Indian Journal of Entomology
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  • Year: 2024
  • Volume: 86
  • Issue: 3

New distributional records of ants of genus Crematogaster lund (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from India

  • Author:
  • Anand Harshana1,2,3,*, Debjani Dey1
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Published Online: Mar 1, 2025
  • Page Number: 805 to 810

1National Pusa Collection, Division of Entomology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012, India

2The Graduate School, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012, India

3Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture (RVSKVV), Indore452001, Madhya Pradesh, India

*Email: anandharshana@gmail.com (corresponding author): Orcid Id 0000-0001-7266-4912

Online published on 1 April, 2025.

Abstract

New locality records and illustrations for five known species viz., Crematogaster biroi Mayr, 1897, C. contemta Mayr, 1879, C. dohrni artifex Mayr, 1879, C. rothneyi Mayr, 1879, and C. subnuda Mayr, 1879 are provided from India. These records expand the area of occurrence and distribution of these species in India. In addition, Crematogaster travancorensis Forel (1902) is redescribed based on the worker caste collected from Pachmarhi, Madhya Pradesh and Ri Bhoi, Meghalaya, India.

Keywords

Acrobat ants, Central India, Taxonomy, Crematogaster, Crematogastrini, Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, New records, Redescription, Geographical distribution