Crematogaster castanea
| Red cocktail ant | |
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| Worker with treehopper nymph | |
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| A colony's arboreal carton nest | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Genus: | Crematogaster |
| Species: | C. castanea |
| Binomial name | |
| Crematogaster castanea F.Smith, 1858 | |
Crematogaster castanea is a species of ant in tribe Crematogastrini.[1] It was described by Smith in 1858.[1]
Subspecies
There are 20 named subspecies:
- C. c. adusta
- C. c. analis
- C. c. aquila
- C. c. arborea
- C. c. bruta
- C. c. busschodtsi
- C. c. castanea
- C. c. durbanensis
- C. c. ferruginea
- C. c. hararica
- C. c. insidiosa
- C. c. inversa
- C. c. mediorufa
- C. c. museisapientiae
- C. c. rufimembrum
- C. c. rufonigra
- C. c. simia
- C. c. tricolor
- C. c. ulugurensis
- C. c. yambatensis
References
Wikispecies has information related to Crematogaster castanea.
- ^ a b "Crematogaster Lund, 1831". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 October 2014.