Crematogaster excisa subspecies impressa variety euphrosyne Santschi, 1922

Wheeler, W. M., 1922, The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45, pp. 39-269 : 153-154

publication ID

20597

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6288744

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scientific name

Crematogaster excisa subspecies impressa variety euphrosyne Santschi
status

new variety

Crematogaster excisa subspecies impressa variety euphrosyne Santschi   HNS , new variety

"Worker.-Length 3.5 mm. More or less pale chestnut brown. Thorax narrow. Pronotum reticulate-punctate in the spaces between the fine longitudinal rugae. Mesonotum feebly carinate in front. Resembles the variety brazzai Santschi   HNS ,1 but the latter has a broader thorax, without carina and the sculpture of the thorax is merely reticulate." (Santschi)

K-Tiginally described as a subspecies of C. impressa   HNS and given in our catalogue (Part VIII) as C. menilekii subspecies occidentalis variety brazzai   HNS .

Faradje (type locality) and Thysville (Lang and Chapin). The specimens at Faradje were found "nesting in hollow twigs. Snails (Pachnodus herbigradus Pilsbry) were found estivating in the same twigs inhabited by the ants and often in such numbers as to clog the passages." Camponotus foraminosus   HNS was found in similar hollow branches together with the same snails (see p. 248).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

SubFamily

Myrmicinae

Genus

Crematogaster

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