The Ants of Africa
Genus Crematogaster
Crematogaster (Crematogaster) melanogaster Emery
{Crematogaster melanogaster}

Crematogaster (Crematogaster) melanogaster Emery

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server}Type location South Africa (Crematogaster Arborea F. Sm., sous-esp. melanogaster, n. subsp., Emery, 1895h: 29, worker & queen; raised to species by Wheeler, 1922: 840); subspecies homonyma (Cr. arborea, Mayr, 1866: 900; new name by Emery, 1922e: 147, worker & queen) from worker and queen described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Emery's (1895h) description is at {original description}. Arnold (1920a: 508) gave an illustrated translation as a variety of arborea, this is at {original description}.

Emery (1922e: 147) also referred to C. arborea subsp. melanogaster, Forel, in Schultze, Zool. Anthrop. Reise Afr. Formicid., p. 7, 1910.
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