Crematogaster (Crematogaster) oasium (Santschi)

Type location Tunisia (Cremastogaster Auberti Em. stirps oasium n. st., Santschi, 1911f: 84, worker; raised to species Santschi, 1937e: 303, queen; Bernard, 1953a: 156, male; see Collingwood, 1985: 261) Tozeur, M Aumont, 1909 - see below
junior synonym (here)
airensis (Crematogaster laestrygon st airensis, Santschi, 1937e: 309, worker & male) from Niger - see below

Santschi's (1911f) description is at . Santschi's (1937e) further description is at . Santschi's (1937e) description of airensis is at .
Collingwood (1985) noted it is a pale, rather shining species with very short propodeal spines; and occurs on the fringes of the North African deserts - the colour according to Santschi, however, is black, a little brownish (as confirmed by the type specimen below).

Egypt records - in Donisthorpe (1942a), 22 workers from Siwa, Kamissa & Bahrein, collector J Omer-Cooper, June-August 1935.

The photomontage of the type worker from Tunisia is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0249820
Note: the head scale on the antweb image is clearly wrong, I have added a scale from the body views.

The photomontage of the airensis type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0912694
This may be a separate species.

See also http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0912694