The Ants of Africa
Genus Crematogaster
Crematogaster (Decacrema) spuria Forel - new status

Crematogaster (Decacrema) spuria Forel - new status

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Zaïre (Cremastogaster gallicola For. r. spuria n. stirps, Forel, 1913b: 323, worker) from Zaïre, Lumbumbashi [Elizabethville], by J. Bequaert.

Separated here (August 2016) from under Crematogaster (Cr.) menilekii by virtue of this having ten-segmented antennee.

Forel's (1913b) description is at {original description}.

{Crematogaster spuria}The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0908533.

The 10-segmented antennae are very clear.

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