Crematogaster creightoni

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

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Crematogaster creightoni Wheeler, 1933 junior synonym of current valid taxon Crematogaster pilosa Emery, 1895

Crematogaster (Acrocoelia) creightoni Wheeler, 1933d: 86 (q.) U.S.A. (Virginia). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 6 syntype queens. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Virginia, Roanoke, 10.ix.1932 (W.S. Creighton). Primary type depositories: AMNH, LACM, MCZC. Primary type specimens: FMNHINS0000062697, FMNHINS0000062698, CASENT0912712, CASENT0105566. Type notes: Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 922, also report syntypes in FMNH, NHMB, USNM.

Status as species: Enzmann, 1946c: 93; Creighton, 1950a: 209; Smith, 1951c: 809; Kutter, 1968c: 203 (error).
Junior synonym of Crematogaster pilosa: Buren, in Smith, 1958c: 127; Smith, 1979: 1380; Bolton, 1995b: 151; Coovert, 2005: 62; Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 317; Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 902, 922.

Citations

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Enzmann, J. 1946c. Crematogaster lineolata cerasi, the cherry ant of Asa Fitsch; (with a survey of the American forms of Crematogaster, subgenus Acrocoelia). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 54:89-97. PDF
Kutter, H. 1968c ("1967"). Liste sozialparasitischer Ameisen. Archives. Institut Grand-Ducal de Luxembourg (n.s.)33:201-210.
Morgan, C. E.; Mackay, W. P. 2017. The North America acrobat ants of the hyperdiverse genus Crematogaster. Balti, Moldova: Lambert Academic Publishing, 532 pp. PDF
Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) 1958. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 1):1-305. PDF
Ward, P. S.; Blaimer, B. B. 2022. Taxonomy in the phylogenomic era: species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships among North American ants of the Crematogaster scutellaris group (Formicidae: Hymenoptera). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194:893-937. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1933d. A second parasitic Crematogaster. Psyche (Cambridge) 40:83-86. PDF

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