Protonym: Crematogaster (Crematogaster) opuntiae
Authorship Buren, 1968b: 120
Forms w.
Bioregion Nearctic
Locality U.S.A. (Arizona, New Mexico)
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: “several series” 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, Sill (W.F. Buren), paratypes Arizona, 5 mi. S Oracle Junction (W.S. Creighton), paratypes Arizona, nr Papago Reservation Boundary on Ajo Road (W.F. Buren), paratypes Arizona, Portal (W.S. Creighton & W.F. Buren), paratypes Arizona, 30 mi. N Tucson (W.F. Buren), paratypes Arizona, 15 mi. E Globe (W.F. Buren), paratypes Arizona, Organ Pipe Nat. Monument (W.F. Buren), paratypes Arizona, Abra Wash, Organ Pipe Nat. Monument (W.S. Creighton), paratypes Arizona, Benson (W.M. Wheeler), paratypes Arizona, Tucson (W.M. Wheeler), paratypes U.S.A.: 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).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
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