Crematogaster (Crematogaster) meneliki st. proserpina Santschi, 1919h: 87 (in text) (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo (“Belgian Congo”): Zambi, 2.viii., no. 1 (J. Bequaert). Primary type depository: NHMB. Type notes: Crematogaster menilekii proserpina was inadvertently included as a new name in the description of the unavailable name Crematogaster menilekii proserpina pluton, which antedates the description of Crematogaster menilekii proserpina by Santschi, in Wheeler, 1922: 154. Material in this later publication bears the data: Democratic Republic of the Congo (“Belgian Congo”): Malela (H.O. Lang & J.P. Chapin, and J. Bequaert), deposited in MCZC, NHMB.

Infrasubspecies

• C. m. p. pluton Santschi, 1919