Crematogaster oscaris

Identification
A member of the Crematogaster ranavalonae-group.

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

Nomenclature

 * . Crematogaster (Oxygyne) oscaris Forel, 1910f: 7, pl. 1, figs. 5, 6 (w.q.m.) SOUTH AFRICA.
 * Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queen(s), syntype male(s) (numbers not stated).
 * Type-locality: South Africa: Little Namaland (= Namaqualand), Karmaggas (L. Schultze).
 * Type-depository: MHNG.
 * Status as species: Arnold, 1920a: 543; Emery, 1922e: 156; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 858; Bolton, 1995b: 159.
 * Distribution: South Africa.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Arnold G. 1920. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part IV. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum. 14: 403-578.
 * Blaimer B. B. 2012. Untangling complex morphological variation: taxonomic revision of the subgenus Crematogaster (Oxygyne) in Madagascar, with insight into the evolution and biogeography of this enigmatic ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 37: 240-260
 * 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