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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

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Alarm posture in a Crematogaster emeryana acrobat ant, gaster held high and sting extruded. Crematogaster ants do not actually use their stinger to sting; rather, the organ is instead employed as a brush to broadcast volatile chemical signals to nestmates and to smear defensive chemicals on attackers. Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, USA.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

   Genus is native to: Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Malagasy, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oceania, Palearctic bioregions (based on species list records).

Afrotropical Region: Africa, Angola, Ashanti, Benin, Botswana, Cabo Delgado, Cameroon, Central, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eastern Africa, Eastern Cape, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Gabon, Gambia, Gauteng, Ghana, Guinea, Haut-Katanga, Ivory Coast, Kabarole, Kakamega, Kenya, Kongo Central, KwaZulu-Natal, Laikipia, Leribe, Lesotho, Liberia, Mali, Middle Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Ogooué-Maritime, Sangha-Mbaéré, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, South-West, Southern Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tshopo, Uganda, Western Africa, Western Cape, Woleu-Ntem, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ānseba
Australasia Region: Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Barrow Island, Central, East New Britain, East Sepik, Guadalcanal, Gulf, Madang, Makira-Ulawa, Maluku, Maluku Utara, Milne Bay, Morobe, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Oceania, Papua, Papua Barat, Papua New Guinea, Queensland, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Victoria, West Sepik, Western, Western Australia
Indomalaya Region: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Asia, Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Brunei, Cambodia, Central, Chaiyaphum, Chiang Mai, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Jawa Barat, Jawa Tengah, Jiangxi, Johor, Kachin, Kalimantan Timur, Kampong Thom, Krakatau Islands, Lampung, Laos, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Malaysia, Melaka, Myanmar, Nantou, Nepal, Nicobar Island, Pahang, Perak, Philippines, Punjab, Sabah, Sarawak, Selangor, Sikkim, Singapore, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi Selatan, Sumatera Barat, Sumatera Utara, Taiwan, Tamil Nadu, Thailand, Uttarakhand, Vietnam, West Bengal, Yunnan
Malagasy Region: Anjouan, Antananarivo, Antsiranana, Comoros, Fianarantsoa, Grande Comore, Juan de Nova Island, Madagascar, Mahajanga, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mohéli, Seychelles, Toamasina, Toliara
Nearctic Region: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Baja California, Baja California Sur, California, Canada, Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Colorado, Connecticut, Durango, Florida, Georgia, Hidalgo, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North America, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Nuevo León, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, United States, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, Zacatecas
Neotropical Region: Acre, Ahuachapán, Alajuela, Amambay, Amapá, Amazonas, Amazonas, Americas, Antioquia, Anzoátegui, Aragua, Argentina, Aruba, Asunción, Atlántico, Atlántida, Bahamas, Bahia, Barbados, Barinas, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Bolívar, Boquerón, Brazil, Brokopondo, Buenos Aires, Caaguazú, Canindeyú, Caquetá, Caribbean, Cartago, Casanare, Catamarca, Cauca, Ceará, Central, Central America, Cesar, Chaco, Chiapas, Chile, Chimaltenango, Chiriquí, Chocó, Chontales, Ciudad de México, Coclé, Cojedes, Colombia, Colón, Comayagua, Concepción, Cordillera, Cortés, Costa Caribe Norte, Costa Caribe Sur, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cundinamarca, Cusco, Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Córdoba, Darién, Demerara-Mahaica, Distrito Federal, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Beni, El Progreso, El Salvador, Escuintla, Espírito Santo, Formosa, Francisco Morazán, French Guiana, Galapagos Islands, Galápagos, Goiás, Gracias a Dios, Granada, Granma, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guairá, Guanacaste, Guatemala, Guatemala, Guayas, Guerrero, Guyana, Guárico, Haiti, Heredia, Honduras, Huila, Huánuco, Islas de la Bahía, Izabal, Jalisco, Jamaica, Jinotega, Jujuy, Junin, La Guajira, La Libertad, La Paz, La Paz, La Unión, Lambayeque, Lara, Lempira, Limón, Loreto, Los Ríos, Madre de Dios, Magdalena, Manchester, Martinique, María Trinidad Sánchez, Matagalpa, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Meta, Mexico, Michoacán de Ocampo, Minas Gerais, Miranda, Misiones, Misiones, Morelos, Nacional, Napo, Nayarit, Nicaragua, Nueva Segovia, Oaxaca, Olancho, Orellana, Panama, Panamá, Panamá Oeste, Pando, Para, Paraguay, Paraná, Paraíba, Pará, Pasco, Pastaza, Pedernales, Peravia, Pernambuco, Peru, Petén, Pichincha, Portland, Portuguesa, Potaro-Siparuni, Presidente Hayes, Puerto Rico, Puntarenas, Putumayo, Quetzaltenango, Quintana Roo, Retalhuleu, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Risaralda, Rondônia, Sacatepéquez, Saint Andrew, Saint Ann, Saint Elizabeth, Saint James, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Salta, San Andres y Providencia, San Cristóbal, San José, San Luis, San Martín, San Salvador, Santa Catarina, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santander, Santiago de Cuba, Santiago del Estero, Sinaloa, Sololá, Sonsonate, South America, Suchitepéquez, Suriname, São Paulo, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tolima, Trelawny, Trinidad and Tobago, Trujillo, Tucumán, Táchira, United States Virgin Islands, Uruguay, Usulután, Valle del Cauca, Vargas, Venezuela, Veracruz, Villa Clara, Westmoreland, Yucatán, Zacapa, Ñeembucú
Oceania Region: Guam, Marshall Islands, Melanesia, Micronesia, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands, Pohnpei
Palearctic Region: Afghanistan, Akita, Al Bahah, Al Ḩudaydah, Albania, Algeria, Alicante, Andalusia, Andorra, Antalya, Ar Riyad, Armenia, Attikí, Austria, Balearic Islands, Balearic Islands, Blagoevgrad, Blida, Bulgaria, Burgas, Campania, Canary Islands, Catalonia, Central Asia, China, Corsica, Crete, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Dobrich, Drâa-Tafilalet, Dubrovačko-Neretvanska, Eastern Asia, Eastern Europe, Egypt, Europe, Eşfahān, Faro, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Himachal Pradesh, Hungary, Hyōgo, Ionía Nísia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Iwate, Japan, Kairouan, Kazakhstan, Kentrikí Makedonía, Kermān, Kyrgyzstan, Lazio, Lebanon, Libya, Liguria, Macaronesia, Macedonia, Madrid, Malta, Marrakech-Safi, Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Murcia, Māzandarān, Nara, Netherlands, Niigata, North Korea, Northern Africa, Northern Europe, Okayama, Oman, Pafos, Palestine, Peloponnísos, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Sicilia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Southern Europe, Spain, Stereá Elláda, Switzerland, Syria, Tadla-Azilal, Thessalía, Toscana, Trentino-Alto Adige, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Umbria, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Valencia, Vidin, Wakayama, Western Asia, Western Europe, Yemen

Biology:

Notes:

Visit the Crematogaster of MADAGASCAR page.

References:

For the most recent Nearctic revision of Crematogaster, see: Buren, W. F. 1959. A review of the species of Crematogaster, sensu stricto, in North America (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Part I. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 66: 119-134. (Online at http://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/manage_lit.list_pubs?author=Buren)

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