Crematogaster gavapiga, Menozzi, 1935

Hosoishi, Shingo & Ogata, Kazuo, 2016, Systematics and biogeography of the ant genus Crematogaster Lund subgenus Orthocrema Santschi in Asia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176 (3), pp. 547-606 : 583

CREMATOGASTER GAVAPIGA MENOZZI, 1935

Crematogaster (Orthocrema) gavapiga Menozzi, 1935: 109 , fig. 5;

worker, Tjampea , Java, Indonesia (2389) (probably in IEGG, not seen).

Crematogaster gavapiga ; Blaimer, 2012c: 55 [Combination in C. ( Orthocrema )].

Comments: We have not been able to examine the types of C. gavapiga . From the original description and key provided by Menozzi (1935), this species is close to C. bandarensis . He distinguished C. gavapiga from C. bandarensis by smooth and shining surface of dorsal mesosoma. However, some specimens in our collections of C. bandarensis have smooth and shining surface of dorsal mesosoma, suggesting that the character state seen in C. gavapiga is within the infraspecific variation of C. bandarensis . Taxonomic relationship with C. bandarensis will remain uncertain until type material can be examined.