Crematogaster iridipennis

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: New Guinea.

Nomenclature

 * . Crematogaster iridipennis Smith, F. 1865: 74 (q.) NEW GUINEA (no state data).
 * Type-material: holotype queen.
 * Type-locality: New Guinea: (no further data), “N.” (A.R. Wallace).
 * Type-depository: OXUM.
 * Combination in C. (Orthocrema): Donisthorpe, 1932c: 473.
 * Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 82; Emery, 1922e: 158; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 473; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 96; Bolton, 1995b: 155.
 * Distribution: New Guinea.

Holotype queen in. Labelled “N.” (= New Guinea).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * 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.
 * Janda M., G. D. Alpert, M. L. Borowiec, E. P. Economo, P. Klimes, E. Sarnat, and S. O. Shattuck. 2011. Cheklist of ants described and recorded from New Guinea and associated islands. Available on http://www.newguineants.org/. Accessed on 24th Feb. 2011.
 * Smith F. 1865. Descriptions of new species of hymenopterous insects from the islands of Sumatra, Sula, Gilolo, Salwatty, and New Guinea, collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 8: 61-94.
 * Viehmeyer H. 1912. Ameisen aus Deutsch Neuguinea gesammelt von Dr. O. Schlaginhaufen. Nebst einem Verzeichnisse der papuanischen Arten. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und Anthropologische-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden 14: 1-26.