Crematogaster nigriceps

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Crematogaster nigriceps Emery, 1897 valid

Crematogaster nigriceps Emery, 1897f: 600, fig. (w.) SOMALIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: Somalia: Banas (E. dei P. Ruspoli) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 842; no lectotype designated), Ethiopia: Hauacio (E. dei P. Ruspoli). Primary type depository: MSNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0904510.

Viehmeyer, 1923: 89 (q.m.)
Combination in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Wheeler, 1922: 842.
Combination in Crematogaster (Acrocoelia): Emery, 1922c: 148.
Combination in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Blaimer, 2012c: 55.
Subspecies of Crematogaster auberti: Finzi, 1940: 160.
Status as species: Emery, 1922c: 148; Wheeler, 1922: 842; Viehmeyer, 1923: 89; Menozzi & Consani, 1952: 65; Bolton, 1995b: 158; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 211; Borowiec, 2014: 67 (see note in bibliography).

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

C. n. prelli Forel, 1911
C. n. saganensis Consani, 1952

Citations

Blaimer, B. B. 2012c. A subgeneric revision of Crematogaster and discussion of regional species-groups (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3482:47-67. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
Emery, C. 1897f. Formiche raccolte da Don Eugenio dei Principi Ruspoli, durante l'ultimo suo viaggio nelle regioni dei Somali e dei Galla. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 38[=(2)18]:595-605. PDF
Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
Finzi, B. 1940 ("1939"). Formiche della Libia. Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 18:155-166. PDF
Hita Garcia, F.; Wiesel, E.; Fischer, G. 2013. The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History 101 (2):127-222. PDF
Menozzi, C.; Consani, M. 1952. Missione biologica Sagan-Omo diretta dal Prof. E. Zavattari. Hymenoptera Formicidae. Rivista di Biologia Coloniale 11:57-71. PDF
Viehmeyer, H. 1923. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der mit Unterstützung der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien aus der Erbschaft Treitl von F. Werner unternommenen zoologischen Expedition nach dem anglo-ägyptischen Sudan (Kordofan) 1914. VII. Hymenoptera A. Formicidae. Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 98:83-94. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

Extant: 2 valid subspecies

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