Crematogaster chiarinii Emery 1881
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- 2. Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, FL, USA.
- 3. Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, PO Box 12613, Giza, Egypt.
Description
Crematogaster chiarinii Emery, 1881
Fig. 31
Crematogaster chiarinii Emery, 1881a: 271 (w) Ethiopia. Afrotropic.
Diagnosis
Head, petiole, postpetiole, and gaster dark brown, mesosoma light brown; head, in full-face view, with a well-defined frontal triangle and posterior longitudinal carina reaching posterior margin of eyes; propodeal dorsum transversally striated in dorsal view; postpetiole seen from above as broad anteriorly as posteriorly.
Material examined
This species was not collected during the present study.
Ecological and biological notes
This species forms large colonies with workers foraging among myrmecophilous myrmedoniine beetles at the base of trees of Vachellia (Collingwood 1985).
Geographic range
Crematogaster chiarinii was originally described from Ethiopia and elsewhere in north-east Africa. It was later recorded from Oman, KSA, and Yemen (Collingwood 1985; Collingwood & Agosti 1996; Collingwood & van Harten 2001). This species has been recorded from Dhofar by Collingwood (1985) based on a single specimen.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Emery
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Crematogaster
- Species
- chiarinii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Crematogaster chiarinii Emery, 1881 sec. Sharaf, Wetterer, Mohamed & Aldawood, 2022
References
- Emery C. 1881 a. Spedizione italiana nell'Africa equatoriale. Risultati zoologici. Formiche. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 16: 270 - 276.
- Collingwood C. A. 1985. Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 7: 230 - 302.
- Collingwood C. A. & Agosti D. 1996. Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (part 2). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15: 300 - 385.
- Collingwood C. A. & van Harten A. 2001. Additions to the ant fauna of Yemen (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Esperiana. Buchreihe zur Entomologie 8: 559 - 568.