Crematogaster castanea inversa

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Crematogaster castanea inversa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Crematogaster
Species: C. castanea
Subspecies: C. castanea inversa
Trinomial name
Crematogaster castanea inversa
Forel, 1907

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: Kenya (type locality), Rwanda.

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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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.
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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.
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Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • inversa. Crematogaster tricolor var. inversa Forel, 1907g: 81 (w.) KENYA.
    • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
    • Type-localities: Kenya (“E Africa”): Patta I. (A. Voeltzkow) (invalid restriction of type-locality by Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 833; no lectotype designated), Kenya (“E Africa”): Manda I. (A. Voeltzkow).
    • Type-depository: MHNG.
    • Emery, 1912c: 2 (q.m.); Santschi, 1930b: 69 (q.m.).
    • Combination in C. (Acrocoelia): Emery, 1922e: 146.
    • Subspecies of tricolor: Forel, 1909b: 53; Forel, 1911f: 279; Emery, 1912c: 2; Santschi, 1913a: 413 (in key); Santschi, 1914b: 86.
    • Subspecies of castanea: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 152, 833; Emery, 1922e: 146; Menozzi, 1933a: 103; Santschi, 1935b: 269; Bolton, 1995b: 155; Hita Garcia, et al. 2013: 210.
    • Distribution: Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Description

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