The Ants of Africa
Genus Crematogaster
Crematogaster (Crematogaster) flaviventris Santschi - revived status

Crematogaster (Crematogaster) flaviventris Santschi - revived status

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Zaïre (Crematogaster flaviventris n. sp., Santschi, 1910c: 370, all forms) collected at Sankuru, by Luja - see below. .


Crematogaster flaviventrisSantschi's description (1910c) of flaviventris and analis is at {original description}


junior synonyms (here) - click images for full views


analis (Crematogaster flaviventris var. analis nov., Santschi, 1910c: 370, worker) from Brazzaville, collector Weiss, nesting in cavities on certain shrubs. See above for Santschi's description - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0912647 Crematogaster analis
Congo
mossamedana (Crematogaster (Acrocoelia) castanea Sm. st. inversa v. mossamedana n. var., Santschi, 1930b: 69, worker & queen)
see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0912654
Santschi's description is at {original description}.
Crematogaster mossamedana
Angola
busschodtsi (C. tricolor Gerst. var. Busschodtsi n. var., Emery, 1899e: 487, worker; Santschi, 1930a: 64, queen & male - noted by Santschi, 1935a, as actually variety inversa) collected at Banana, by Busschodts.
Emery's (1899e) description is at {original description}. Santschi (1935a: 257) noted this variety has antennae which are brown black and much darker than the rest of the head. No images on Antweb (July 2016).
alitrunk dark brown, petiole and base of gaster lighter; no images
Zaïre
museisapientiae (Crematogaster ferruginea Forel, subsp. museisapientiae, n. subsp., Forel, 1911e: 272, worker, queen & male) - http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0908509
Forel's description (1895h) of museisapientiae is at {original description}
Crematogaster museisapientiae
Tropical East Africa
elgona (Crematogaster (Acrocoelia) castanea Sm. st. inversa Forel, var. elgona, nov., Santschi, 1935b: 269, worker).
Santschi's description is at {original description} - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0912653
Crematogaster elgona
Kenya
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