Crematogaster flava

Identification
A member of the Crematogaster rogenhoferi group.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: Bangladesh, India, Nepal.

Nomenclature

 * . Crematogaster flava Forel, 1886d: 248 (w.) INDIA (Assam).
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: India: Sibsagar (= Assam, Sivasagar) (no collector’s name).
 * Type-depository: MHNG (possibly also in NZSI).
 * Tiwari, 1999: 44 (q.).
 * As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1922e: 151.
 * Subspecies of dohrni: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 90.
 * Subspecies of rogenhoferi: Forel, 1903a: 682; Forel, 1906b: 89; Menozzi, 1939a: 302 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 153.
 * Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 81; Bingham, 1903: 142; Tiwari, 1999: 44 (redescription); Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 325; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 36.
 * Distribution: India.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Bharti H., Y. P. Sharma, M. Bharti, and M. Pfeiffer. 2013. Ant species richness, endemicity and functional groups, along an elevational gradient in the Himalayas. Asian Myrmecology 5: 79-101.
 * 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.
 * Mathew R., and R. N. Tiwari. 2000. Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae. Pp. 251-409 in: Director; Zoological Survey of India (ed.) 2000. Fauna of of Meghalaya. Part 7. [State Fauna Series 4.] Insecta 2000. Calcutta: Zoological Survey of India, 621 pp.
 * Tiwari R. N. 1999. Taxonomic studies on ants of southern India (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India 18(4): 1-96.
 * Tiwari R. N., B. G. Kundu, S. Roy Chowdhury, and S. N. Ghosh. 2003. Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae. Fauna of Sikkim. Part 4. State Fauna Series. 9.Zool.Surv.India. i-iii, 1-512. Chapter pagination: 467-506.
 * Tiwari R.N., B.G. Kundu, S. Roychowdhury, S.N. Ghosh. 1999. Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae. Pp. 211-294 in: Director; Zoological Survey of India (ed.) 1999. Fauna of West Bengal. Part 8. Insecta (Trichoptera, Thysanoptera, Neuroptera, Hymenoptera and Anoplura). Calcutta: Zoological Survey of India, iv + 442 pp.