Crematogaster ransonneti
Mayr, 1868
valid
Crematogaster ransonneti
Mayr, 1868d:
287 (w.)
SRI LANKA.
Indomalaya.
Primary type information:
Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated). Type-locality: Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): SE of Nieuera-Ellia (= Nuwara Eliya), 5000 ft (von Ransonnet). Type-depository: NHMW.
Type notes:
Hosoishi, 2020: 767, incorrectly cites as syntypes 2 workers Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): (no further data) (Yerbury).
- [Misspelled as ransoneti by Emery, 1893h: 243.]
- Combination in Crematogaster (Acrocoelia): Emery, 1922c: 151.
- Combination in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Bolton, 1995b: 166; Blaimer, 2012c: 55.
- Status as species: Mayr, 1879: 680 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 84; Emery, 1893h: 243; Forel, 1903a: 683; Bingham, 1903: 137; Forel, 1906b: 89; Forel, 1908b: 2; Emery, 1922c: 151; Menozzi, 1939a: 301 (in key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 93; Bolton, 1995b: 161; Tiwari, 1999: 46; Bharti et al., 2016: 36; Dias et al., 2020: 71; Hosoishi, 2020: 767 (redescription).
Citations
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- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
- Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
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