Crematogaster punctulata
Crematogaster punctulata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
Genus: | Crematogaster |
Species group: | scutellaris |
Species: | C. punctulata |
Binomial name | |
Crematogaster punctulata Emery, 1895 | |
Synonyms | |
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These ants nest in soil or under stones and logs. Brood has been found in August, sexuals were found from August to September. Flights were reported in May (Wheeler, 1908) at 11:00 MST. Foragers tend membracids on sunflowers, as well as coccids and aphids. They commonly forage on chollo (Opuntia sp.). Two nests where found together with Lasius sitiens. (Gregg, 1963, MacKay & Mackay, 2002)
Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
In New Mexico these ants have been found in mesquite forest (including dunes), pinyon pine, juniper forests shinnery oak forest, cottonwood forests, grasslands.
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 40.014986° to -34°.
North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Nearctic Region: United States (type locality).
Neotropical Region: Mexico.
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. |
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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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Habitat
Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- punctulata. Crematogaster punctulata Emery, 1895c: 287 (w.) U.S.A. (Colorado).
- Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 925); paralectotype workers (number not stated).
- [Note: Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 336, cite 30w syntypes MHNG, but Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 926, cite 25w syntypes (4 MHNG, 20 MSNG, 1 NHMW).]
- Type-locality: lectotype U.S.A.: Colorado (no further data) (T. Pergande); paralectotypes with same data.
- Type-depositories: MHNG (lectotype); MHNG, MSNG, NHMW (paralectotypes).
- Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 332 (q.m.).
- Combination in C. (Acrocoelia): Emery, 1922e: 141;
- combination in C. (Crematogaster): Buren, 1968b: 92.
- As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, W.M. 1908e: 479; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 564; Emery, 1922e: 141; Essig, 1926: 859; Smith, M.R. 1930a: 4; Dennis, 1938: 284.
- Subspecies of opaca: Wheeler, W.M. 1919g: 111; Smith, M.R. 1927: 310; Smith, M.R. 1951a: 810.
- Subspecies of lineolata: Creighton, 1950a: 214.
- Junior synonym of lineolata: Johnson, C. 1988: 319.
- Status as species: Enzmann, J. 1946c: 93; Buren, in Smith, M.R. 1958c: 127; Carter, 1962a: 6 (in list); Beck, et al. 1967: 69; Smith, M.R. 1967: 356; Buren, 1968b: 92, 93 (in key); Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 21; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1380; DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 138; Mackay, Lowrie, et al. 1988: 88 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 160; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 100; Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 330 (redescription); Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 925.
- Senior synonym of texana: Creighton, 1950a: 214; Buren, in Smith, M.R. 1958c: 127; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1380; Bolton, 1995b: 164; Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 925.
- Distribution: Mexico, U.S.A.
- texana. Crematogaster (Acrocoelia) opaca var. texana Santschi, 1929f: 91 (w.) U.S.A. (Texas).
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
- Type-locality: U.S.A: Texas, Farming County, Bonham, 25.vii.1922 (E. & G.C. Wheeler).
- Type-depository: NHMB.
- Subspecies of opaca: Enzmann, J. 1946c: 94.
- Unidentifiable taxon, incertae sedis in Pheidole: Smith, M.R. 1951a: 810.
- Junior synonym of lineolata: Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 222.
- Junior synonym of punctulata: Creighton, 1950a: 214; Buren, in Smith, M.R. 1958c: 127; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1380; Bolton, 1995b: 164; Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 925.
Description
References
- Buren, W. F. 1968b. A review of the species of Crematogaster, sensu stricto, in North America (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Part II. Descriptions of new species. J. Ga. Entomol. Soc. 3: 91-121 (page 92, Combination in C. (Crematogaster))
- Carroll, T.M. 2011. The ants of Indiana (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). M.S. thesis, Purdue University.
- Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104: 1-585 (page 214, Senior synonym of texana)
- Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104: 1-585 (page 214, Variety\subspecies of opaca)
- Davis, T. 2009. The ants of South Carolina (thesis, Clemson University).
- Emery, C. 1895d. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der nordamerikanischen Ameisenfauna. (Schluss). Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Geogr. Biol. Tiere 8: 257-360 (page 287, worker described)
- Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B: 95-206 (page 141, Combination in C. (Acrocoelia))
- Enzmann, J. 1946c. Crematogaster lineolata cerasi, the cherry ant of Asa Fitsch; (with a survey of the American forms of Crematogaster, subgenus Acrocoelia). J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. 54: 89-97 (page 93, revived status as species)
- Johnson, C. 1988. Species identification in the eastern Crematogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Entomol. Sci. 23: 314-332 (page 319, Junior synonym of lineolata)
- Morgan, C.E., Mackay, W.P. 2017. The North American Acrobat Ants of the hyperdiverse genus Crematogaster (Hymneoptera: Formicidae). Lambert Academic Publishing (PDF version, 532 pp.)
- 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, Revived status as species)
- 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. 1919h. A new paper-making Crematogaster from the southeastern United States. Psyche (Camb.) 26: 107-112 (page 111, Variety\subspecies of opaca)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Dattilo W. et al. 2019. MEXICO ANTS: incidence and abundance along the Nearctic-Neotropical interface. Ecology https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2944
- Morgan C., and W. P. Mackay. 2017. The North America acrobat ants of the hyperdiverse genus Crematogaster. Mauritius: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 540 pp.