The Ants of Africa
Genus Crematogaster
Crematogaster (Orthocrema) dolens Forel

Crematogaster (Orthocrema) dolens Forel

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Tanzania (Cremastogaster dolens n. sp., Forel, 1910e: 433, worker) Zanzibar, Völtzkow

Worker only described (see Bolton, 1995).

Forel's (1910e) description is at {original description}.

In his definition of Crematogaster (Orthocrema) pauciseta r. grossulior, Forel (1916: 404) noted that dolens was hardly more than a race of pauciseta

{Crematogaster dolens}The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0908358.

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