Crematogaster (Crem.) laestrygon Emery
 Type location Sicily
(Cremastogaster laestrygon,
Halid. in litt., Emery,
1869a: 1, worker; Baroni Urbani, 1964b: 43, queen) - see below
junior
synonym vaucheri (Crematogaster auberti st laestrygon
var vaucheri, Santschi, 1921d: 71; as ssp, Emery, 1926: 2,
worker; synonymy by Collingwood, 1978: 69) from Morocco - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?name=casent0912690
subspecies
airensis (Crematogaster laestrygon st airensis,
Santschi, 1937e: 309, worker & male) from Niger - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0912694
atlantis (Crematogaster laestrygon var atlantis,
Santschi, 1937e:
306, all forms) from Algeria - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0908477
canariensis (Crematogaster
laestrygon ssp maura var canariensis, Emery, 1926:
3; Crematogaster laestrygon ssp canariensis, Barquin,
1981: 146, worker) from Canary Is - no images on Antweb (March
2015)
diminuta (Crematogaster laestrygon var diminuta,
Santschi, 1910a: 43, worker) from Tunisia - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0912695
granulata (Crematogaster laestrygon var granulata,
Santschi, 1910a: 43, worker) from Tunisia - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0912696
maura (Crematogaster auberti r laestrygon
var maura, Forel, 1894d: 25; Crematogaster
auberti var maura, Forel, 1909c: 104, worker) from Algeria
- see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0908478
striaticeps (Crematogaster auberti r laestrygon
var striaticeps, Forel, 1902g: 462; Crematogaster laestrygon
var striaticeps, Forel, 1909c: 104, worker) from Algeria
- see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0908479
submaura (Crematogaster laestrygon var submaura,
Lomnicki, 1925b: 1) from the Balearic Is. - no images on
Antweb (March 2015).
theryi (Crematogaster auberti st theryi,
Santschi, 1921d: 71, worker; Santschi,
1937e: 309, queen) from Morocco - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0912697
unavailable name vivax
(Crematogaster auberti st laestrygon var vivax,
Santschi, 1929e: 149, worker) from Morocco - no images on Antweb (March 2015).
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 Egypt records
- Mohammed (1979) stated that "Storey
(1912) mentioned that species is found in Suez road" [Storey, G.B.A.
(1912) List of the Hymenoptera Tubulifera and Aculeata
in the collection of the Ministry of Agriculture of Egypt. Bull.Soc.Ent.Egypte,
3:102-103].
The photomontages are of major and minor workers from Israel,
sent to BT by Armin Ionescu, Tel Aviv University.
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Emery's (1869b)
description is at 
Santschi (1937e: 301) distinguished the laestrygon-groups
of species by their having a low convexity to the mesonotum; compared
to the more convex 
The
photomontage of a type worker is collated from 
Minor