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Issue: Vol. 2999 No. 1: 19 Aug. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-08-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2999.1.6
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 28
PDF downloaded: 13

Rediscovery of Crematogaster subgenus Colobocrema (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Southeast Asia

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, 890-0065 Japan
Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8601 Japan (present address: Research Core for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, 700-8530 Japan)
Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501 Japan
Hymenoptera queen redescription worker male host plants taxonomic status

Abstract

The Crematogaster subgenus Colobocrema was established to include the single species C. cylindriceps Wheeler, based on a single queen from the Philippines. We discovered a species close to or the same as C. cylindriceps in Borneo and provide descriptions of the queen, worker and male. This species lives in live climber plants of secondary and primary rainforests. The phragmotic morphology characterising the queen caste is considered an adaptation to a stem-inhabiting life style.

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