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Genus: Crematogaster   Lund, 1831 

Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2021)

Extant: 503 valid species, 270 valid subspecies

Fossil: 3 valid species

Crematogaster Lund, 1831a PDF: 132. Type-species: Formica scutellaris, by subsequent designation of Bingham, 1903 PDF: 124. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

[Notes. (i) The original spelling Crematogaster is used throughout, the incorrect subsequent spelling Cremastogaster is ignored; see catalogue of genus-group names. (ii) The spurious paper by Soulié & Dicko, 1965 PDF: 85, is ignored. This publication merely repeats, inaccurately, the Wheeler, 1922: 828 catalogue of Afrotopical Crematogaster, but treats the subgenera as genera; see catalogue of genus-group names.].
[Type-species not Formica acuta, unjustified subsequent designation by Emery, 1912d PDF: 272; this error repeated in, for example, Emery, 1914b PDF: 39, Arnold, 1920a PDF: 482, Emery, 1922c PDF: 128, Gallardo, 1934b PDF: 4, Soulié, 1965 PDF: 78.].
[Cremastogaster Mayr, 1861 PDF: 74 (and many later authors), incorrect subsequent spelling. Discussions of spelling: Emery, 1912d PDF: 272 (footnote); Wheeler, 1913a PDF: 78; Donisthorpe, 1941f PDF: 36; Buren, 1959 PDF: 125.].
Crematogaster in Poneridae, Myrmicidae: Smith, 1858a PDF: 134.
Crematogaster in Myrmicidae: Smith, 1871a PDF: 329; Cresson, 1887 PDF: 262.
Crematogaster in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1855 PDF: 468 [Myrmicidae]; Smith, 1857a PDF: 75 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1861 PDF: 74 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1865 PDF: 22 [Myrmicidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879 PDF: 464 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 79.
Crematogaster in Myrmicinae, Pheidolini: Emery, 1877b PDF: 81 [Myrmicidae, Pheidolidae].
Genus Crematogaster references
Forel, 1901j PDF: 334 (Subgeneric classification); Forel, 1910a PDF: 6 (Subgeneric classification); Forel, 1911f PDF: 331 (Subgeneric classification); Forel, 1912g PDF: 211 (Subgeneric classification); Forel, 1913l PDF: 1 (Subgeneric classification); Santschi, 1918d PDF: 182 (Subgeneric classification); Santschi, 1928b PDF: 31 (Subgeneric classification); Creighton, 1950a PDF: 1 (Nearctic species revision, key); Buren, 1959 PDF: 91 (Nearctic species revision, key); Brown, 1973b PDF: 161 (Subgeneric classification critique); Johnson, 1988: 330 (Eastern U. S. species key); Ogata, 1991b PDF: 124 (Japan male diagnosis); Hosoishi & Ogata, 2008 PDF: 1 (Indochinese Physocrema revision, key to species); Hosoishi & Ogata, 2009a PDF: 15 (Asian Physocrema revision, key to species); Longino, 2003a PDF: 1 (Costa Rica species key); Blaimer, 2010 PDF: 1 (Malagasy Decacrema); Blaimer, 2012b PDF: 23 (Malagasy Orthrocrema); Blaimer, 2012a PDF: 240 (Malagasy Oxygyne); Blaimer, 2012c PDF: 46 (Subgeneric revision, subgenera key); Blaimer, 2012d PDF: 421 (Global phylogeny, biogeography); Hosoishi & Ogata, 2012 PDF: 18 (Asian brevis complex revision, key to species); Blaimer & Fisher, 2013b PDF (Malagasy region subgenera and species-group key; degeeri-assemblage species revision, diagnosis, key); Salata & Borowiec, 2015a PDF: 75 (north-eastern Mediterranean Basin species key); Hosoishi, 2015 PDF (Asian ranavalonae-group species revision, diagnosis, key); Hosoishi & Ogata, 2014 PDF: 61 (Crematogaster fraxatrix-group species key); Hosoishi & Ogata, 2015a PDF: 7 (Crematogaster popohana-group key); Feldhaar et al., 2016 10.13102/sociobiology.v63i1.949 PDF: 651: (Crematogaster borneensis-group revision, key); Hosoishi & Ogata, 2016a 10.1111/zoj.12330 PDF: 547: (Crematogaster (Orthocrema)-group revision, key); Cantone, 2017 PDF: 195 (brief male diagnosis); Hosoishi & Ogata, 2017 10.5852/ejt.2017.370 PDF: 6 (khmerensis-group revision, key); Hosoishi & Ogata, 2019 10.6620/ZS.2019.58-11 PDF: 6 (Crematogaster rothneyi group species key); Sharaf et al., 2019 10.3897/zookeys.898.37531 PDF: 31 (Arabian species key); Fernández & Serna, 2019 PDF: 822 (Colombia); ; Pedraza & Fernández, 2019 PDF: 891 (Colombia species key); Hosoishi, 2020 10.26107/RBZ-2020-0087 PDF: 760 (Crematogaster ransonneti-group key).

Taxon Page Images:



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

Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Africa: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grande Glorieuse, Guinea, Ile du Lys, Ivory Coast, Juan de Nova Island, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macaronesia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
    Americas: Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Galapagos Islands, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, United States Virgin Islands, Uruguay, Venezuela
    Asia: Afghanistan, Borneo, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nicobar Island, Oman, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
    Europe: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, Montenegro, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom
    Oceania: Australia, Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Malagasy, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oceania, Palearctic
  Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records):
    Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Malagasy, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oceania, Palearctic

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)

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Crematogaster   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 33, (download) 33 21367
Crematogaster   Longino, J. T., 2003, The Crematogaster (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) of Costa Rica., Zootaxa 151, pp. 1-150: 22-25, (download) 22-25 20256
Crematogaster   Longino, J. T., 2003, The Crematogaster (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) of Costa Rica., Zootaxa 151, pp. 1-150: 130, (download) 130 20256
Crematogaster   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 33, (download) 33 21367
Crematogaster   Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum: 134-135, (download) 134-135 8127
Crematogaster   Longino, J. T., 2003, The Crematogaster (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) of Costa Rica., Zootaxa 151, pp. 1-150: 18-20, (download) 18-20 20256
Crematogaster   Longino, J. T., 2003, The Crematogaster (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) of Costa Rica., Zootaxa 151, pp. 1-150: 130, (download) 130 20256
Crematogaster   Mohamed, S., Zalat, S. & Fadl, H., 2001, Taxonomy of ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) collected by pitfall traps from Sinai and Delta region, Egypt., Egyptian Journal of Natural History 3, pp. 40-61: 50, (download) 50 21622
Crematogaster   Longino, J. T., 2003, The Crematogaster (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) of Costa Rica., Zootaxa 151, pp. 1-150: 3, (download) 3 20256
Crematogaster   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: 32, (download) 32 21008
Crematogaster   Longino, J. T., 2003, The Crematogaster (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) of Costa Rica., Zootaxa 151, pp. 1-150: 25-29, (download) 25-29 20256
Crematogaster   Longino, J. T., 2003, The Crematogaster (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) of Costa Rica., Zootaxa 151, pp. 1-150: 4-7, (download) 4-7 20256
Crematogaster   Wheeler, W. M., 1922, The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45, pp. 39-269: 150-151, (download) 150-151 20597
Crematogaster   Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8, pp. 1-174: 66, (download) 66 6175


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