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<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDDFFF1FCC8794EFB7B6267" box="[875,1237,1070,1094]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="926">CREMATOGASTER VERMICULATA</emphasis>
EMERY, 1895
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(
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<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDDFFF1FC98791EFB2A62B3" box="[827,1156,1149,1171]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="926">Crematogaster vermiculata</emphasis>
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. Two
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workers, Los Angeles (Pergande) (MSNG) (examined). One worker here designated
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(CASENT0923320). See comments below about type locality.
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<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDDFFF1FC987877FBF2630D" box="[827,1116,1303,1324]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="926">Crematogaster coarctata</emphasis>
subsp.
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Emery
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;
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.
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<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDDFFF1FC987834FB3B6348" box="[827,1173,1364,1385]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="926">Crematogaster vermiculata</emphasis>
Emery
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;
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<bibRefCitation id="EFA14B01FFDDFFF1FAA47834FCDF63A9" author="Buren WF" pageId="33" pageNumber="926" pagination="91 - 121" refId="ref34863" refString="Buren WF. 1968. A review of the species of Crematogaster, sensu stricto, in North America (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Part II. Descriptions of new species. Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society 3: 91 - 121." type="journal article" year="1968">Buren 1968: 91</bibRefCitation>
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, 112.
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Senior synonym of
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<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDDFFF1FB9E78F1FA916387" box="[1085,1343,1425,1446]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="926">Crematogaster colei</emphasis>
Buren
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,
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<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDDFFF1FCF078D0FC7463E4" box="[851,986,1456,1477]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="926">C. opuntiae</emphasis>
Buren
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and
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<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDDFFF1FBCF78D0FB6A63E4" box="[1132,1220,1456,1477]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="926">C. rossi</emphasis>
Buren (
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)
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; here reversed.
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<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDDFFF1FC987B75FBFA600B" box="[827,1108,1557,1579]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="926">Worker measurements (</emphasis>
N
<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDDFFF1FBD07B76FB16600B" box="[1139,1208,1557,1579]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="926">= 10):</emphasis>
HW 0.670.85, HL 0.640.81, SL 0.520.63, WL 0.720.93, MtFL 0.56 0.7, MSC 39, A4SC 920, PP-SL/HW 0.140.21, CI 1.011.08, OI 0.230.26, SI 0.720.78, MtFL/HW 0.790.84, SPL/HW 0.170.21, SPTD/HW 0.390.48.
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<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDDFFF1FC987BBCFC6F60D0" box="[827,961,1756,1777]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="926">Discussion:</emphasis>
This is a distinctive arboreal species of
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<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDDFFF1FC987B9BFC456131" box="[827,1003,1787,1808]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="926">Crematogaster</emphasis>
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restricted to cypress and hardwood swamps of the south-eastern
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. It belongs to the
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<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDDFFF1FC247A58FBA3616C" box="[903,1037,1848,1869]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="926">C. lineolata</emphasis>
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clade, and its closest relatives are the Caribbean species,
<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDDFFF1FBEA7A37FB7F614A" box="[1097,1233,1878,1900]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="926">C. lucayana</emphasis>
and
<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDDFFF1FAAE7A37FA0D614D" box="[1293,1443,1879,1900]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="926">C. sanguinea</emphasis>
(
<figureCitation id="130B2A75FFDEFFF2FF387DA5FF4666FB" box="[155,232,197,219]" captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="5.[163,246,1512,1534]" captionTargetBox="[245,1361,198,1469]" captionTargetId="figure-121@5.[241,1364,195,1472]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="Figure 1. Phylogeny of the North American Crematogaster scutellaris group. Maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree estimated from the 90% taxon completeness matrix after application of spruceup trimming with a 0.98 cut-off (90%-0.98-spruceup), using a combined best tree and ultrafast bootstrap (N = 1000) search in IQ-TREE v.1.6.12 and implementing 746 partitions. The analysis was rooted using the most distantly related outgroup taxon C. cf.rogenhoferi; the long branch leading to this taxon has been shortened for space-saving purposes. All nodes have bootstrap support = 100% unless labelled otherwise. Species images courtesy of AntWeb (www.antweb.org)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10115065" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/10115065/files/figure.png" pageId="34" pageNumber="927">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
). Workers of
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are easily recognized by the striking rugulose sculpture on the promesonotum that imparts a vermiculate (worm-like) appearance, a feature not seen in any other species in the
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.
