Crematogaster levior, Longino, J. T., 2003

Longino, J. T., 2003, The Crematogaster (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) of Costa Rica., Zootaxa 151, pp. 1-150 : 132-133

publication ID

20256

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9813210B-5B9F-4FDE-86DD-3AE55166EC9C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6275136

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D909FC5C-86D4-C7CA-7EF3-A6D164C9CBE3

treatment provided by

Thomas

scientific name

Crematogaster levior
status

NEW SPECIES

Crematogaster levior   HNS NEW SPECIES

Crematogaster limata r. parabiotica Forel   HNS (part): Forel, 1904b:683.

Crematogaster limata subsp. parabiotica var. levior Forel   HNS , 1911b:274. Worker: Brazil, Amazonas (H. W. Bates) [ MHNG, ZSMC] (examined). Unavailable name.

Crematogaster parabiotica Forel   HNS (part): Wheeler, W.M. 1921a; Wheeler, W.M. and Darlington, 1930:109.

Crematogaster cf. limata parabiotica Forel   HNS (part): Davidson 1988, Seidel et al. 1990, Davidson et al. 1990.

Holotype worker

Brazil, Amazonas (H. W. Bates) [ ZSMC]. There are two workers on one card. The holotype has been indicated with a black arrow drawn on the card.

Range

Amazonian portions of Brazil, Guianas, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia.

Description of worker

Pronotal dorsum almost entirely smooth and shiny, with no trace of carinulae, or with faint traces along anterolateral margins; other characters as in carinata   HNS .

Measurements

Holotype: HL 0.587, [HW, HC not visible], SL 0.586, EL 0.142, WL 0.672, SPL 0.130, PTH 0.141, PTL 0.201, PTW 0.152, PPL 0.145, PPW 0.147, OI 24, SI 100, PTHI 70, PTWI 76, PPI 101, SPI 19.

Biology

Crematogaster levior   HNS occurs in lowland wet forest habitats, where it cohabits large ant gardens with Camponotus femoratus   HNS . See carinata   HNS .

MHNG

Switzerland, Geneva, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle

ZSMC

Germany, Muenchen [= Munich], Zoologische Staatssammlung

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Crematogaster

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