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<mods:title>Taxonomic Revision of the Obligate Plant-Ants of the Genus Crematogaster Lund (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae), Associated with Macaranga Thouars (Euphorbiaceae) on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula</mods:title>
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<taxonomicName authority="Andre 1896" authorityName="Andre" authorityYear="1896" box="[828,1247,261,286]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="665" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="borneensis">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[828,1115,261,286]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">Crematogaster borneensis</emphasis>
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=
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subsp.
<emphasis box="[1221,1285,297,320]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">capax</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Forel, A." box="[1291,1413,296,320]" journalOrPublisher="Revue Suisse de Zoologie" pageId="14" pageNumber="665" pagination="23 - 62" part="19" refString="Forel, A. (1911). Fourmis de Borneo, Singapore, Ceylan, etc. recoltees par MM. Haviland, Green, Winkler, Will, Hose, Roepke et Waldo. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 19: 23 - 62." title="Fourmis de Borneo, Singapore, Ceylan, etc. recoltees par MM. Haviland, Green, Winkler, Will, Hose, Roepke et Waldo" type="journal article" year="1911">Forel, 1911</bibRefCitation>
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<emphasis box="[834,1141,331,355]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">
=
<taxonomicName box="[859,1141,331,355]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="665" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="borneensis">Crematogaster borneensis</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
subsp.
<taxonomicName authority="Forel, 1911" authorityName="Forel" authorityYear="1911" box="[1221,1406,331,355]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Euphorbiaceae" genus="Macaranga" kingdom="Plantae" order="Malpighiales" pageId="14" pageNumber="665" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="hosei">
<emphasis box="[1221,1277,331,355]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">hosei</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Forel, A." box="[1284,1406,331,355]" journalOrPublisher="Revue Suisse de Zoologie" pageId="14" pageNumber="665" pagination="23 - 62" part="19" refString="Forel, A. (1911). Fourmis de Borneo, Singapore, Ceylan, etc. recoltees par MM. Haviland, Green, Winkler, Will, Hose, Roepke et Waldo. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 19: 23 - 62." title="Fourmis de Borneo, Singapore, Ceylan, etc. recoltees par MM. Haviland, Green, Winkler, Will, Hose, Roepke et Waldo" type="journal article" year="1911">Forel, 1911</bibRefCitation>
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<emphasis box="[834,1141,366,390]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">
=
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subsp.
<emphasis box="[1221,1331,366,390]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">sembilana</emphasis>
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=
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<emphasis box="[855,1123,400,424]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">Crematogaster borneensis</emphasis>
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var.
<emphasis box="[1173,1301,401,424]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">macarangae</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Viehmeyer, H." box="[1306,1481,400,424]" journalOrPublisher="Beobachtet und gesammelt von H. Overbeck. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 81 (A" pageId="14" pageNumber="665" pagination="108 - 168" part="1915" refString="Viehmeyer, H. (1916). Ameisen von Singapore. Beobachtet und gesammelt von H. Overbeck. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 81 (A 8, 1915): 108 - 168." title="Ameisen von Singapore" type="journal article" year="1916">Viehmeyer, 1916</bibRefCitation>
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<emphasis box="[828,1083,470,494]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">Type material examined</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[903,1053,504,528]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">C. borneensis</emphasis>
André.
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<emphasis box="[1142,1246,505,528]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">Lectotype</emphasis>
and
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, 2 workers (1 worker designated as
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with label on pin), Borneo (André) (MNHN).
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<emphasis box="[828,1014,643,667]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">Lectotype worker</emphasis>
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<paragraph blockId="14.[828,1482,643,1256]" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">CI 0.96, DPPW 0.19, DPW 0.19, EL 0.13, HL 0.67, HW 0.64, LHT 0.49, LPS 0.101, MTW 0.4, PI 1.0, REL 0.2, RLEG 0.63, SI 0.71, SL 0.45, (TL 2.8), WL 0.77</paragraph>
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<emphasis box="[903,1185,782,806]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">Crematogaster borneensis</emphasis>
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subsp.
