The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition.
Author
Wheeler, W. M.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
1922
45
39
269
http://plazi.org:8080/dspace/handle/10199/17097
journal article
20597
Crematogaster impressiceps variety frontalis Santschi
,
new variety
"Worker. - Length 3 to 3.5 mm. Pale brown; thorax less sculptured than in the typical
impressiceps
. Frontal groove deeply impressed. Stature less variable and smaller than in the typical form of the species and larger than in the
variety longiscapa Stitz
, but the scape also extends beyond the occiput as in that variety." (Santschi)
Numerous specimens from Malela (type locality) and Kunga (Lang, Chapin, and J. Bequaert); those at Kunga found nesting in the hollow internodes of the myrmecophyte Cuviera species (Part IV); the specimens from Malela "living in a small carton nest, about 9 cm. long, fixed upon a stalk of Raphia."