Crematogaster opuntiae
Buren, 1968
valid
Crematogaster (Crematogaster) opuntiae
Buren, 1968b:
120 (w.)
U.S.A. (Arizona).
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: paratypes 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, 5 mi. S Oracle Junction (W.S. Creighton), paratypes Arizona, nr Papgo Reservation Boundary on Ajo Road (W.F. Buren), paratypes Arizona, Portal (Creighton & Buren), paratypes 30 mi. N Tucson (W.F. Buren), paratypes Arizona, 15 mi. E Globe (W.F. Buren), paratypes Organ Pipe Nat. Mon. (W.F. Buren), paratypes Abra Wash, Organ Pipe Nat. Mon. (W.S. Creighton), paratypes Arizona, Benson, and Tucson (W.M. Wheeler), paratypes 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