Crematogaster dohrni artifex Mayr, 1878 [erroneously printed as 1879 in AntCat and AntWeb]

Material examined. None available.

Material not physically examined. Syntype – CASENT0919683, ANTC41462 (NHMW) [type of C. artifex] .

Literature. Type – Mayr (1878) [as C. artifex]. Viehmeyer (1916), Overbeck (1924) [both as C. artifex].

Localities. Changi (type locality); Jurong Road.

Habitat/Ecology. The ants were found in Nepenthes pitcher cups, presumably in mature or old secondary forest. Colonies were also found housed in fairly large pasteboard nests around branches of trees and shrubs, with smaller satellite nests of similar substrate on neighbouring leaves sheltering scale insects ( Coccidae).

Remarks. Type locality in Singapore. Crematogaster dohrni artifex was first described as C. artifex Mayr, 1878; status as subspecies of C. dohrni was first suggested by Forel (1902), but only formally established by Emery (1922).