Crematogaster luctans
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| Crematogaster luctans | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Crematogaster |
| Species: | C. luctans |
| Binomial name | |
| Crematogaster luctans Forel, 1907
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Contents
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Eritrea, Kenya (type locality), Sierra Leone.
Palaearctic Region: Iraq.
This species occurs in Tropical Africa and Saudi Arabia to Iraq (Abdul-Rassoul et al. 2013).
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
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Biology
Association with Other Organisms
This species is a host for the encyrtid wasp Anagyrus lopezi (a parasite) (Universal Chalcidoidea Database) (associate).
Castes
- The following images are provided by AntWeb
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's New General Catalogue, a catalogue of the world's ants.
- luctans. Crematogaster luctans Forel, 1907a: 22 (w.q.) KENYA. Combination in C. (Sphaerocrema): Santschi, 1918d: 182. Current subspecies: nominal plus liebknechti, sordidoides.
Description
References
- Abdul-Rassoul, M.S., Ali, H.B. & Augul, R.SH. 2013. New Records of Unidentified Ants worker (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) stored in Iraqi Natural History Museum with key to Species. Adv. Biores., Vol 4 (2): 27-33.
- Forel, A. 1907d. Formicides du Musée National Hongrois. Ann. Hist.-Nat. Mus. Natl. Hung. 5: 1-42 (page 22, worker, queen described)
- Santschi, F. 1918d. Sous-genres et synoymies [sic] de Cremastogaster (Hym. Formic.). Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 1918: 182-185 (page 182, Combination in C. (Sphaerocrema))
