Crematogaster brunnea

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia. Oriental Region: India, Sri Lanka. Palaearctic Region: China.

Nomenclature

 * . Crematogaster brunneus Smith, F. 1857a: 75 (w.) BORNEO (East Malaysia: Sarawak).
 * Type-material: 4 syntype workers.
 * Type-locality: Malaysia: Sarawak, “Sar” (A.R. Wallace).
 * Type-depositories: BMNH, OXUM.
 * [Misspelled as brunea by Dalla Torre, 1893: 80.]
 * Combination in C. (Acrocoelia): Emery, 1922e: 149;
 * combination in C. (Crematogaster): Bolton, 1995b: 166.
 * Status as species: Smith, F. 1858b: 138; Mayr, 1863: 404; Roger, 1863b: 37; Smith, F. 1871a: 329; Mayr, 1886c: 360; Dalla Torre, 1893: 80; Wheeler, W.M. 1919e: 71; Emery, 1922e: 149; Wheeler, W.M. 1927h: 87; Wheeler, W.M. 1929f: 4; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 450; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 86; Morisita, et al. 1992: 60; Bolton, 1995b: 149; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 45; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 42; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 36; Dias, R.K.S. et al. 2020: 69.
 * Distribution: China, India, Malaysia (Sarawak), Sri Lanka.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus latipetiolata, nicevillei, nilgirica, rabula, ruginota, sundaica.

Crematogaster brunneus

Two worker syntypes in, two worker syntypes in. Labelled “Sar.”

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Chapman, J. W., and Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monogr. Inst. Sci. Technol. Manila 1: 1-327
 * Dias R. K. S. 2002. Current knowledge on ants of Sri Lanka. ANeT Newsletter 4: 17- 21.
 * Gay H., and R. Hensen. 1992. Ant specificity and behaviour in mutualisms with epiphytes: the case of Lecanopteris (Polypodiaceae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 47: 261-284.
 * 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.
 * Kim et al. 1993. Systematic study of ants from Chejudo Province. Koran Journal of Entomology 23(3): 117-141.
 * Pfeiffer M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58
 * Sheikh A. H., M. Manzoor, Y. A. Rather, and T. Jobiraj. 2019. Taxonomic study of ant (Formicidae : Hymenoptera) fauna of Dumna Nature Park, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India. Journal of Entomological Research 43(2): 203-212.
 * Smith, F.. "Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace." Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 2 (1857): 42-88.
 * Wheeler W. M. 1919. The ants of Borneo. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:43-147.