<emphasis box="[1264,1328,782,805]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">capax</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Forel, A." box="[1334,1458,782,806]" journalOrPublisher="Revue Suisse de Zoologie" pageId="14" pageNumber="665" pagination="23 - 62" part="19" refString="Forel, A. (1911). Fourmis de Borneo, Singapore, Ceylan, etc. recoltees par MM. Haviland, Green, Winkler, Will, Hose, Roepke et Waldo. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 19: 23 - 62." title="Fourmis de Borneo, Singapore, Ceylan, etc. recoltees par MM. Haviland, Green, Winkler, Will, Hose, Roepke et Waldo" type="journal article" year="1911">Forel, 1911</bibRefCitation>
, 1 worker 1 alate queen, Borneo (Sarawak) (Haviland) (MHNG)
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<taxonomicName box="[903,1186,851,875]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="665" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="borneensis">
<emphasis box="[903,1186,851,875]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">Crematogaster borneensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
subsp.
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<emphasis box="[1268,1324,851,875]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">hosei</emphasis>
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, 1
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<paragraph blockId="14.[828,1482,643,1256]" box="[828,1327,886,910]" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">worker 1 alate queen, Borneo (Hose) (MHNG)</paragraph>
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<emphasis box="[903,1175,920,944]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">Crematogaster borneensis</emphasis>
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subsp.
<emphasis box="[1248,1355,920,944]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">sembilana</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Forel, A." box="[1359,1478,920,944]" journalOrPublisher="Revue Suisse de Zoologie" pageId="14" pageNumber="665" pagination="23 - 62" part="19" refString="Forel, A. (1911). Fourmis de Borneo, Singapore, Ceylan, etc. recoltees par MM. Haviland, Green, Winkler, Will, Hose, Roepke et Waldo. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 19: 23 - 62." title="Fourmis de Borneo, Singapore, Ceylan, etc. recoltees par MM. Haviland, Green, Winkler, Will, Hose, Roepke et Waldo" type="journal article" year="1911">Forel, 1911</bibRefCitation>
, 2 alate queens, Negri Sembilan Malacca, Peninsula Malaysia (R. Martin) (MHNG); 1 alate queen Negri Sembilan, Malacca, Peninsula Malaysia (R. Martin) from collection Viehmeyer (ZMBH). [Dealate queen from the same series is definitely a different species; posterior margin of the head strongly concavely indented; queen of
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?]
</paragraph>
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[
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<emphasis box="[912,1179,1163,1187]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">Crematogaster borneensis</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName authority="Viehmeyer, 1916" authorityName="Viehmeyer" authorityYear="1916" pageId="14" pageNumber="665" rank="variety" variety="macarangae">
var.
<emphasis box="[1228,1356,1164,1187]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">macarangae</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Viehmeyer, H." journalOrPublisher="Beobachtet und gesammelt von H. Overbeck. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 81 (A" pageId="14" pageNumber="665" pagination="108 - 168" part="1915" refString="Viehmeyer, H. (1916). Ameisen von Singapore. Beobachtet und gesammelt von H. Overbeck. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 81 (A 8, 1915): 108 - 168." title="Ameisen von Singapore" type="journal article" year="1916">Viehmeyer, 1916</bibRefCitation>
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, Singapore, worker described; Type material lost? Included in catalogue of ZMBH but not found in collection.]
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<emphasis box="[828,1146,1299,1323]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">Additional material examined</emphasis>
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[903,1112,1333,1357]" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">Peninsula Malaysia</emphasis>
: Cukai (U. Maschwitz), Gombak (H. Feldhaar), Kuantan (U. Maschwitz), Maran (U. Maschwitz), Mersing (B. Fiala), Rawang (H. Feldhaar);
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1295,1474,1403,1427]" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">Sabah (Borneo)</emphasis>
: Bukit Taviu (H. Feldhaar), Deramakot (B. Fiala), Poring Hot Spring (H. Feldhaar), Tawau (H. Feldhaar), Telupid (H. Feldhaar),
<emphasis bold="true" box="[991,1202,1507,1531]" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">Sarawak (Borneo)</emphasis>
: Lambir Hills (B. Fiala), Santubong (A. Jakob).
