Crematogaster elysii

Identification
A member of the Crematogaster tetracantha group.

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

Nomenclature

 * . Crematogaster elysii Mann, 1919: 319, fig. 22 (w.) SOLOMON IS (Three Sisters I.).
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “a few”).
 * Type-locality: Solomon Is: Three Sisters I., Malapaina, 1916 (W.M. Mann).
 * Type-depository: MCZC.
 * Combination in C. (Crematogaster): Bolton, 1995b: 166.
 * Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 21; Bolton, 1995b: 152; Sarnat, et al. 2013: 71.
 * Distribution: Solomon Is.

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.
 * Klimes P., P. Fibich, C. Idigel, and M. Rimandai. 2015. Disentangling the diversity of arboreal ant communities in tropical forest trees. PLoS ONE 10(2): e0117853. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0117853
 * Mann W. M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:273-391.
 * Mann William. 1916. The Ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 63(7): 273-391
 * Mann, W.M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard College 63: 273-391
 * Wheeler W.M. 1935. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
 * Wheeler, William Morton.1935.Checklist of the Ants of Oceania.Occasional Papers 11(11): 3-56