Crematogaster libengensis

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Democratic Republic of Congo.

Nomenclature

 * . Crematogaster libengensis Stitz, 1916: 389, fig. 7 (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO.
 * Type-material: holotype worker.
 * Type-locality: Democratic Republic of Congo (“Belgian Congo”): Ubangi Dist., Libenge, 25.x.1910 (Schubotz).
 * Type-depository: Zoological Museum Hamburg (Stitz, 1916: 371).
 * [Note: Hamburg zoological museum was destroyed in World War II; but holotype may perhaps be in MNHU or ZMUH.]
 * Combination in C. (Sphaerocrema): Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 847.
 * Status as species: Emery, 1922e: 153; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 847; Santschi, 1926b: 227; Menozzi, 1942: 169; Bernard, 1953b: 233; Bolton, 1995b: 156.
 * Distribution: Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus rufula.

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.
 * 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.