Crematogaster (Crematogaster) inconspicua Mayr
  Type location Cameroun
(Cremastogaster inconspicua nov. spec., Mayr, 1896: 246, worker
& queen), collector Y. Sjöstedt - see below
Worker and queen only
described (see Bolton, 1995)  .
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Mayr's (1896) description is at  .
Translation by Hauke Koch - Worker. TL 3.5-3.6 mm. Brown or more red
brown, petiole and abdomen more or less yellowish-brown, the mandibles
and the funiculi dirty-yellowish-red, the tarsi clayish-yellow. The
erect, moderately long pilosity is very sparse on the dorsum, on the
ventrum more pronounced, the scape, the femur (besides some long hairs
at the base) and the tibia have the same hairs; the short close-fitting
pubescence is rather sparse, richer on the tibiae and the scape, on the
latter also somewhat longer and slightly erect. The shiny mandibles are
finely and shallowly longitudinally striated, partly smooth, with few
points, at the base denser and sharper striated. The head is
rounded-quadratic, wider than the thorax, not very shiny, densely and
finely longitudinal, at the distal part transversely striated, with
sparse points bearing a hair, the middle of the frons and the following
median part of the vertex rather shiny and more or less smooth or
slightly streaky. The frontal clypeal margin is not depressed. The
frontal carinae weakly developed. The scape of the 11-segmented
antennae almost but not quite reaching the occipital margin, the 2-4th
funicular joint slightly longer than wide, the 5-7th very conspiciously
longer than wide, the last three joints forming a conspicious club. The
eyes lie in the middle of the sides of the head. The not very shiny
alitrunk is finely longitudinally striated, the sides of the pronotum
are more shiny, particularly below, and more or less smoothened, the
declining area of the propodeum is very shiny and smooth. The alitrunk
is rather short, rounded at the front and very conspiciously wider at
the back, between mesonotum and propodeum very constricted. The
pronotum to both sides with a not very conspicious rounded hump. The
mesonotum with a very conspicious weakly convex disc without median
keel, laterally not emarginated, from the pro-mesonotal suture to the
metanotal suture rather evenly arched. The spines of the propodeum are
straight, rather divergent, circa half as long as the width of the
basal area posteriorly. The shiny pedicel has a very subtle wrinkled
sculpture, the petiole is almost quadratic, insignificantly longer than
wide, anteriorly rounded to both sides, posteriorly truncated, the
lateral margins arched, the maximal width of the segments is in or in
front of their middle; the postpetiole has a moderately sharp
longitudinal groove. The shiny gaster with very subtle shagreening or
scaly and with sparse, hair-bearing points. In the species-overview of
the workers of the African species in my work "Afrikanische Formiciden"
in the "Annalen des k. k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums in Wien"
1895 page 137, when determining this new species, one gets to No 13a.
These species have a reverse trapezoid petiole, in which the frontal
margin proceeds to both sides, laterally from the articulation with the
alitrunk, with a small peduncle, in a more or less transverse
direction; whereas in the new species the frontal margin proceeds to
both sides, laterally from the small peduncle, immediately inclined to
the back and sides and proceeding into the lateral margin. |
 The
photomontage of worker from the type collection is
collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0908536
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Oxford University Museum
specimens
Crematogaster (Crematogaster) inconspicua
B Taylor det. |
Cameroun
A Fotso Kuate
Crematogaster sp5
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8.ix.2007
Awae II
03°54'30" N
11°25'58" E
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Tuna bait in fallow
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2
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Crematogaster (Crematogaster) inconspicua
B Taylor det. |
Cameroun
A Fotso Kuate
Crematogaster sp20
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26.vii.2007
Boga
03°54'30" N
11°25'58" E
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Quadrat in fallow
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2
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 The
photomontage is of a worker from Cameroun;
from Awae II; collector A Fotso Kuate (Crematogaster fk sp5).
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The
photomontage is of a second worker from Cameroun;
from Awae II; collector A Fotso Kuate (fk sp 5)
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 The
photomontage is of a worker from Cameroun;
from Boga; collector A Fotso Kuate (fk sp 20)
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