Crematogaster menilekii

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Benin, Ethiopia, Guinea.

Nomenclature

 * . Crematogaster menilekii Forel, 1894b: 97 (w.) ETHIOPIA.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: Ethiopia (“Südabessinien”): (no further data) (Ilg).
 * Type-depository: MHNG.
 * [Misspelled as meneliki by Forel, 1913h: 353, Santschi, 1914b: 93, and others.]
 * Combination in C. (Crematogaster): Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 840;
 * combination in C. (Acrocoelia): Emery, 1922e: 147;
 * combination in C. (Crematogaster): Bolton, 1995b: 166.
 * Subspecies of buchneri: Forel, 1916: 411 (in text).
 * Status as species: Emery, 1899a: 500; Mayr, 1902: 293; Santschi, 1913a: 412 (in key); Santschi, 1919h: 87; Emery, 1922e: 147; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 154, 840; Bernard, 1953b: 235; Bolton, 1995b: 157.
 * Distribution: Ethiopia, Guinea.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus completa, occidentalis, proserpina, satan, spuria, suddensis, viehmeyeri.

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.
 * Santschi F. 1913. Cremastogaster du groupe tricolor-Menileki (Hym. Formicidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1912: 411-414.
 * 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.