Crematogaster JTL

Herrera Léon Baert Wouter Dekoninck, Henri W., Causton, Charlotte E., Sevilla, Christian R., Pozo, Paola & Hendrickx, Frederik, 2020, Distribution and habitat preferences of Galápagos ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 93, pp. 1-60 : 21

Crematogaster JTL – 022

(ANTWEB: ICCDRS0002584). ( Map 17 )

Probably distributed in the Andean regions of Colombia to southern Perú ( HERRERA et al., 2014). Crematogaster JTL –022 is an uncommon species recently introduced to the islands and only known from the Littoral and Transition Zone on San Cristóbal. It was recorded for the first time in 2007 in urban area near the coast of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno ( HERRERA et al., 2014). Crematogaster JTL –022 is a species that closely resembles Crematogaster obscurata Emery, 1895 ( HERRERA et al., 2014). It was found nesting in small dead branches in sunny habitats. It was collected in C. pyriformis and visiting flowers of O. megasperma and G. darwinii . This ant is considered a peripheral species in the pollination networks in Galápagos (TRAVESET et al., 2011). Crematogaster JTL –022 is also know from Orellana and Sucumbios provinces on the mainland of Ecuador (Longino pers. comm., XI.2015).

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Map 17. Distribution and ecological zone registered for Crematogaster JTL-022.