Crematogaster buchneri

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Angola, Ghana.

Nomenclature

 * . Crematogaster buchneri Forel, 1894b: 94 (w.) ANGOLA.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: Angola: Benguela (M. Buchner).
 * Type-depository: MHNG.
 * Emery, 1899e: 479 (q.).
 * Combination in C. (Atopogyne): Santschi, 1916b: 501.
 * Status as species: Mayr, 1895: 136 (in key); Mayr, 1896: 242; Emery, 1899e: 479; Forel, 1913e: 669; Arnold, 1920a: 520; Emery, 1922e: 155; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 853; Menozzi, 1926a: 39; Santschi, 1930b: 55; Santschi, 1933b: 101; Santschi, 1937d: 227; Bolton, 1995b: 149.
 * Senior synonym of halli: Bolton, 1995b: 149.
 * Distribution: Angola, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus composita, graeteri, uasina.
 * halli. Crematogaster (Atopogyne) halli Donisthorpe, 1945d: 268 (w.) GHANA.
 * Type-material: 24 syntype workers.
 * Type-locality: Ghana (“Gold Coast”): Bunsu, 1.i.1945, nos H.1426A, H.1426B (H.E. Box).
 * Type-depository: BMNH.
 * Junior synonym of buchneri: Bolton, 1995b: 154.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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