Crematogaster mancocapaci

Identification
Longino (2003) - This is a distinctive species, perhaps near Crematogaster crucis. Workers are as large or larger than Crematogaster limata, with long flexuous setae, but the setae are sparse, a pair on the face, a few pairs on the mesosoma; fourth abdominal tergite covered with long, sparse, fully appressed pubescence, such that if it were suberect and more dense it would be like crucis; the propodeal spines are similarly short and upturned, and there is a strong anteroventral petiolar tooth; antenna with 3-segmented club; postpetiole broad and slightly sulcate.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Ecuador.

Nomenclature

 * . Crematogaster brevispina st. mancocapaci Santschi, 1911i: 280 (w.q.m.) ECUADOR.
 * [Note: brevispina is a misspelling of brevispinosa.]
 * Type-material: 28 syntype workers, 17 syntype queens, 1 syntype male.
 * Type-locality: Ecuador (“Equateur”): Chillacocha, 3900 m., 1905 (Rivet).
 * Type-depositories: MHNG, NHMB.
 * [Also described as new by Santschi, 1913h: 38.]
 * Combination in C. (Orthocrema): Emery, 1922e: 134.
 * Subspecies of brevispinosa: Santschi, 1913h: 38; Emery, 1922e: 134; Kempf, 1972a: 85; Bolton, 1995b: 157.
 * Status as species: Longino, 2003a: 132.
 * Distribution: Ecuador.

Type Material
Syntype worker, queen, male: Ecuador, Chillacocha, 3900m, 1905 (Rivet), (examined).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Fernández, F. and S. Sendoya. 2004. Lista de las hormigas neotropicales. Biota Colombiana Volume 5, Number 1.
 * Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).