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Figure 1. Upper row: Habitat of Macaranga bancana trees (white arrow, with trilobed leaves), middle row left: stem full with large larvae and pupae and alate females of Crematogaster captiosa, right: opened stem of Macaranga winkleri, alate female of C. sp. 8. (photo E. Linsenmair); lower row (left to right): colonisation of Macaranga bancana by C. captiosa at nighttime; colonising queen of C. sp. 8 on Macaranga winkleri at daytime (photo E. Linsenmair); colonising queen of Crematogaster linsenmairi on Macaranga pearsonii, plant pith from the interior which is later used to seal the entrance hole is visible on the stem surface.

• Fiala, B., Hashim, R.B., Dumpert, K., Maschwitz, U. 2017. Nuptial flight of the Southeast Asian plant-ant Crematogaster captiosa (Forel, 1911) and the phenology of colony founding. Asian Myrmecology 9: e009013 (DOI 10.20362/am.009013).