Crematogaster (Crematogaster) vidua Santschi
  Type location Ivory Coast
(Crematogaster (Acrocoelia) vidua
n. sp., Santschi, 1928d: 62, worker) from Grand Bassam, collected by H.
Mottaz
worker only described (see Bolton, 1995)  .
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Santschi's (1928d) description is at  . Santschi made comparison with Crematogaster (Cr.) impressa
(as andrei).
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 The photomontage of
the type worker is
collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0912726
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Crematogaster species 2 - Nigeria
specimens. Worker. TL 3.9 mm, HL 0.86, HW 0.87, SL 0.59, PW 0.50
(Taylor, 1979: 25)
In profile promesonotum flat and slight carination of the mesonotum;
metanotal groove deeply impressed, mesonotum with a vertical posterior
face; propodeal spine one third down the declivity, stout and
moderately long; subpetiolar spine short and blunt; postpetiole with a
dorsal longitudinal groove; lateral mesonotum, propodeum and pedicel
spiculate, some specimens with faint striations; pilosity sparse, erect
hairs few, most on the head and gaster; colour brown-black, shiny.
In Nigeria it nests in crevices and dead wood
on trees. Occasionally found on cocoa tending aphids and pseudococcids.
Also found on native shrubs and trees. In addition to CRIN found at
Ilesha in a cocoa seed garden.
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Oxford University Museum
specimens - Note: Some previously listed by me as Crematogaster
acis or Crematogaster ruspolii
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 The
photomontage is of a worker from Benin; Koro;
collector J-F Vayssieres (RVA 2980.2).
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 The
photomontage is of a worker from Liberia; Yekepa Camp 4;
collector E Poirier (Yekepa Camp 4 PF X).
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 The
photomontage is of a large worker from Cameroun;
from Sombo; collector A Fotso Kuate (fk
spB).
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 The
photomontage is of a small worker from Cameroun;
from Sombo.
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 The
photomontage is of a worker from the Central African Republic,
Dzanga-Sangha National Park; collector Philippe
Annoyer (CAR DF).
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The photomontage is
of a worker from the Central
African Republic, Dzanga-Sangha National Park; collector Philippe
Annoyer (CAR DM).
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 The photomontage is
of a queen from the Central
African Republic, Dzanga-Sangha National Park; collector Philippe
Annoyer (CAR DM).
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