Crematogaster brevis Emery

Hosoishi, Shingo & Ogata, Kazuo, 2012, Revision of the Crematogaster brevis complex in Asia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Zootaxa 3349, pp. 18-30 : 22-23

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3349.1.2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6170273

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scientific name

Crematogaster brevis Emery
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Crematogaster brevis Emery View in CoL

( Figs 3 View FIGURES 1 – 3. 1 a, 4a View FIGURE 4 , 7)

Crematogaster brevis Emery, 1887: 467 View in CoL (footnote), pl. 2, fig. 19.

LECTOTYPE worker (top specimen of two on one pin) (by present designation) and one paralectotype worker, one paralectotype queen, four paralectotype males from INDONESIA: Buitenzorg [ Bogor , Java] (Conte Solms Laubach) ( MCSN) [examined].

Combination in C. ( Orthocrema ) by Emery, 1922: 132; in C. ( Mesocrema ) by Santschi, 1928: 33.

Measurements and indices. HW 0.7-0.71; HL 0.68-0.72; CI 99-103; SL 0.49-0.53; SI 70-75; EL 0.14; PW 0.4- 0.44; WL 0.62-0.63; PSL 0.1-0.11; PtL 0.23; PtW 0.19-0.21; PtH 0.15; PpL 0.12-0.13; PpW 0.19-0.2; PtHI 65; PtWI 91; PpWI 154-158; WI 95-100 (Lectotype and one paralectotype workers measured).

General description of worker. Compound eyes slightly projecting from lateral margin of head. Scape reaching posterior corner of head, the scape with standing and appressed setae.

Pronotal shoulders developed as ridges. Mesonotal dorsum convex in lateral view. Metanotal groove concave. Propodeal spines longer than the diameter of propodeal spiracles, curved upward. Anterior margin of metapleural gland bulla not reaching anterior margin of propodeal spiracle.

Petiole in dorsal view rectangular with angular corners. Subpetiolar process not visible in the specimens examined. Postpetiole bilobed behind, but without distinct longitudinal median sulcus.

Dorsal surface of head generally smooth, but the malar region with longitudinal rugulae. Clypeus with one median and two distinct pairs of lateral rugulae. The rugulae connecting the anterior and posteror clypeal margins. Dorsal face of promesonotum with dense reticulate sculpture. Lateral surface of pronotum generally smooth and shining, but some longitudinal rugulae extending from the anterior portion of the pronotum. Mesopleuron smooth, but lower portion of mesopleuron weakly sculptured. Longitudinal rugulae developed on the front and behind the metanotal groove in lateral view.

Fourth abdominal tergite with abundant appressed setae and sparse standing setae.

Distribution. This species is known only from the type locality in Indonesia (Java).

Remarks. This species is similar to C. overbecki . It differs in having a single median rugula in addition to two pairs of lateral rugulae on the clypeus, and in the pronounced sculpture on the dorsum of the mesonotum.

The type specimens were collected from the vine Dischidia major (Vahl) (= Dischidia rafflesiana Wallich ) with Dolichoderus bituberculatus Mayr ( Emery, 1887) .

MCSN

Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Crematogaster

Loc

Crematogaster brevis Emery

Hosoishi, Shingo & Ogata, Kazuo 2012
2012
Loc

Crematogaster brevis

Santschi 1928: 33
Emery 1922: 132
Emery 1887: 467
1887
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