Crematogaster (Atopogyne) cuvierae Donisthorpe
  Type location Ghana (Crematogaster
(Atopogyne) cuvierae sp. n., Donisthorpe,
1945a: 10, worker) collected at Asuansi, 8.ix.1943, by H.E. Box - see below
worker
only described (see Bolton, 1995)  .
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 Donisthorpe's
(1945a) description is at  .
WORKER - TL 3.0 mm. Propodeal dorsum on lower level than
mesonotum in lateral view but metanotal groove not impressed (from
Bolton's unpublished key to species at CRIN; Bolton gave no record of
any collection). The description by Donisthorpe (1945a, not
illustrated) is poor by modern standards with no measurements other
than TL. He described it as - black or blackish-brown; appendages dirty
brownish yellow, tip of antenna yellow; pilosity of short
yellowish-white decumbent hairs and a few longer standing yellow hairs;
sculpture very finely and almost imperceptibly striate.
Taken by Box from myrmecodomatia on leaf petioles of the
plant Cuviera aeratifolia. Also from hollow stems (domatia) of
young Canthium glabrifolium, at Bunsu, by Box, xi.1944
(Donisthorpe, 1945b). Listed by Strickland (1948, 1951a) as being taken
once on cocoa, at Asuansi, in western Ghana.
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 The
photomontage is of the holotype worker; collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0902069.
My earlier feeling was that this was no more than a
small
worker of Crematogaster
depressa - especially see the Ghana worker on the linked page.
However, the fresh specimens from Liberia and Cameroun
support Donisthorpe's view that this is a separate species but what he
described from a single collection of four workers was only the media
worker..
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Oxford University Museum
specimens
Crematogaster (Atopogyne) cuvierae
B Taylor det.
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Liberia
E Poirier
Yekepa Camp 4
SLAM 3
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6.iv.2013
Nimba County
07°33’04" N
08°33’17" E
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SLAM trap
Floodplain & marsh
501 m asl
minor
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1
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Crematogaster (Atopogyne) cuvierae
B Taylor det.
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Liberia
E Poirier
Yekepa
PF 14
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29.iii.2013
Nimba County
07°33’38" N
08°32’33" E
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Pitfall trap
Degraded secondary forest
518 m asl
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3
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Crematogaster (Atopogyne) cuvierae
B Taylor det.
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Cameroun
A Fotso Kuate
Crematogaster sp23
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28.ix.2007
Boga
03°54'30" N
11°25'58" E
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Quadrat in forest
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1
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Crematogaster (Atopogyne) cuvierae
B Taylor det.
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Ghana
S Sky Stephens
06G0070
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2006
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In personal
collection of S Sky Stephens
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1
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 The
photomontage is of a major worker from Liberia; collector E
Poiriet (Yekepa PF XIV).
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 The
photomontage is of a media worker from Liberia; collector E
Poiriet (Yekepa PF XIV).
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 The
photomontage is of a minor worker from Liberia; collector E
Poiriet (Yekepa PF XIV).
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 The
photomontage is of a worker from Ghana, collected by S Sky
Stephens, 2006. This is rather larger than described by
Donisthorpe but, given the common size range in workers of the
subgenus, the overall characteristics suggest it is cuvierae.
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 The
photomontage is of a worker from Cameroun,
Boga; collector A Fotso Kuate (fk sp 23)
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