Crematogaster dalyi Forel, 1902

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Crematogaster dalyi Forel

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Crematogaster (Oxygyne) dalyi Forel, 1902: 201. Type locality: India, Coonoor. Combination in C. (Crematogaster) by Blaimer, 2012b: 55.

Type material examined.

Crematogaster (Oxygyne) dalyi : lectotype worker (middle specimen of three on one pin) by present designation and two paralectotype workers from India, Coonoor (Daly) (MHNG, examined).

Measurements and indices.

(type workers, n = 3) HW 0.86-0.92; HL 0.85-0.87; CI 99-108; SL 0.74-0.75; SI 80-87; EL 0.16-0.18; PW 0.55-0.58; WL 1.02-1.03; PSL 0.1-0.12; PtL 0.25-0.26; PtW 0.30-0.33; PtH 0.16-0.17; PpL 0.17-0.18; PpW 0.37-0.39; PtHI 64-65; PtWI 115-132; PpWI 217-229; WI 118-126.

General description of worker.

Head appearing subquadratic in front view. Mandible weakly striate, with four teeth, apical and subapical teeth large, basal two teeth smaller. Scape exceeding posterior corner of head, with dense appressed setae, each of which is less than width of scape. Compound eye slightly projecting beyond lateral margin of head in full face view.

Ventrolateral katepisternal ridge indistinct posteriorly. Propodeal spine short and stout; length longer than spiracle, directed upward; dorsum as high as anterior propodeum in lateral view. Propodeal spiracle situated close to propodeal declivity in lateral view, directed laterally.

In dorsal view, shape of petiole scoop, longer than broad. Petiolar spiracle big, as wide as half of propodeal spiracle in size. Postpetiolar spiracle big and distinct, located anteriorly on lateral surface. In dorsal view, postpetiole broader than long, strongly bilobed but without longitudinal median sulcus. Postpetiole distinctly wider than petiole in dorsal view.

Integument essentially smooth and shiny. Clypeus generally smooth and shiny, but with feable rugulae. Malar region smooth and shiny. Dorsal surface of promesonotum smooth and shiny. Lateral surface of pronotum generally smooth and shiny, but with longitudinal rugulae on anterior portion. Mesopleuron and lateral propodeum generally smooth and shiny, but with weak longitudinal rugulae. Dorsal surface of propodeum smooth and shiny.

Erect pilosity absent. Dorsum of head, clypeus and mesosoma with short and appressed setae. Clypeus with one pair of longer setae on anteriormost portion, directed medially. Anterior clypeal margin with one single longer setae and two pairs of longer setae on the median portion, mixed with some shorter setae on sides. No erect seate on pronotal shoulders. Posterolateral tubercle without appressed setae. Ventral surface of petiole with appressed setae. Postpetiole without setae posteriorly. Fourth abdominal tergite with short and appressed setae.

Body color brown.

Distribution.

This species is only known from the type locality in India.

Comments.

This species is similar to C. sikkimensis , but differs in having short propodeal spines.

Figures

Figure 29. Crematogaster dalyi [Coonoor, India]. A Lateral view of body B Full face view C Dorsal view of petiole and postpetiole.