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<paragraph blockId="14.[828,1481,1608,1771]" box="[828,1144,1608,1633]" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">
<emphasis box="[828,1144,1608,1633]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">Worker measurements (n=11)</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="14.[828,1481,1608,1771]" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">CI 0.92-0.97, DPPW 0.18-0.25, DPW 0.19-0.25, EL 0.12- 0.17, HL 0.67-0.97, HW 0.63-0.92, LHT 0.5-0.72, LPS 0.104- 0.169, MTW 0.39-0.51, PI 1.01-1.14, REL 0.17-0.2, RLEG 0.62- 0.71, SI 0.64-0.74, SL 0.46-0.6, (TL 2.8-3.9), WL 0.82-1.03</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="14.[828,1064,1816,1840]" box="[828,1064,1816,1840]" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">
<emphasis box="[828,1064,1816,1840]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">Description of worker</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="14.[828,1483,1875,2003]" lastBlockId="15.[106,761,131,1715]" lastPageId="15" lastPageNumber="666" pageId="14" pageNumber="665">Colour light to reddish brown (large workers) with head and gaster being a slightly darker shade than the alitrunk. Workers monomorphic in size. Total body length of workers 2.5 mm to 3.2 mm. Head and gaster shiny with smooth surface, alitrunk slightly less shiny and faintly shagreened. All body parts bear appressed pubescent hairs. Long flexuous setae present on head gaster and abdomen: on head especially in frons, on gaster more on the posterior margins of tergites and sternites. Only few setae on alitrunk and one pair each on petiole and postpetiole.</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="15.[106,761,131,1715]" pageId="15" pageNumber="666">Head subquadratic but slightly elongated, always being longer than wide (CI&lt;0.97) and only slightly rounded on sides. Anterior clypeal margin slightly convex and with a row of long erect setae projecting anteriorly. Occipital margin slightly concavely rounded, occipital lobes rounded. Mandibles relatively short and with four denticles, capable of closing tightly against the clypeus. Denticles increasing continuously in size from most proximate to most distal denticle. Surface of mandibles smooth, covered with short pubescent hairs.</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="15.[106,761,131,1715]" pageId="15" pageNumber="666">Antennae relatively long in comparison to head width (SI 0.64-0.74; mean 0.68) and covered in short pubescent hair. Terminal three funicular segments form a club, sometimes only the terminal two segments.</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="15.[106,761,131,1715]" pageId="15" pageNumber="666">Compound eyes elliptically shaped and not protruding over margin of head in full-face view. Pronotum and mesonotum form a convex dome in profile, sometimes slightly flattened dorsally. Anterodorsal surface of pronotum sloping downwards slightly steeper than or as steep as posterodorsal surface of mesonotum. Metanotal groove slightly notched and clearly developed, whereas the promesonotal suture visible but not prominent.</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="15.[106,761,131,1715]" pageId="15" pageNumber="666">Propodeal spines in lateral view strong and acute. Tip of the spines always protruding over posterior margin of the propodeal spiracle and diverging very slightly. Dorsal face of the propodeum confluent with the horizontal spines or spines bent slightly upwards. Slope of the posterior face of the propodeum similar to posterior slope of mesonotum (Fig S1.1C and S1.1D).</paragraph>
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In dorsal view petiole always wider than postpetiole (PI: 1.01-1.14). Node of petiole in dorsal view longer than wide and considerably rounded, dorsal surface flat. In profile the anterior face of the petiolar node shorter than the posterior so that the dorsal surface slopes downwards anteriorly. Dorsal surface of the postpetiolar node in profile rounded. Subpetiolar process usually absent. (See
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for comparative overview of worker characters.)
