Crematogaster mancocapaci, Longino, J. T., 2003

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

Crematogaster mancocapaci NEW STATUS

Crematogaster brevispinosa [misspelled here as brevispina ] st. mancocapaci Santschi , 1911:280 [Also described as new by Santschi, 1913:38.]. Syntype worker, queen, male: Ecuador, Chillacocha, 3900m , 1905 (Rivet) [ NHMB, MHNG] (examined). Emery, 1922:134: combination in C. (Orthocrema) .

This is a distinctive species, perhaps near crucis . Workers are as large or larger than limata , with long flexuous setae, but the setae are sparse, a pair on the face, a few pairs on the mesosoma; fourth abdominal tergite covered with long, sparse, fully appressed pubescence, such that if it were suberect and more dense it would be like crucis ; the propodeal spines are similarly short and upturned, and there is a strong anteroventral petiolar tooth; antenna with 3-segmented club; postpetiole broad and slightly sulcate.