Crematogaster anthracina

Crematogaster anthracina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Crematogaster
Species:	C. anthracina
Binomial name
Crematogaster anthracina Smith, F., 1857 Specimen Labels

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Indian Crematogaster

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 32.7496° to 10.3711°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore (type locality).
Oriental Region: India, 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.

Castes

Images from AntWeb

Syntype of Crematogaster anthracina. Worker. Specimen code casent0901434. Photographer Ryan Perry, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by OUM, Oxford, UK.

Nomenclature

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

• anthracina. Crematogaster anthracinus Smith, F. 1857a: 75 (w.) SINGAPORE.
  • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
  • [Notes (i): Donisthorpe, 1932c: 450, cites 3w syntypes OXUM; (confirmed by Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978); (ii) according to Smith, F. 1858b: 136, a specimen is also present in BMNH.]
  • Type-locality: Singapore: “Sing. 31” (A.R. Wallace).
  • Type-depository: OXUM.
  • Combination in C. (Acrocoelia): Donisthorpe, 1932c: 450;
  • combination in C. (Crematogaster): Bolton, 1995b: 166.
  • Unidentifiable taxon: Forel, 1903a: 682.
  • Status as species: Smith, F. 1858b: 136; Mayr, 1863: 404; Roger, 1863b: 37; Mayr, 1867a: 105 (redescription); Smith, F. 1871a: 329; Mayr, 1872: 154; Mayr, 1879: 681 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 79; Bingham, 1903: 132; Emery, 1922e: 158; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 450; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 95; Bolton, 1995b: 147; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 323; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 45; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 42; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 35; Dias, R.K.S. et al. 2020: 68; Wang, W.Y., Soh, et al. 2022: 74.
  • Distribution: China, India, Malaysia (Sarawak), Singapore, Sri Lanka.

The following notes on F. Smith type specimens have been provided by Barry Bolton (details):

Crematogaster anthracinus

Three worker syntypes in Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Labelled “Sing. 31.”

References

• Akbar, S.A., Bharti, H., Wachkoo, A.A. 2023. Crematogaster bonnieae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), a new acrobat-ant species from the Western Ghats, India. Annales Zoologici Fennici 60, 9-17 (doi:10.5735/086.060.0103).
• Donisthorpe, H. 1932c. On the identity of Smith's types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 10(10): 441-476 (page 450, Combination in C. (Acrocoelia))
• Liu, C., Fischer, G., Hita Garcia, F., Yamane, S., Liu, Q., Peng, Y.Q., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B., Pierce, N.E. 2020. Ants of the Hengduan Mountains: a new altitudinal survey and updated checklist for Yunnan Province highlight an understudied insect biodiversity hotspot. ZooKeys 978, 1–171 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.978.55767).
• Smith, F. 1857a. Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace. [part]. J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. 2: 42-88 (page 75, worker described)
• Wang, W.Y., Soh, E.J.Y., Yong, G.W.J., Wong, M.K.L., Benoit Guénard, Economo, E.P., Yamane, S. 2022. Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy. Asian Myrmecology 15: e015006 (doi:10.20362/am.015006).

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