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In the original description of the worker of
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<emphasis box="[618,760,1518,1542]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="666">C. borneensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by
<bibRefCitation author="Andre, E." box="[137,281,1552,1576]" journalOrPublisher="Revue d'Entomologie (Caen)" pageId="15" pageNumber="666" pagination="251 - 265" part="15" refString="Andre, E. (1896). Fourmis nouvelles d'Asie et d'Australie. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen), 15: 251 - 265." title="Fourmis nouvelles d'Asie et d'Australie" type="journal article" year="1896">André (1896)</bibRefCitation>
he described the worker as having propodeal spines twice as long as their base.
<bibRefCitation author="Forel, A." box="[475,608,1587,1611]" journalOrPublisher="Revue Suisse de Zoologie" pageId="15" pageNumber="666" pagination="23 - 62" part="19" refString="Forel, A. (1911). Fourmis de Borneo, Singapore, Ceylan, etc. recoltees par MM. Haviland, Green, Winkler, Will, Hose, Roepke et Waldo. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 19: 23 - 62." title="Fourmis de Borneo, Singapore, Ceylan, etc. recoltees par MM. Haviland, Green, Winkler, Will, Hose, Roepke et Waldo" type="journal article" year="1911">Forel (1911)</bibRefCitation>
writes that he has had personal contact with M. André and has been told that this was indeed an error made in the original description as spines are shorter (see above).
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="15.[106,760,1758,1990]" box="[106,416,1758,1782]" pageId="15" pageNumber="666">
<emphasis box="[106,416,1758,1782]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="666">Queen measurements (n=27)</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="15.[106,760,1758,1990]" pageId="15" pageNumber="666">CI 0.88-0.96, DPPW 0.49-0.61, DPW 0.44-0.57, EL 0.50-0.60, HL 1.31-1.50, HW 1.18-1.42, LHT 1.01-1.18, MTW 0.96-1.21, OD1 0.17-0.23, OD2 0.07-0.10, OW 0.13- 0.17, PI 0.87-1.0, REL 0.36-0.43, RLEG 0.42-0.49, ROD 0.13-0.17, ROD2 0.054-0.077, SI 0.53-0.6, SL 0.7-0.77, (TL 7.0-8.5), WL 2.23-2.7</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="15.[805,1029,131,155]" box="[805,1029,131,155]" pageId="15" pageNumber="666">
<emphasis box="[805,1029,131,155]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="666">Description of queen</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="15.[805,1460,190,1600]" pageId="15" pageNumber="666">Queens large, 7.0 to 8.5 mm in total body length and uniformly light to medium brown in colour. Surface of head and gaster smooth and shiny, alitrunk slightly less shiny and faintly shagreened. All body parts bear appressed pubescent hairs. Long flexuous setae present on head gaster and abdomen: on head especially in frons, on gaster more on the posterior margins of tergites and sternites. A row of long erect setae pointing anterior present on the clypeus. Mandibles relatively short, capable of closing tightly against the clypeus.</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="15.[805,1460,190,1600]" pageId="15" pageNumber="666">Head elongate, always longer than wide (CI: 0.88-0.96; mean 0.91).Sides of the head only very slightly convex, occipital margin of the head straight to slightly convex. Occipital lobes strongly rounded. Anterior clypeal margin slightly convex. Terminal three segments of funiculus continuously increasing in size forming an antennal club that is not very distinct. Antennal scrobes strongly developed, with an acute and marked dorsal margin; the frontal carinae short.</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="15.[805,1460,190,1600]" pageId="15" pageNumber="666">Compound eyes oval-shaped from lateral view and only slightly convex from dorsal view (see Fig 3.1; Fig S1.1A and S1.1B). Compound eyes large relative to head length spanning more than one third of HL. Maximum diameter of compound eyes 0.5 to 0.6 mm. Maximum width of head including compound eyes maximally 10% wider than HW. Ocelli relatively small in diameter. The two lateral ocelli widely spaced and the median ocellus always smaller in diameter than the distance between the two lateral ocelli.