Crematogaster creightoni

Crematogaster creightoni
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Crematogaster pilosa)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Crematogaster
Species:	Crematogaster creightoni Wheeler, W.M., 1933

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Crematogaster pilosa.

Nomenclature

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

• creightoni. Crematogaster (Acrocoelia) creightoni Wheeler, W.M. 1933d: 86 (q.) U.S.A. Junior synonym of pilosa: Buren, in Smith, M.R. 1958c: 127.

References

• Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. U. S. Dep. Agric. Agric. Monogr. 2(suppl. 1):1-305. (page 127, Junior synonym of pilosa: Buren)
• Ward, P.S., Blaimer, B.B. 2022. Taxonomy in the phylogenomic era: species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships among North American ants of the Crematogaster scutellaris group (Formicidae: Hymenoptera), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194(3): 893–937 (doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab047).
• Wheeler, W. M. 1933d. A second parasitic Crematogaster. Psyche (Camb.) 40: 83-86 (page 86, queen described)