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<treatment id="2AB759B13F0B72E9200DDEDBA794E567" ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6275046" ID-GBIF-Taxon="100126208" ID-Zenodo-Dep="6275046" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:2AB759B13F0B72E9200DDEDBA794E567" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/2AB759B13F0B72E9200DDEDBA794E567" lastPageNumber="103" pageNumber="102">
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<paragraph id="D111E933457A4FAF3005C1F5BF4CD5E3" pageNumber="102">
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<taxonomicName id="BD1F5559E57449871EE4E4B3F33A6BF6" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:136868" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Crematogaster rochai Forel" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="102" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rochai">Crematogaster rochai Forel</taxonomicName>
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1903
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="5113EAA1F045A1B83B37E245C486589F">REVISED STATUS</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<paragraph id="DC42FF4D28504D3211854DB3EC0C680C" pageNumber="102">
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<taxonomicName id="4EA99D0F27F27A084088F64A13B8E2FF" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:136868" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Crematogaster rochai Forel" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="102" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rochai">Crematogaster rochai Forel</taxonomicName>
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, 1903:255.
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<materialsCitation id="CDB70A403E9CA46F7D10BC716FDFBBF9" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="1058481230" collectionCode="MHNG" collectorName="Diaz da Rocha" country="Brazil" stateProvince="Ceara" typeStatus="Syntype">
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<typeStatus id="3C6223E6B55A58F1FC760DE20CE4C955">Syntype</typeStatus>
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worker, queen, male:
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,
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(
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) [
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]
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(examined). Emery, 1922:134: combination in
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<taxonomicName id="D3D553E5C0B10C64EE2A3021B3580A0C" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183852" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Crematogaster (Orthocrema) Santschi" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="102" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Orthocrema">C. (Orthocrema)</taxonomicName>
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. Forel, 1912:213; Gallardo, 1934:21: race/subspecies of
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<taxonomicName id="FDB24E1204B7093E6115DAC2C2A1C57F" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:28108" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Crematogaster brevispinosa Mayr" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="102" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="brevispinosa">brevispinosa</taxonomicName>
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.
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<subSubSection id="9CC6B9DF3F73040D44E0E6D827489E9B" type="distribution">
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<paragraph id="6EEACCD1C4E353BD747514FF7707ED57" pageNumber="102">Range</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="1911F670F4444CA05718C554005F9276" pageNumber="102">Widespread in Neotropics from southern Mexico to Argentina.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="303E5B41A3E7EA11DFEFF50FCB9A736A" type="description">
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<paragraph id="B6DC4E3E72A169CAB85915111FE1EA64" pageNumber="102">Description of worker (Costa Rica)</paragraph>
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Differing from
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<taxonomicName id="851648C8AAC27ADCDE6189B91DA080D1" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:28145" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Crematogaster crinosa Mayr" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="102" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="crinosa">crinosa</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName id="3CCD31F06B38E57FE6940EBCBA9FCBE4" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:28451" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Crematogaster torosa Mayr" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="102" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="torosa">torosa</taxonomicName>
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by the following combination of characters: dorsal and posterior face of propodeum in nearly the same plane, such that the propodeal suture appears very shallow with no posterior wall, the propodeum forming a single declivity from the propodeal suture to the petiolar insertion (very large workers have a short dorsal face that drops to propodeal suture); promesonotum strongly arched, not flattened; anteroventral petiolar tooth long, sharply acute, triangular to spine-like; fourth abdominal tergite completely lacking erect setae.
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<paragraph id="BD10248E32C9879B84015089BE7261D2" pageNumber="102">Measurements</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="184EA17C415C4E94B3555BF0D39FD6BB" pageNumber="102">HL 0.851, 0.519, 1.139; HW 0.915, 0.535, 1.238; HC 0.905, 0.509, 1.207; SL 0.559, 0.375, 0.681; EL 0.198, 0.114, 0.257; A11L 0.247; A11W 0.123; A10L 0.110; A10W 0.104; A09L 0.062; A09W 0.078; A08L 0.045; A08W 0.060; WL 0.913, 0.500, 1.259; SPL 0.098, 0.069, 0.158; PTH 0.200, 0.121, 0.265; PTL 0.271, 0.158, 0.407; PTW 0.279, 0.166, 0.343; PPL 0.232, 0.128, 0.286; PPW 0.262, 0.167, 0.352; CI 108, 103, 109; OI 23, 22, 23; SI 66, 72, 60; PTHI 74, 77, 65; PTWI 103, 105, 84; PPI 113, 130, 123; SPI 11, 14, 13; ACI 0.57.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="2116A83DB505FA0780F11CBE2FB1F433" pageNumber="103">Queen (Costa Rica)</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="C1AFB1A28E7C9F098B0C2EF6A0DAA2BE" pageNumber="103">A normal queen (dorsal face of propodeum drops steeply from postscutellum and much of propodeum appears ventral to scutellum and postscutellum, Fig. 1) with general shape, sculpture, and pilosity characters of the worker; size characters as in Figures 4 and 5.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="B00BD0D80327C52596B0B0FD87AB6F82" type="biology_ecology">
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<paragraph id="3B067FF1A9BFF203947E3BBEE9DB232E" pageNumber="103">Biology</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="2E01DCE14E7DB8CBB25A65BC0B261F14" pageNumber="103">
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<taxonomicName id="07C95BEB7BE8A23956D87621393F7578" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:136868" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Crematogaster rochai Forel" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="103" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rochai">Crematogaster rochai</taxonomicName>
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has a biology very similar to
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<taxonomicName id="01D63486052D826523862CB2B7D5F213" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:28145" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Crematogaster crinosa Mayr" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="103" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="crinosa">crinosa</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName id="A4E20DB21F0F11425B0CC3C9F9AD87C6" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:28451" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Crematogaster torosa Mayr" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="103" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="torosa">torosa</taxonomicName>
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. It occurs primarily in open, seasonally dry areas, highly disturbed areas, pasture edges, and beach margins. It occasionally occurs in mangroves, although
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<taxonomicName id="E7CAAEC8D46DDAC7481B913893D1D888" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:28145" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Crematogaster crinosa Mayr" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="103" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="crinosa">crinosa</taxonomicName>
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is the more common mangrove inhabitant. I have never collected it in rainforest areas.
