Revision of the Crematogaster brevis complex in Asia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Author
Hosoishi, Shingo
Author
Ogata, Kazuo
text
Zootaxa
2012
2012-06-18
3349
18
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3349.1.2
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Crematogaster brevis
Emery
(
Figs 3
a,
4a
, 7)
Crematogaster brevis
Emery, 1887: 467
(footnote), pl. 2, fig. 19.
LECTOTYPE
worker
(top specimen of two on one pin) (by present designation)
and one
paralectotype
worker
,
one
paralectotype
queen
, four
paralectotype
males
from
INDONESIA
:
Buitenzorg
[
Bogor
,
Java
] (
Conte Solms Laubach
) (
MCSN
) [examined].
Combination in
C
. (
Orthocrema
) by
Emery, 1922: 132
; in
C
. (
Mesocrema
) by
Santschi, 1928: 33
.
Measurements and indices.
HW 0.7-0.71; HL 0.68-0.72; CI 99-103; SL 0.49-0.53; SI 70-75; EL 0.14; PW 0.4- 0.44; WL 0.62-0.63; PSL 0.1-0.11; PtL 0.23; PtW 0.19-0.21; PtH 0.15; PpL 0.12-0.13; PpW 0.19-0.2; PtHI 65; PtWI 91; PpWI 154-158; WI 95-100 (
Lectotype
and one
paralectotype
workers measured).
General description of worker.
Compound eyes slightly projecting from lateral margin of head. Scape reaching posterior corner of head, the scape with standing and appressed setae.
Pronotal shoulders developed as ridges. Mesonotal dorsum convex in lateral view. Metanotal groove concave. Propodeal spines longer than the diameter of propodeal spiracles, curved upward. Anterior margin of metapleural gland bulla not reaching anterior margin of propodeal spiracle.
Petiole in dorsal view rectangular with angular corners. Subpetiolar process not visible in the specimens examined. Postpetiole bilobed behind, but without distinct longitudinal median sulcus.
Dorsal surface of head generally smooth, but the malar region with longitudinal rugulae. Clypeus with one median and two distinct pairs of lateral rugulae. The rugulae connecting the anterior and posteror clypeal margins. Dorsal face of promesonotum with dense reticulate sculpture. Lateral surface of pronotum generally smooth and shining, but some longitudinal rugulae extending from the anterior portion of the pronotum. Mesopleuron smooth, but lower portion of mesopleuron weakly sculptured. Longitudinal rugulae developed on the front and behind the metanotal groove in lateral view.
Fourth abdominal tergite with abundant appressed setae and sparse standing setae.
Distribution.
This species is known only from the
type
locality in
Indonesia
(Java).
Remarks.
This species is similar to
C
.
overbecki
. It differs in having a single median rugula in addition to two pairs of lateral rugulae on the clypeus, and in the pronounced sculpture on the dorsum of the mesonotum.
The
type
specimens were collected from the vine
Dischidia major
(Vahl)
(=
Dischidia rafflesiana
Wallich
) with
Dolichoderus bituberculatus
Mayr (
Emery, 1887
)
.