Published April 27, 2026 | Version v1
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Crematogaster crucis Forel 1912

  • 1. Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia

Description

Crematogaster crucis Forel, 1912

Distribution

Chocó, César and Magdalena (Pedraza and Fernández 2019).

Distribution in the TDF

Widely distributed in the Colombian Caribbean Region.

Biology

Crematogaster crucis (Fig. 6) was observed foraging in vegetation, leaf litter and open ground in TDF fragments of the Caribbean Region; it was collected exclusively by manual sampling. Some records were obtained from dry branches of Coccoloba (Polygonaceae) located at the edge between the beach and the tropical dry forest in Tayrona National Park (Longino 2003).

Notes

Published as part of Gutiérrez-Martínez, Daniela M., Ramos-Ortega, Lina M. & Guerrero, Roberto J., 2026, Diversity and distribution of acrobat ants, Crematogaster Lund, 1831 (Formicidae, Myrmicinae), in the Colombian tropical dry forest, pp. e 176466 in Biodiversity Data Journal 14 on page e176466, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.14.e176466

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References

  • Pedraza L, Fernández F 2019 Género Crematogaster Fernández F, Guerrero R, Delsinne T Hormigas de Colombia 1 Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotá 978-958 - 783 - 766 - 7
  • Longino J 2003 The Crematogaster (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) of Costa Rica Zootaxa 151 1 1 150 https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.151.1.1 10.11646/zootaxa.151.1.1