Crematogaster oasium Santschi

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Aldawood, Abdulrahman S. & Garcia, Francisco Hita, 2019, Review of the Arabian Crematogaster Lund (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), synoptic list, distribution, and description of two new species from Oman and Saudi Arabia, ZooKeys 898, pp. 27-81 : 27

Crematogaster oasium Santschi Figure 28 A–C

Taxonomic history.

Crematogaster (Acrocoelia) auberti st. oasium Santschi, 1911: 84 (w.) Tunisia; Santschi 1937: 303 (q.); Bernard 1953: 156 (m.).

Combination in Crematogaster (Acrocoelia) : Emery 1922: 142; in Crematogaster ( Crematogaster) : Bolton 1995: 166.

Subspecies of C. antaris : Santschi 1921: 71; of C. auberti : Santschi 1929: 99.

Status as species: Santschi 1937: 303; Collingwood 1985: 261.

Current subspecies: C. oasium saharensis Santschi.

Geographic range.

Crematogaster oasium was described from Tunisia and can be found from Morocco east to Egypt ( Borowiec 2014; Guénard et al. 2017; Janicki et al. 2017). In the Arabian Peninsula, it was recorded from Kuwait, KSA, Oman, and UAE ( Collingwood 1985, Collingwood and Agosti 1996; Collingwood et al. 2011; Borowiec 2014; Sharaf et al. 2018) ( Fig. 25 ).

Remarks.

This species seems to be common and widespread in northern Africa. Since we have not collected or examined any material from Arabia we list this provisionally as an Arabian species for the time being since it was listed by several authors (see above).

Figures

Figure 25. Distribution map of C. laestrygon, C. mimosae, C. oasium, and C. senegalensis.

Figure 28. C. oasium A body in profile B body in dorsal view C head in full-face view, CASENT 0249821 (Ryan Perry), www. AntWeb. org.