</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="15.[805,1460,190,1600]" pageId="15" pageNumber="666">Mesoscutum convexly rounded anterodorsally. Mesoscutellum nearly in horizontal plane in lateral view. Propodeum flattened dorsally and then drops off steeply posterior of the propodeal spiracle. Mesoscutum long, stretching out over approximately half of the alitrunk in lateral view. In dorsal view, the posterior margin of the propodeum forms a straight line and the mesonotum broadly triangular. Propodeum not armed with spines.</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="15.[805,1460,190,1600]" pageId="15" pageNumber="666">
Node of petiole in dorsal view roughly rectangular, anterior side broader than posterior one. Petiolar node quadrangular in shape in dorsal view and not as wide as postpetiolar node (PI&lt;1.0). In lateral view the petiole is anterodorsally flattened and sloping downwards and is slightly longer than the postpetiole. Postpetiole round in dorsal and lateral view without distinct nodes. (See
<tableCitation box="[1377,1459,1542,1566]" captionStart="Table 1" captionStartId="8.[130,193,131,155]" captionTargetBox="[130,1482,181,1302]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="Table 1. Overview of most distinct morphological characters of the Macaranga - associated Crematogaster (borneensis - group) species." httpUri="http://table.plazi.org/id/72C46651FF9B9C77A5E0C7C9FA160884" pageId="15" pageNumber="666" tableUuid="72C46651FF9B9C77A5E0C7C9FA160884">Table 1</tableCitation>
for comparative overview of queen characters.)
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection lastPageId="16" lastPageNumber="667" pageId="15" pageNumber="666" type="biology_ecology">
<paragraph blockId="15.[805,1069,1646,1670]" box="[805,1069,1646,1670]" pageId="15" pageNumber="666">
<emphasis box="[805,1069,1646,1670]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="666">Distribution and biology</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="15.[805,1459,1704,2006]" lastBlockId="16.[129,783,131,536]" lastPageId="16" lastPageNumber="667" pageId="15" pageNumber="666">
<taxonomicName authority="Andre" authorityName="Andre" box="[881,1242,1704,1728]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="666" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="borneensis">
<emphasis box="[881,1164,1704,1728]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="666">Crematogaster borneensis</emphasis>
André
</taxonomicName>
has a large range and occurs in all geographic regions of the
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="666">
Macaranga-
<taxonomicName box="[805,962,1774,1797]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="666" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Crematogaster</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
association (Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo). It is the most generalised species with respect to host plant use. Queens colonize mostly waxy hosts. However, hosts that develop a slight wax-coating only as mature trees will also be colonized secondarily by this species after having been abandoned due to death of the original colony (e.g.
<taxonomicName box="[864,1016,1982,2006]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Euphorbiaceae" genus="Macaranga" kingdom="Plantae" order="Malpighiales" pageId="15" pageNumber="666" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="indistincta">
<emphasis box="[864,1016,1982,2006]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="666">M. indistincta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). In this case queens of
<taxonomicName box="[1309,1459,1982,2006]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="666" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="borneensis">
<emphasis box="[1309,1459,1982,2006]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="666">C. borneensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are found in the tip of branches of abandoned mature hosts.
