Crematogaster striatula

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Sierra Leone.

Biology
This species was observed in southern Cameroon tending extrafloral nectaries, sometimes in the presence of other co-occuring ant species.

Nomenclature

 *  striatula. Crematogaster striatulus Emery, 1892c: liii (w.) IVORY COAST. Emery, 1899e: 482 (q.); Delage-Darchen, 1978: 293 (l.). Combination in C. (Sphaerocrema): Santschi, 1918d: 182. Current subspecies: nominal plus benitensis, horatii, langi, obstinata, omega.

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