Crematogaster elegans

Identification
A member of the Crematogaster tetracantha group.

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

Nomenclature

 * . Crematogaster elegans Smith, F. 1859a: 149 (w.) INDONESIA (Aru Is).
 * Type-material: holotype worker.
 * [Note: the holotype of elegans (specimen on the left) is mounted on the same card as the holotype of mimicans Donisthorpe, 1932c: 475 (specimen on the right).]
 * Type-locality: Indonesia: Aru Is, “Aru” (A.R. Wallace).
 * Type-depository: OXUM.
 * Combination in C. (Xiphocrema): Emery, 1922e: 139; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 456.
 * Status as species: Mayr, 1863: 404; Roger, 1863b: 37; Dalla Torre, 1893: 81; Emery, 1922e: 139; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 456; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 103; Bolton, 1995b: 152.
 * Distribution: Indonesia (Aru Is).

Holotype worker in. Labelled “Aru.” The card has two specimens on it. The left hand specimen is the holotype of elegans, the right hand specimen is a different species and was made the holotype of C. mimicans Donisthorpe, 1932.

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.
 * Lucky A., L. E. Alonso, E. Sarnat, and J. Hulr. 2015. Ants and scolytine beetles. In: Richards, S.J. and N. Whitmore (editors) 2015. A rapid biodiversity assessment of Papua New Guinea's Hindenburg Wall region. Wildlife Conservation Society Papua New Guinea Program. Goroka, PNG.
 * 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.
 * Wilson E. O. 1959. Some ecological characteristics of ants in New Guinea rain forests. Ecology 40: 437-447.