Crematogaster obnigra

Identification
A member of the Crematogaster irritabilis group.

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

Nomenclature

 * . Crematogaster obnigra Mann, 1919: 323 (w.) SOLOMON IS (Russell I.).
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: Solomon Is: Russel I., West Bay, 1916 (W.M. Mann).
 * Type-depository: MCZC.
 * Combination in C. (Crematogaster): Bolton, 1995b: 166.
 * Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 22; Bolton, 1995b: 159; Sarnat, et al. 2013: 71.
 * Distribution: Solomon Is.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Blaimer B. B. 2012. Acrobat ants go global  Origin, evolution and systematics of the genus Crematogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65: 421-436.
 * 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.
 * Mann, W.M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard College 63: 273-391
 * Wheeler W.M. 1935. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
 * Wheeler, William Morton.1935.Checklist of the Ants of Oceania.Occasional Papers 11(11): 3-56