Crematogaster hottentota

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Lesotho, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

Nomenclature

 * . Crematogaster kneri subsp. hottentota Emery, 1899e: 482 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA, BOTSWANA.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: South Africa: Vrijburg, 1893 (E. Simon) (by restriction of Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 847).
 * [Note: other syntype localities: South Africa, Bloemfontein, 1893 (E. Simon), Botswana (“Bechuanaland”): (no further data). This taxon is based on C. kneri Mayr, sensu Emery, 1895h: 27, misidentification.
 * Type-depository: MSNG (possibly also in MRHN).
 * [Misspelled as kottentota by Menozzi, 1942: 169.]
 * Combination in C. (Sphaerocrema): Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 847.
 * Subspecies of kneri: Forel, 1913a: 125; Arnold, 1920a: 528; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 847; Emery, 1922e: 153.
 * Status as species: Santschi, 1926b: 224; Menozzi, 1942: 169; Bolton, 1995b: 154.
 * Distribution: Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus bassuto.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Emery C. 1899. Fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 43: 459-504.
 * IZIKO South Africa Museum Collection
 * Santschi F. 1925. Formicidae. Mission Rohan-Chabot. 4(3): 159-168.
 * 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. VIII. A synonymic list of the ants of the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 711-1004