Crematogaster (Crem.) laestrygon Emery
Type location Sicily (Emery, 1869a: 1, worker; Baroni
Urbani, 1964b: 43, queen); junior synonym vaucheri (Crematogaster
auberti st laestrygon var vaucheri, Santschi,
1921d: 71; as ssp, Emery, 1926: 2, worker; synonymy by
Collingwood, 1978: 69) from Morocco; subspecies airensis
(Crematogaster laestrygon st airensis, Santschi,
1937e: 309, worker & male) from Niger, atlantis
(Crematogaster laestrygon var atlantis, Santschi,
1937e: 306, all forms) from Algeria, canariensis (Crematogaster
laestrygon ssp maura var canariensis, Emery,
1926: 3; Crematogaster laestrygon ssp canariensis,
Barquin, 1981: 146, worker) from Canary Is, diminuta
(Crematogaster laestrygon var diminuta, Santschi,
1910a: 43, worker) from Tunisia, granulata (Crematogaster
laestrygon var granulata, Santschi, 1910a: 43, worker)
from Tunisia, maura (Crematogaster auberti
r laestrygon var maura, Forel, 1894d: 25; Crematogaster
auberti var maura, Forel, 1909c: 104, worker) from
Algeria, striaticeps (Crematogaster auberti
r laestrygon var striaticeps, Forel, 1902g: 462;
Crematogaster laestrygon var striaticeps, Forel,
1909c: 104, worker) from Algeria, submaura (Crematogaster
laestrygon var submaura, Lomnicki, 1925b: 1) from the
Balearic Is., and theryi (Crematogaster
auberti st theryi, Sanyschi, 1921d: 71, worker;
Santschi, 1937e: 309, queen) from Morocco; unavailable
name vivax (Crematogaster auberti st laestrygon
var vivax, Santschi, 1929e: 149, worker) from Morocco.
Emery's (1869b) description is at
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Emery's (1926) description of crawleyi is at
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Santschi (1937e: 301) distinguished the laestrygon-groups
of species by their having a low convexity to the mesonotum;
compared to the more convex auberti; and separated from
inermis by the presence of a spine or tooth on the
propodeum. |
Egypt
records - Mohammed (1979) stated that "Storey (1912)
mentioned that species is found in Suez road" [Storey, G.B.A.
(1912) List of the Hymenoptera Tubulifera and Aculeata
in the collection of the Ministry of Agriculture of Egypt. Bull.Soc.Ent.Egypte,
3:102-103]. 
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