Protonym: Crematogaster elegans
Authorship Smith, 1859a: 149
Forms w.
Bioregion Indomalaya
Locality INDONESIA (Aru Is)
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Aru Is, “Aru” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM.
Type notes 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 456, cites 2 workers in OXUM; he points out that the two specimens present on the single card represented two separate species. 2) The holotype of Crematogaster elegans is the specimen on the left, the holotype of Crematogaster mimicans Donisthorpe, 1932c is the specimen on the right.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Crematogaster elegans Species Valid Original combination