Crematogaster sagei

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Crematogaster sagei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Crematogaster
Species: C. sagei
Binomial name
Crematogaster sagei
Forel, 1902

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Specimen Labels

Subspecies

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 32.812778° to 30.3416°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Oriental Region: India (type locality).
Palaearctic Region: China.

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.

  • sagei. Crematogaster sagei Forel, 1902c: 204 (w.q.) INDIA (Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand; also, no state data, “Himalaya”).
    • Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated).
    • Type-localities: India: Dharmsala (Sage), Himalaya, 5000 ft (Smythies & Sage), NW Himalaya (Rogers), Dehra Dun (Smythies).
    • Type-depository: MHNG.
    • Combination in C. (Acrocoelia): Emery, 1922e: 152;
    • combination in C. (Crematogaster): Bolton, 1995b: 166.
    • Status as species: Forel, 1903a: 684; Bingham, 1903: 135; Forel, 1906b: 89; Emery, 1922e: 152; Menozzi, 1939a: 301 (in key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 93; Bolton, 1995b: 161; Tang, J., Li, et al. 1995: 67; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 43; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 37.
    • Distribution: China, India.
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus laevinota.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Bharti H., Y. P. Sharma, M. Bharti, and M. Pfeiffer. 2013. Ant species richness, endemicity and functional groups, along an elevational gradient in the Himalayas. Asian Myrmecology 5: 79-101.
  • Forel A. 1902. Myrmicinae nouveaux de l'Inde et de Ceylan. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 165-249.
  • Forel A. 1903. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part X. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 14: 679-715.
  • Forel A. 1906. Les fourmis de l'Himalaya. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 42: 79-94.
  • Guénard B., and R. R. Dunn. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3558: 1-77.
  • Hosoishi S. and K. Ogata. 2009. A check list of the ant genus Crematogaster in Asia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bull. Inst. Trop. Agr. Kyushu Univ. 32: 43-83.
  • Li F. 2007. A Taxonomy Study on Genera Crematogaster and Myrmica from China (Hymenoptera:Formicidae:Myrmicinae). Guangxi Normal University, Guangxi, China. 58 pages.
  • Li Z.h. 2006. List of Chinese Insects. Volume 4. Sun Yat-sen University Press
  • Liu H., X.Z. Yuan, C.D. Zhang. 2002. Community structure and species diversity of ant in Qufu, Shandong province. Biodiversity Science 10(3): 298-304.
  • Tang J., Li S., Huang E., Zhang B. and Chen Y.. 1995. Hymenoptera: Formicidae (1). Economic Insect Fauna of China 47: 1-133.
  • Tiwari R. N., B. G. Kundu, S. Roy Chowdhury, and S. N. Ghosh. 2003. Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae. Fauna of Sikkim. Part 4. State Fauna Series. 9.Zool.Surv.India. i-iii, 1-512. Chapter pagination: 467-506.