Crematogaster crinosa Mayr, 1862

Aguilar-Mendez, Mario J., Rosas-Mejia, Madai, Vasquez-Bolanos, Miguel, Gonzalez-Hernandez, Gloria Angelica & Janda, Milan, 2021, New distributional records for ants and the evaluation of ant species richness and endemism patterns in Mexico, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 60630-60630 : 60630

Crematogaster crinosa Mayr, 1862

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: adult; reproductiveCondition: non-reproductive; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia ; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Formicidae ; genus: Crematogaster ; scientificNameAuthorship: Mayr , 1862; Location : country: Mexico; stateProvince: Nuevo León; locality: Cumbres (Las Adjuntas) ; verbatimElevation: 723 m; decimalLatitude: 25.29747; decimalLongitude: -100.13781; Identification: identifiedBy: Aguilar-Méndez M.J.; Rosas-Mejía M.; Vásquez-Bolaños M.; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand collecting; year: 2016; month: 9; day: 1; habitat: pine-oak forest

Distribution

Crematogaster crinosa Mayr, 1862 is an ant species with a wide distribution in America, from Argentina to the State of Colorado in the U.S. Distribution in Mexico is recorded for more than half of the States including San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas, both of which border the Nuevo León State, where we newly record their presence. Crematogaster crinosa was found in a pine-oak forest of Las Adjuntas locality at Cumbres mountain system in Monterrey, Nuevo León (amt is 19.3 ºC and 61.8 mm/cm2 of amp).

Biology

Crematogaster crinosa can be found commonly in seasonally dry areas, but also in the high canopy or disturbed areas of wet forests, due to their preference for highly isolated areas. These ants can also dominate the ant population in mangroves. They are considered an omnivorous species. C. crinosa have been reported scavenging for insects, visiting extrafloral nectarines and tending scale insects ( Longino 2003).