Crematogaster boxi

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Crematogaster boxi Donisthorpe, 1945 junior synonym of current valid taxon Crematogaster wellmani Forel, 1909

Crematogaster (Sphaerocrema) boxi Donisthorpe, 1945a: 10 (w.) GHANA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 8 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Ghana (“Gold Coast”): N Ashanti, 20 mi. N Wenchi, 15.v.1944, in pods of Sterculia tomentosa (H.E. Box). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimens: CASENT0902058, CASENT0902059.

Status as species: Donisthorpe, 1945d: 265.
Junior synonym of Crematogaster wellmani: Bolton, 1995b: 149

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Donisthorpe, H. 1945a. New and rare species of Crematogaster Lund (Hym. Formicidae) from the Gold Coast, etc. Entomologist 78:10-11. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1945d. On a small collection of ants (Hym., Formicidae) from West Africa, associated with Coccidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)12:265-273. PDF

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