Crematogaster (Crematogaster) vulcania Santschi

Type location Kenya (Cremastogaster vulcania, n.sp., Santschi, 1913a: 413 - in key; Santschi, 1914b: 94, all forms) Col du Longonot, xii.1913, 2140 m, Alluaud & Jeannel
all forms described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1914b) description is at and . Santschi's (1913a) key had - TL 3.0-4.0; pronotum flat and marginate; propodeum with reduced spines, no more than denticles; colour black, sometimes the gaster brownish-black; shiny; erect pilosity average.

The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0912727

Oxford University Museum specimens

Crematogaster (Crematogaster) vulcania B Taylor det. Queen

Uganda C A Wiggins OUMNH Coll.

12.v.1912 Entebbe 0°02'40"N 32°27'57"E

3850' asl Bussi I. (7 m w. of Entebbe) forest

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The photomontage is of a queen from Uganda; Entebbe; C A Wiggins (OUMNH collection). This appears to match the type queen, with the colour faded by age; especially the eyes set in the anterior third of the head.