Crematogaster dohrni artifex

Crematogaster dohrni artifex
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Crematogaster
Species:	C. dohrni
Subspecies:	C. dohrni artifex
Trinomial name
	Crematogaster dohrni artifex; Mayr, 1879 Specimen Labels

Identification

Keys including this Species

Key to Indian Crematogaster

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 22.157° to 3.2726°.


North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Singapore.
Oriental Region: India, Thailand (type locality).
Palaearctic Region: China.

Distribution based on AntMaps

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.

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.

Biology

Castes

Images from AntWeb


Syntype of Crematogaster artifex. Worker. Specimen code casent0919683. Photographer Anna Pal, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by NHMW, Vienna, Austria.

Nomenclature

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

artifex. Crematogaster artifex Mayr, 1879: 684 (w.m.) THAILAND, SINGAPORE.
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated), 1 syntype male.
- Type-localities: Thailand (“Siam”): Bangkok (Ransonnet), Singapore: Changi (Ransonnet).
- Type-depository: NHMW.
- Forel, 1913k: 74 (q.).
- Combination in C. (Acrocoelia): Emery, 1922e: 150.
- Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 79; Forel, 1903a: 682; Bingham, 1903: 139; Forel, 1907e: 17; Forel, 1909d: 225; Forel, 1912n: 57; Forel, 1913k: 74; Viehmeyer, 1916a: 122; Santschi, 1920h: 160; Wheeler, W.M. 1923b: 1; Santschi, 1924c: 98; Wu, J. & Wang, 1992: 1307; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 324; Zhou, 2001b: 75.
- Subspecies of dohrni: Forel, 1902c: 203; Emery, 1922e: 150; Wheeler, W.M. 1924b: 246; Wheeler, W.M. 1927d: 4; Wheeler, W.M. 1927h: 87; Wheeler, W.M. 1928c: 16; Wheeler, W.M. 1930h: 65; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 90; Bolton, 1995b: 148; Mohanraj, et al. 2010: 6; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 42; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 36; Khachonpisitsak, et al. 2020: 85; Wang, W.Y., Soh, et al. 2022: 75.
- Distribution: China, India (+ Andaman Is), Indonesia (Java, Krakatau, Sumatra), Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam.

Description

References

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References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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