Crematogaster rifelna
Buren, 1968
valid
Crematogaster (Crematogaster) rifelna
Buren, 1968b:
96 (w.q.m.)
U.S.A. (Texas).
Nearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Texas, a few mi. S Riviera (W.F. Buren). Primary type depository: LACM. Primary type specimen: LACMENT164556.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 45 paratype workers, 10 paratype queens, 4 paratype males. Secondary type localities: paratypes with same data as holotype, paratypes (number not stated) U.S.A.: Texas, Victoria, Barroso, Riviera, Harlingden, and Brownsville (W.F. Buren), paratypes Texas, Victoria (J.D. Mitchell), paratypes Texas, Gambel Creek (W.S. Creighton), paratypes Mexico: Mirador, in Tillandsia streptophylla (no collector’s name), paratypes Mexico: Tamaulipas, Valles, San Luis Potosi, and Ciudad Victoria (W.S. Creighton). Secondary type depositories: AMNH, CASC, 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.
- Status as species: Kempf, 1972b: 82; Smith, 1979: 1380; Bolton, 1995b: 161; Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 344 (redescription); Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 902.
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
- Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. 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.
- 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