Macaranga glandibracteolata

Heike Feldhaar, Ulrich Maschwitz & Brigitte Fiala, 2016, Taxonomic Revision of the Obligate Plant-Ants of the Genus Crematogaster Lund (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae), Associated with Macaranga Thouars (Euphorbiaceae) on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula, Sociobiology 63 (1), pp. 651-681 : 670

glandibracteolata , M. hullettii , M. indistincta , M. petanostyla , M. trachyphylla , M. umbrosa , the non-waxy form of M. aetheadenia , and the thinly wax-covered M. glandibracteolata as an exception of a glaucous host species).

Queens colonize seedlings as well as the tips of mature hosts that have been abandoned due to the loss of the original colony. On Peninsula Malaysia secondarily polygynous colonies that contained several queens have been found locally in the Gombak area.

In former publications by our group this species was referred to as Crematogaster msp. 4 ( Fiala et al., 1999; Feldhaar et al., 2003a; Feldhaar et al., 2003b).