Crematogaster major

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

Nomenclature

 * . Crematogaster (Orthocrema) major Donisthorpe, 1941b: 39 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia).
 * Type-material: 6 syntype workers.
 * Type-locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”): Cyclops Mts, Sabron, 930 ft, vi.1935, tube 195 (L.E. Cheesman).
 * Type-depository: BMNH.
 * Status as species: Donisthorpe, 1948b: 305; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 98; Bolton, 1995b: 157.
 * Distribution; Indonesia (Irian Jaya).
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus flavior.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Donisthorpe H. 1948. A second instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)14: 297-317.
 * Donisthorpe, Horace. 1941. New Ants From Waigeu Island, New Guinea, And the Solomons. The Entomologist (74):36-43.
 * Donisthorpe, Horace. 1941. New Ants from Waigeu Island, New Guinea and the Solomons. The Entomologist. 74:36-43.
 * 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.