Crematogaster subnuda

Crematogaster subnuda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Crematogaster
Species:	C. subnuda
Binomial name
Crematogaster subnuda Mayr, 1879 Specimen Labels
Subspecies
Crematogaster subnuda discinodis Emery, 1893 Crematogaster subnuda nigrosubnuda Özdikmen, 2010

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Indian Crematogaster

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 32.812778° to -2.183333°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Oriental Region: India (type locality), Pakistan, Sri Lanka.
Palaearctic Region: China.

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

Check data from AntWeb

Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.

Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• subnuda. Crematogaster subnuda Mayr, 1879: 682 (w.) INDIA (West Bengal).
  • Type-material: 2 syntype workers.
  • Type-locality: India: Calcutta (Rothney).
  • Type-depository: NHMW.
  • Imai, et al. 1984: 6 (k.). Bharti, 2008: 86 (q.m.).
  • Combination in C. (Acrocoelia): Emery, 1922e: 150;
  • combination in C. (Crematogaster): Bolton, 1995b: 166.
  • Subspecies of laboriosa: Santschi, 1928b: 33; Wheeler, W.M. 1929f: 5 (in text).
  • Subspecies of brunnea: Emery, 1922e: 150; Santschi, 1925f: 85; Wheeler, W.M. 1930a: 98; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 88.
  • Status as species: Forel, 1886d: 248; Emery, 1889b: 506; André, 1892b: 53; Dalla Torre, 1893: 87; Emery, 1895k: 467; Mayr, 1897: 428; Emery, 1900d: 688; Forel, 1903a: 684; Rothney, 1903: 98; Bingham, 1903: 129; Forel, 1913e: 662; Wheeler, W.M. 1919e: 74; Mukerjee, 1930: 153; Donisthorpe, 1942d: 454; Donisthorpe, 1943b: 202; Bolton, 1995b: 163; Tiwari, 1999: 46; Terayama, 2009: 178 (in key); Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 46; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 43; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 37; Dias, R.K.S. et al. 2020: 73.
  • Distribution: China, India, Indonesia (Kalimantan), Myanmar, Sri Lanka.
  • Current subspecies: nominal plus discinodis, nigrosubnuda.

Description

Karyotype

• n = 18, 2n = 36, karyotype = (31-36)M+(0-5)A (India) (Imai et al., 1984) (Karyotype formula as state by the authors).

References

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