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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.

Afrotropical Region: Angola, Anseba, Ashanti, Bas Congo, Benin, Botswana, Cabo Delgado, Cameroon, Cape, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eastern Cape, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Gabon, Gambia, Gauteng, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kabarole, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Leribe, Lesotho, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Ogooue-Maritime, Prefecture Sangha-Mbaéré, Rift Valley, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sud-Ouest, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Western Cape, Woleu-Ntem, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Australasia Region: Barrow Island, Central, East Sepik, Guadalcanal, Gulf, Madang, Makira-Ulawa, Maluku, Maluku Utara, Milne Bay, Morobe, New Britain, New Guinea, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Papua New Guinea, Queensland, San Cristobal, Sandaun, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Victoria, Western, Western Australia
Indomalaya Region: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Central Java, Chaiyaphum, Chiang Mai, East Kalimantan, Himachal Pradesh, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Irian Jaya, Java, Jiangxi, Johor, Kachin, Kampong Thom, Krakatau Islands, Lampung, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Malacca, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nantou, Nepal, North Sumatra, Pahang, Perak, Philippines, Punjab, Sabah, Sarawak, Selangor, Sikkim, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi Selatan, Sumatra, Taiwan, Tamil Nadu, Thailand, Uttarakhand, Vietnam, West Bengal, West Java, West Papua, West Sumatra, Yunnan
Malagasy Region: Anjouan, Antananarivo, Antsiranana, Comoros, Diego-Suarez, Fianarantsoa, Grande Comore, Juan de Nova Island, Madagascar, Mahajanga, Majunga, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mohéli, Seychelles, Toamasina, Toliara, Tulear
Nearctic Region: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Baja California, Baja California Sur, California, Chihuahua, Colorado, Durango, Florida, Georgia, Hidalgo, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Nuevo Leon, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Sonora, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin
Neotropical Region: Acre, Ahuachapán, Alajuela, Amambay, Amapá, Amazonas, Antioquia, Aragua, Argentina, Atlántico, Atlántico Sur, Atlántida, Bahamas, Bahia, Baja California Norte, Barbados, Barinas, Basse Terre, Basse-Terre, Belize, Beni, Bolivia, Boquerón, Brazil, Buenos Aires, Caaguazú, Canal Zone, Canindeyú, Caquetá, Cartago, Casanare, Catamarca, Cauca, Cayenne, Ceará, Cesar, Chaco, Chiapas, Chile, Chimaltenango, Chiriquí, Chocó, Chontales, Cocle, Cojedes, Colombia, Comayagua, Concepcion, Cordillera, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cundinamarca, Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Cuzco, Demerara, Distrito Federal, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Progreso, El Salvador, Escuintla, Espírito Santo, Federal District, Formosa, Francisco Morazán, French Guiana, Galapagos Islands, Gracias a Dios, Granada, Grande-Terre, Granma, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guajira, Guanacaste, Guatemala, Guayas, Guerrero, Guyana, Haiti, Heredia, Honduras, Huila, Huánuco, Isla San Andres, Islas de la Bahía, Izabal, Jalisco, Jamaica, Jinotega, Jujuy, La Libertad, La Paz, La Unión, Lambayeque, Lara, Lempira, Limón, Loreto, Los Rios, Madre de Dios, Magdalena, Manchester, Maria Trinidad Sanchez, Martinique, Matagalpa, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mazaruni-Potaro, Meta, Michoacan, Minas Gerais, Miranda, Misiones, Morelos, Napo, Nayarit, Neembucú, Nicaragua, Nueva Segovia, Oaxaca, Olancho, Orellana, Panama, Panamá, Panamá Oeste, Pando, Paraguay, Paraiba, Paraná, Pasco, Pastaza, Pedernales, Peravia, Pernambuco, Peru, Petén, Pichincha, Portland, Portuguesa, Potaro-Siparuni, Pte Hayes, Puerto Rico, Puntarenas, Putumayo, Quetzaltenango, Quintana Roo, Región Autónoma del Atlántico Norte, Región Autónoma del Atlántico Sur, Retalhuleu, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Risaralda, Rondônia, Rupununi, Sacatepéquez, Saint Andrew, Saint Ann, Saint Elizabeth, Saint James, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Salta, San José, San Luis, San Salvador, Santa Catarina, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santander, Santiago de Cuba, Santiago del Estero, Sinaloa, Sololá, Sonsonate, Suchitepéquez, Suriname, Tabasco, Tachira, Tamaulipas, Tolima, Trelawny, Trinidad and Tobago, Trujillo, Tucumán, United States Virgin Islands, Uruguay, Usulután, Valle, Valle de Cauca, Vargas, Venezuela, Veracruz, Villa Clara, West Demerara, Westmorland, Zacapa
Oceania Region: Guam, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands, Pohnpei
Palearctic Region: Aegean Islands, Afghanistan, Akita, Al Bahah, Albania, Algeria, Alicante, Andalusia, Andorra, Antalya, Ar Riyad, Armenia, Attica, Austria, Baleares, Balearic Islands, Barcelona, Blagoevgrad province, Blida, Bulgaria, Burgas, Campania, Canary Islands, Catalonia, Central Greece, China, Corsica, Crete, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Dobrich, Dodecanese, Egypt, Estremadura, Faro, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Huelva, Hungary, Hyogo, Ionian Islands, Iran, Iraq, Isfahan, Israel, Italy, Iwate, Japan, Kairouan, Kazakhstan, Kerman, Kyrgyzstan, Languedoc-Roussillon, Lazio, Lebanon, Libya, Liguria, Macaronesia, Macedonia, Malta, Mazandaran, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Murcia, Nara, Netherlands, Niigata, North Korea, Oman, Palestine, Paphos, Peloponnese, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Tyrol, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Thessaly, Toscana, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Umbria, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Vidin, Wakayama, Western Sahara, Yemen

Biology:

Notes:

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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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