| Authorship |
Ward & Blaimer, 2022:
927, fig. 14
|
| Forms |
w. |
| Bioregion |
Nearctic |
| Locality |
U.S.A. (Arizona) |
| Etymology |
The name refers to the position of this species in a lineage (containing one other known species) that is sister to all other members of the Crematogaster depilis complex, from Latin vetustus, old or antiquated. |
| Primary type information |
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Arizona, Cochise County, 11 km NNW Portal, 1430 m, 32.00293 −109.18198 ± 3 m, 8.viii.2011, ground forager, Chihuahuan desert, PSW16646 (P.S. Ward). Primary type depository: USNM. Primary type specimen: CASENT0863254. |
| Secondary type information |
Secondary type material: 5 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: CASC, MCZC, UCDC. Secondary type specimens: CASENT0221037, CASENT0863251, CASENT0863252, CASENT0863253, CASENT0863255. |
