Crematogaster impressa

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Cameroun, Gambia, Guinea, Ivory Coast.

Nomenclature

 * . Crematogaster impressa Emery, 1899e: 486 (w.q.) CAMEROON.
 * Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated).
 * Type-locality: Cameroon: (no further data) (Conradt) (by restriction of Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 837).
 * [Note: other syntype localities: Democratic Republic of Congo (“Bas Congo”): (no further data (Seeldrayers), Ivory Coast: Bassam (Bonhoure).]
 * Type-depository: MSNG (perhaps lso in MRHN).
 * Forel, 1916: 408 (m.).
 * Combination in C. (Acrocoelia): Emery, 1922e: 147;
 * combination in C. (Crematogaster): Bolton, 1995b: 166.
 * Subspecies of buchneri: Forel, 1916: 411 (in text).
 * Subspecies of excisa: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 153, 837.
 * Status as species: Forel, 1909b: 59, 69; Santschi, 1910c: 373; Forel, 1911e: 270; Santschi, 1913a: 412 (in key); Forel, 1913h: 353; Forel, 1916: 408; Emery, 1922e: 147; Menozzi, 1933a: 103; Santschi, 1935a: 257; Santschi, 1937b: 98; Menozzi, 1942: 167; Eidmann, 1944: 445; Bernard, 1953b: 235; Bolton, 1995b: 154.
 * Senior synonym of andrei: Santschi, 1937b: 98; Bolton, 1995b: 154.
 * Distribution: Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Niger, Uganda.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus brazzai, maynei, sapora.
 * andrei. Crematogaster excisa subsp. andrei Forel, 1911f: 277 (w.q.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated), 1 syntype queen.
 * Type-locality: Democratic Republic of Congo: Congo da Lemba (R. Mayné) (by restriction of Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 836).
 * [Note: other syntype locality: Congo: (no further data) (André).]
 * Type-depository: MRAC.
 * Combination in C. (Acrocoelia): Emery, 1922e: 147.
 * Subspecies of excisa: Forel, 1913a: 126; Forel, 1914d: 236; Forel, 1915c: 341; Forel, 1916: 409; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 153, 836; Emery, 1922e: 147; Santschi, 1928d: 63.
 * Subspecies of impressa: Santschi, 1913a: 412 (in key); Santschi, 1935a: 257.
 * Junior synonym of impressa: Santschi, 1937b: 98; Bolton, 1995b: 147.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Bernard F. 1953. La réserve naturelle intégrale du Mt Nimba. XI. Hyménoptères Formicidae. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 19: 165-270.
 * Borowiec L., and S. Salata. 2018. Notes on ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Gambia (Western Africa). Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom Entomology 26: 1-13.
 * Dejean A., F. Azemar, R. Cereghino, M. Leponce, B. Corbara, J. Orivel, and A. Compin. 2015. The dynamics of ant mosaics in tropical rainforests characterized using the SelfOrganizing Map algorithm. Insect Science doi: 10.1111/1744-7917.12208
 * Delage-Darchen B. 1971. Contribution à l'étude écologique d'une savane de Côte d'Ivoire (Lamto). Les fourmis des strates herbacée et arborée. Biologia Gabonica 7: 461-496.
 * Delage-Darchen B. 1974. Ecologie et biologie de Crematogaster impressa Emery, fourmi savanicole d'Afrique. Insectes Sociaux 21(1): 13-34.
 * Eidmann H. 1944. Die Ameisenfauna von Fernando Poo. 27. Beitrag zu den Ergebnissen der Westafrika-Expedition. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Ökol. Geogr. Tiere 76: 413-490.
 * Emery C. 1899. Fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 43: 459-504.
 * Forel A. 1914. Formicides d'Afrique et d'Amérique nouveaux ou peu connus. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 50: 211-288.
 * IZIKO South Africa Museum Collection
 * Lévieux J. 1977. La nutrition des fourmis tropicales: V- Elements de synthèse. Les modes d'exploitation de la biocenose. Insectes Sociaux 24(3): 235-260.
 * Menozzi C. 1942. Formiche dell'isola Fernando Poo e del territorio del Rio Muni (Guinea Spagnola). 24. Beitrag zu den wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen der Forschungsreise H. Eidmann nach Spanisch-Guinea 1939 bis 1940. Zoologischer Anzeiger 140: 164-182.
 * Santschi F. 1910. Formicides nouveaux ou peu connus du Congo français. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 78: 349-400.
 * Santschi F. 1913. Cremastogaster du groupe tricolor-Menileki (Hym. Formicidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1912: 411-414.
 * Santschi F. 1935. Fourmis du Musée du Congo Belge. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines. 27: 254-285.
 * Soulié J., and L. D. Dicko. 1965. La répartition des genres de fourmis de la tribu des "Cremastogastrini" dans la faune éthiopienne et malgache. Hymenoptera - Formicoidea - Myrmicidae. Ann. Univ. Abidjan Sér. Sci. 1: 85-106.
 * Wheeler W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. II. The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 39-269.
 * Wheeler W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VIII. A synonymic list of the ants of the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 711-1004