Crematogaster dohrni artifex Mayr, 1878

Hamer, Matthew T., Lee, Jonathan Hon Chung, Tse, Cheung Yau Leo, Silva, Thiago S. R. & Guénard, Benoit, 2022, Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy, Asian Myrmecology (e 015006) 15, pp. 1-152 : 75

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474259
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treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Crematogaster dohrni artifex Mayr, 1878
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Crematogaster dohrni artifex Mayr, 1878 View in CoL [erroneously printed as 1879 in AntCat and AntWeb]

Material examined. None available.

Material not physically examined. Syntype – CASENT0919683, ANTC41462 ( NHMW) [type of C. artifex ] .

Literature. Type – Mayr (1878) [as C. artifex ]. Viehmeyer (1916), Overbeck (1924) [both as C. artifex ].

Localities. Changi (type locality); Jurong Road.

Habitat/Ecology. The ants were found in Nepenthes pitcher cups, presumably in mature or old secondary forest. Colonies were also found housed in fairly large pasteboard nests around branches of trees and shrubs, with smaller satellite nests of similar substrate on neighbouring leaves sheltering scale insects ( Coccidae ).

Remarks. Type locality in Singapore. Crematogaster dohrni artifex was first described as C. artifex Mayr, 1878 ; status as subspecies of C. dohrni was first suggested by Forel (1902), but only formally established by Emery (1922).