Crematogaster opuntiae

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

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Crematogaster opuntiae Buren, 1968 valid

Crematogaster (Crematogaster) opuntiae Buren, 1968b: 120 (w.) U.S.A. (Arizona, New Mexico). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Arizona, Santa Rita Experimental Range, nr Continental (W.F. Buren). Primary type depository: LACM. Primary type specimen: LACMENT164544. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type localities: “several series” with same data as holotype, paratypes Arizona, 10 mi. E Benson (W.F. Buren), paratypes Arizona, E Benson, Texas Canyon (W.F. Buren), paratypes Arizona, 50 mi. E Ajo, on Ajo Road (W.F. Buren), paratypes Arizona, Saguaro National Monument, E Tucson (W.F. Buren), paratypes Arizona, Sill (W.F. Buren), paratypes Arizona, 5 mi. S Oracle Junction (W.S. Creighton), paratypes Arizona, nr Papago Reservation Boundary on Ajo Road (W.F. Buren), paratypes Arizona, Portal (W.S. Creighton & W.F. Buren), paratypes Arizona, 30 mi. N Tucson (W.F. Buren), paratypes Arizona, 15 mi. E Globe (W.F. Buren), paratypes Arizona, Organ Pipe Nat. Monument (W.F. Buren), paratypes Arizona, Abra Wash, Organ Pipe Nat. Monument (W.S. Creighton), paratypes Arizona, Benson (W.M. Wheeler), paratypes Arizona, Tucson (W.M. Wheeler), paratypes U.S.A.: New Mexico, on route 89 close to Arizona border (W.F. Buren). Secondary type depositories: LACM, MCZC, USNM. Type notes: Holotype depository LACM, not USNM (Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 930).

Combination in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Blaimer, 2012c: 55; Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 902.
Junior synonym of Crematogaster vermiculata: Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 396.
Status as species: Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 21; Smith, 1979: 1380; Snelling & George, 1979: 126; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 49; Bolton, 1995b: 159; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 99; Ward, 2005: 65; Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 919.

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.
Buren, W. F. 1968b. A review of the species of Crematogaster, sensu stricto, in North America (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Part II. Descriptions of new species. Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society 3:91-121. PDF
Hunt, J. H.; Snelling, R. R. 1975. A checklist of the ants of Arizona. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science 10:20-23. PDF
Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2002. The ants of New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 400 pp. PDF
Morgan, C. E.; Mackay, W. P. 2017. The North America acrobat ants of the hyperdiverse genus Crematogaster. Balti, Moldova: Lambert Academic Publishing, 532 pp. PDF
Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
Snelling, R. R.; George, C. D. 1979. The taxonomy, distribution and ecology of California desert ants. Report to California Desert Plan Program, Bureau of Land Management. Riverside: U.S. Dept. Interior, 335 + 89 pp.
Ward, P. S. 2005. A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 936:1-68. PDF
Ward, P. S.; Blaimer, B. B. 2022. Taxonomy in the phylogenomic era: species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships among North American ants of the Crematogaster scutellaris group (Formicidae: Hymenoptera). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194:893-937. PDF
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1986g. The ants of Nevada. Los Angeles: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, vii + 138 pp. PDF

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