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<paragraph id="15CFB9B3E359DBDD8230EB1E97D1CC82" pageNumber="103">
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Nests are large, polydomous, and distributed in a wide variety of plant cavities. Dead branches and knots in living trees are most often used. In Guanacaste Province in Costa Rica colonies may occupy ant acacias and may invade acacias occupied by
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<taxonomicName id="F91DB3A74FC160EF2D2E35BA42186D63" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:24858" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pseudomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Pseudomyrmex Lund" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="103" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Pseudomyrmex</taxonomicName>
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. I have seen workers distributed in small chambers scattered in the corky bark of
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<taxonomicName id="06B7E14A38B3FB3C90CE3F2A29577AE4" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Bignoniaceae" genus="Tabebuia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" order="Lamiales" pageNumber="103" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">Tabebuia</taxonomicName>
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trees (Bignoniaceae) and
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<taxonomicName id="88A5BB4BBD2FA1D4A4DA4E1F5C016D85" class="Aves" family="Fringillidae" genus="Erythrina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Passeriformes" pageNumber="103" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Erythrina</taxonomicName>
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trees (Fabaceae). Workers often construct small carton baffles to restrict nest entrances and small carton pavilions that shelter Homoptera on surrounding vegetation.
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<paragraph id="03870075FD8E534D6F47888918E1DC7A" pageNumber="103">Foraging is primarily diurnal. Workers are generalized scavengers and they frequently visit extrafloral nectaries. Often columns of workers move between nests.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="546CAA2E867FCD2D511A97330FBA7BCD" pageNumber="103">
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I often find cockroach egg cases scattered in the nest chambers of
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<taxonomicName id="440C4875B2972E059F29AB51570727B4" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:136868" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Crematogaster rochai Forel" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="103" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rochai">C. rochai</taxonomicName>
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, at a much higher density than in the environment generally. The nature of the relationship between cockroaches and the
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<taxonomicName id="8C478A47CF72973F23A64B0E83C2B21E" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:28145" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Crematogaster crinosa Mayr" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="103" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="crinosa">crinosa</taxonomicName>
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group would be worth investigation.
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<subSubSection id="8D09F780136F23A8658A89FB904B676D" type="discussion">
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<paragraph id="2D722131B0FAC7A2D2C892847F5E7F6D" pageNumber="103">Comments</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="A659CD64946BF0162A5FA54DE819EF75" pageNumber="103">
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This is a member of the
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<taxonomicName id="3327E3599979F50FC339F38AD81C52C6" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:28145" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Crematogaster crinosa Mayr" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="103" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="crinosa">crinosa</taxonomicName>
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complex and may not always be distinguishable from
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<taxonomicName id="E5FE1D364547B5138CDDF945B8BADE19" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:28145" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Crematogaster crinosa Mayr" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="103" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="crinosa">crinosa</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName id="1C3CC42751F8EE27E6FC3CA12443935D" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:28451" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Crematogaster torosa Mayr" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="103" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="torosa">torosa</taxonomicName>
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. See under
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for further discussion. In Costa Rica
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always has the fourth abdominal tergite completely devoid of erect setae, and the anteroventral petiolar process is long and sharp. Costa Rican material also lacks a differentiated dorsal face of the propodeum, but material from central and southern South America develops a stronger propodeal suture, thus approaching the condition in other
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<taxonomicName id="CCDF0C4B920535FB28E07BB6E2E7C12A" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:28145" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Crematogaster" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Crematogaster crinosa Mayr" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="103" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="crinosa">crinosa</taxonomicName>
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group material. Also, southern material often has one to five erect setae on the anterolateral portions of the fourth abdominal tergite.
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