Crematogaster carinata

A small, inoffensive ant which often colonizes single branches of trees inhabited by Pseudomyrmex mordax and/or Pseudomyrmex triplarinus. It appears to be able to maintain colonies without leaving their home tree. (Wheeler and Darlington 1930)

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Lesser Antilles, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.

Biology
De Oliveira et al. (2015), studying ant occupancy of Cecropia trees in southwest Bahia, Brazil, found a colony of  opportunistically nesting in a Cecropia pachystachya tree. Gillette et al. (2015) in a Chaipas, Mexico field study of twig-nesting ants in coffee plants found C. carinata nesting within one sampled plot of plants at 500m.

Nomenclature

 *  carinata. Crematogaster carinata Mayr, 1862: 768 (w.) BRAZIL. Longino, 2003a: 46 (q.). Combination in C. (Orthocrema): Emery, 1922e: 136. Senior synonym of parabiotica: Longino, 2003a: 44.
 * parabiotica. Crematogaster limata r. parabiotica Forel, 1904e: 683 (w.) COLOMBIA. Forel, 1912f: 217 (q.). Combination in C. (Orthocrema): Emery, 1922e: 136. Raised to species: Wheeler, W.M. 1921b: 99 (in text); Wheeler, W.M. & Darlington, 1930: 109. Subspecies of limata: Wheeler, W.M. 1921f: 152; Wheeler, W.M. 1923a: 3; Kutter, 1931a: 61; Santschi, 1939f: 161; Kempf, 1972a: 88. Junior synonym of carinata: Longino, 2003a: 44.