Crematogaster wilwerthi

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

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Crematogaster wilwerthi Santschi, 1910 valid

Crematogaster wilwerthi Santschi, 1910c: 372, fig. 6 (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo (“Congo belge”): Luki (Wilwerth). Primary type depositories: MRAC, NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0912822. Type notes: No indication of number of specimens is given.

[Misspelled as wilverthi by Emery, 1922c: 153.]
[Misspelled as wilwerti by Santschi, 1926b: 228; Menozzi, 1942a: 169.]
Combination in Crematogaster (Sphaerocrema): Wheeler, 1922: 849
Combination in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Blaimer, 2012c: 55.
Status as species: Emery, 1922c: 153; Wheeler, 1922: 849; Santschi, 1926b: 228; Menozzi, 1942a: 169; Bolton, 1995b: 165.

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

C. w. confusa Santschi, 1911
C. w. fauconneti Forel, 1910

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.
Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
Menozzi, C. 1942a. Formiche dell'isola Fernando Poo e del territorio del Rio Muni (Guinea Spagnola). 24. Beitrag zu den wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen der Forschungsreise H. Eidmann nach Spanisch-Guinea 1939 bis 1940. Zoologischer Anzeiger 140:164-182. PDF
Santschi, F. 1910c ("1909"). Formicides nouveaux ou peu connus du Congo français. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 78:349-400. PDF
Santschi, F. 1926b. Description de nouveaux Formicides éthiopiens (IIIme partie). Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 13:207-267. 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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