<taxonomicName box="[129,406,166,190]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="16" pageNumber="667" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="borneensis">
<emphasis box="[129,406,166,190]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="667">Crematogaster borneensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is frequently found on hosts of the section
<taxonomicName authority="Blume, 1826" authorityName="Blume" authorityYear="1826" box="[212,351,200,224]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Euphorbiaceae" genus="Pachystemon" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" order="Malpighiales" pageId="16" pageNumber="667" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[212,351,200,224]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="667">Pachystemon</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="667">
<taxonomicName box="[369,538,200,224]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Euphorbiaceae" genus="Macaranga" kingdom="Plantae" order="Malpighiales" pageId="16" pageNumber="667" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="aetheadenia">M. aetheadenia</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName box="[551,778,200,224]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Euphorbiaceae" genus="Macaranga" kingdom="Plantae" order="Malpighiales" pageId="16" pageNumber="667" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="glandibracteolata">M. glandibracteolata</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName box="[129,286,235,259]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Euphorbiaceae" genus="Macaranga" kingdom="Plantae" order="Malpighiales" pageId="16" pageNumber="667" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="griffithiana">M. griffithiana</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
,
<emphasis box="[304,775,235,259]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="667">
<taxonomicName box="[304,445,235,259]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Euphorbiaceae" genus="Macaranga" kingdom="Plantae" order="Malpighiales" pageId="16" pageNumber="667" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="lamellata">M. lamellata</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName box="[461,612,235,259]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Euphorbiaceae" genus="Macaranga" kingdom="Plantae" order="Malpighiales" pageId="16" pageNumber="667" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="motleyana">M. motleyana</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName box="[628,775,235,259]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Euphorbiaceae" genus="Macaranga" kingdom="Plantae" order="Malpighiales" pageId="16" pageNumber="667" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="hypoleuca">M. hypoleuca</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
,
<taxonomicName box="[129,276,270,294]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Euphorbiaceae" genus="Macaranga" kingdom="Plantae" order="Malpighiales" pageId="16" pageNumber="667" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="indistincta">
<emphasis box="[129,276,270,294]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="667">M. indistincta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, (in the latter two mainly in larger trees, rarely in saplings) as well as the section
<emphasis box="[515,622,305,328]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="667">Pruinosae</emphasis>
(
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="667">
<taxonomicName box="[642,738,304,328]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Euphorbiaceae" genus="Macaranga" kingdom="Plantae" order="Malpighiales" pageId="16" pageNumber="667" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="hosei">M. hosei</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Euphorbiaceae" genus="Macaranga" kingdom="Plantae" order="Malpighiales" pageId="16" pageNumber="667" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pearsonii">M. pearsonii</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName box="[239,370,339,363]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Euphorbiaceae" genus="Macaranga" kingdom="Plantae" order="Malpighiales" pageId="16" pageNumber="667" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="puberula">M. puberula</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName box="[379,506,340,363]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Euphorbiaceae" genus="Macaranga" kingdom="Plantae" order="Malpighiales" pageId="16" pageNumber="667" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pruinosa">M. pruinosa</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
). Virgin alate queens have been found to be parasitized by the phorid fly
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Phoridae" genus="Trucidophora" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="16" pageNumber="667" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="feldhaarae">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="667">Trucidophora feldhaarae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
while still inside the nest within the hollow stem of their host plant on Peninsula Malaysia (
<bibRefCitation author="Maschwitz, U. &amp; Feldhaar, H. &amp; Disney, R. H. L." box="[533,772,443,467]" journalOrPublisher="Sociobiology" pageId="16" pageNumber="667" pagination="811 - 828" part="47" refString="Maschwitz, U., Feldhaar, H. &amp; Disney, R. H. L. (2006). A virgin killer: The phorid Trucidophora feldhaarae sp. n. parasitizes female reproductives of obligate plant-ants of the genus Crematogaster (Diptera: Phoridae; Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Sociobiology, 47: 811 - 828." title="A virgin killer: The phorid Trucidophora feldhaarae sp. n. parasitizes female reproductives of obligate plant-ants of the genus Crematogaster (Diptera: Phoridae; Formicidae: Myrmicinae)" type="journal article" year="2006">Maschwitz et al., 2006</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="667" type="discussion">
<paragraph blockId="16.[129,783,131,536]" box="[204,782,478,502]" pageId="16" pageNumber="667">In former publications we have referred to this species</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="16.[129,783,131,536]" box="[129,599,512,536]" pageId="16" pageNumber="667">
as
<taxonomicName box="[157,317,513,536]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="16" pageNumber="667" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[157,317,513,536]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="667">Crematogaster</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
msp. 1 (
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).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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