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<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDEFFF2FEC77C20FD396774" box="[356,663,320,341]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="927">Crematogaster vermiculata</emphasis>
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also has notably short scapes and legs (SI 0.720.78, SL/HL 0.750.82, MtFL/HW 0.790.84, MtFL/HL 0.840.89) and moderately conspicuous standing pilosity on the mesosoma (uo to four hairs on each pronotal humerus and one to three on the mesonotal declivity) and on the gaster (MSC 39, A4SC 920). The propodeal spines are relatively short and stout (SPL/HW 0.17 0.21, SPL/WL 0.150.19) and, in dorsal view, inwardly curved and directed posterad (SPTD/HW 0.390.48). Although the
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locality is Los Angeles,
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, the
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specimens agree in all respects with the wellknown swamp-inhabiting species of the south-eastern
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, and there is no species in
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or indeed in all of western North America that matches
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<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDEFFF2FF5B7E6CFE316500" box="[248,415,780,801]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="927">C. vermiculata</emphasis>
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. Hence we concur with
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and
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that the
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locality cited in the original description (Los Angeles) is an error. This is by no means the only locality or labelling error that can be attributed to Pergande; see other examples cited by
<bibRefCitation id="EFA14B01FFDEFFF2FEA37EC5FE4B659A" author="Gregg RE" box="[256,485,933,955]" pageId="34" pageNumber="927" pagination="93 - 101" refId="ref35840" refString="Gregg RE. 1969. New species of Pheidole from Pacific Coast islands (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomological News 80: 93 - 101." type="journal article" year="1969">Gregg (1969: 101)</bibRefCitation>
,
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and
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.
<bibRefCitation id="EFA14B01FFDEFFF2FE397EA4FDE465FB" author="Buren WF" box="[410,586,964,986]" pageId="34" pageNumber="927" pagination="91 - 121" refId="ref34863" refString="Buren WF. 1968. A review of the species of Crematogaster, sensu stricto, in North America (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Part II. Descriptions of new species. Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society 3: 91 - 121." type="journal article" year="1968">Burens (1968)</bibRefCitation>
findings were overlooked by
<bibRefCitation id="EFA14B01FFDEFFF2FE977E83FDF865D9" author="Morgan C &amp; Mackay W" box="[308,598,994,1016]" pageId="34" pageNumber="927" refId="ref36528" refString="Morgan C, Mackay W. 2017. The North America acrobat ants of the hyperdiverse genus Crematogaster. Balti, Moldova: Lambert Academic Publishing." type="book" year="2017">Morgan &amp; Mackay (2017)</bibRefCitation>
, who reverted to an outdated concept of
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<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDEFFF2FE1A7961FDCE6237" box="[441,608,1025,1046]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="927">C. vermiculata</emphasis>
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as a western Nearctic species, with outlying populations in southeastern
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, and they synonymized three western species (
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<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDEFFF2FEC0793DFE146253" box="[355,442,1117,1138]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="927">C. colei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDEFFF2FE68793DFDF86252" box="[459,598,1117,1139]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="927">C. opuntiae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C304D73FFDEFFF2FD35793DFD5E6252" authorityName="Buren (Morgan &amp; Mackay" authorityYear="2017" box="[662,752,1117,1139]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="34" pageNumber="927" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rossi">
<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDEFFF2FD35793DFD5E6252" box="[662,752,1117,1139]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="927">C. rossi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) under
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<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDEFFF2FF78791CFE2F62B0" box="[219,385,1148,1169]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="927">C. vermiculata</emphasis>
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. These three taxa are not closely related to
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<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDEFFF2FEA679FBFE04628E" box="[261,426,1178,1200]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="927">C. vermiculata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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), nor do they bear any close morphological resemblance to that species.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B944EAE2FFDEFFF2FF32799EFEA36332" box="[145,269,1278,1299]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="927">Type notes:</emphasis>
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The
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of
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are deposited in MSNG [not MHNG, as indicated by
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] and are labelled Los
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|Calif. and
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|
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|ver miculata|det.
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, 1895. One of the
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also has a label with No.|372. The latter worker has been designated
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.
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are four similar workers in the USNM labelled
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|
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,
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|372 and
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|
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, and one of these is additionally labelled
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|vermiculata|
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(372)
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in
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handwriting.
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in USNM are not true types, since
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(1895: 286) description is based on
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only, but they appear to be part of the same series.
<collectorName id="26C55326FFDEFFF2FDE47BECFDC76083" box="[583,617,1676,1698]" pageId="34" pageNumber="927">All</collectorName>
<specimenCount id="9D36FD79FFDEFFF2FDD27BECFD576083" box="[625,761,1676,1698]" pageId="34" pageNumber="927" type="worker">six workers</specimenCount>
agree closely with
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(1895) original description, particularly his mention of the almost parallel propodeal spines and the peculiar worm-like sinuous wrinkled sculpture of the promesonotum
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.
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Distribution and biology:
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occurs from
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to
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and west to
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and
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. It is a strictly arboreal species, inhabiting cypress and hardwood swamps (
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;
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).
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