Crematogaster (Orthocrema) sordidula Nylander

Iran list Type location Sicily (Myrmica sordidula n. sp., Nylander, 1849: 44, worker; Mayr, 1855: 472, queen and placed in Crematogaster; Forel, 1870: 398, male; in Orthocrema, Santschi, 1918d:183) Messina - no images on Antweb (April 2015).
junior synonyms (here)
mayri (Acrocoelia Mayri, Schmidt in Mayr, 1853b: 114, worker; in Crematogaster and synonymy Mayr, 1855: 472; see also Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 54) from Yugoslavia
flachi (Crematogaster sordidula Nyl. var. Flachi, Forel, 1895d: 229, worker) from Yugoslavia, Belgrade - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0908354
caspica (Crematogaster sordidula var. caspica, Emery, 1912e: 670, illustrated, worker; synonymy Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 182) Petrowsk, west coast of Caspian Sea, Korb - see below
aeolia (Crematogaster sordidula var. aeolia n. var., Forel, 1911d: 343, worker) Turkey, Coccarinali, near Smyrna - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0908355
marocana (Crematogaster (Orthocrema) sordidula stirps. marocana, Santschi, 1921d: 70) Morocco, Rabat - see below
osmanica (Crematogaster (Orthocrema) sordidula var. osmanica, Santschi, 1921a: 114) Turkey, near Angora - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0912782
Note: there are no obvious differences between the "subspecies" and any of the junior synonyms.

molongori (Crematogaster sordidula subsp. molongori, Weber, 1943c: 357, worker) South Sudan Imatong Mts. is almost entirely without erect hairs, so raised to species by me - Crematogaster (Orthocrema) molongori

Nylander's (1849) description is at . Emery's (1916b) illustrated note is at .

Emery (1912e: 667 ff) gave an illustrated analysis of sordidula and it varieties. This is on , and .

The photomontage of the caspica type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0904489

The photomontage of the marocana type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0904489