Crematogaster menilekii

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Crematogaster menilekii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Crematogaster
Species: C. menilekii
Binomial name
Crematogaster menilekii
Forel, 1894

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Specimen Labels

Subspecies

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 5.583333333° to 5.583333333°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: Benin, Ethiopia (type locality), Guinea.

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.
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Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.
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Biology

Castes

Images from AntWeb

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Syntype of Crematogaster menilekii spuriaWorker. Specimen code casent0908533. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Syntype of Crematogaster menilekiiWorker. Specimen code casent0908538. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Syntype of Crematogaster menilekii occidentalisWorker. Specimen code casent0908539. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Syntype of Crematogaster menilekii satanWorker. Specimen code casent0908540. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Crematogaster menilekii satan satanulaWorker. Specimen code casent0908541. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Syntype of Crematogaster menilekii completaWorker. Specimen code casent0912700. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland.
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Syntype of Crematogaster menilekii proserpinaWorker. Specimen code casent0912701. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland.
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Not part of a type seriesWorker. Specimen code casent0912703. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • menilekii. Crematogaster menilekii Forel, 1894b: 97 (w.) ETHIOPIA.
    • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
    • Type-locality: Ethiopia (“Südabessinien”): (no further data) (Ilg).
    • Type-depository: MHNG.
    • [Misspelled as meneliki by Forel, 1913h: 353, Santschi, 1914b: 93, and others.]
    • Combination in C. (Crematogaster): Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 840;
    • combination in C. (Acrocoelia): Emery, 1922e: 147;
    • combination in C. (Crematogaster): Bolton, 1995b: 166.
    • Subspecies of buchneri: Forel, 1916: 411 (in text).
    • Status as species: Emery, 1899a: 500; Mayr, 1902: 293; Santschi, 1913a: 412 (in key); Santschi, 1919h: 87; Emery, 1922e: 147; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 154, 840; Bernard, 1953b: 235; Bolton, 1995b: 157.
    • Distribution: Ethiopia, Guinea.
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus completa, occidentalis, proserpina, satan, spuria, suddensis, viehmeyeri.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Bernard F. 1953. La réserve naturelle intégrale du Mt Nimba. XI. Hyménoptères Formicidae. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 19: 165-270.
  • Santschi F. 1913. Cremastogaster du groupe tricolor-Menileki (Hym. Formicidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1912: 411-414.
  • Soulié J., and L. D. Dicko. 1965. La répartition des genres de fourmis de la tribu des "Cremastogastrini" dans la faune éthiopienne et malgache. Hymenoptera - Formicoidea - Myrmicidae. Ann. Univ. Abidjan Sér. Sci. 1: 85-106.