Crematogaster (Crematogaster) stigmata Santschi

Type location Nigeria (Santschi, 1914d: 344, illustrated, worker & male), collected at Olokemeji by F. Silvestri; worker and male only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1914d) description is at .

Crematogaster (Crematogaster) species C/F409 Nigeria specimens

WORKER - TL variable 3.27-4.04 mm, largest HL 0.92, HW 1.01, SL 0.62, PW 0.59
Colour dark brown-black, shiny. Lateral mesonotum, propodeum and pedicel spiculate, some specimens striate on the alitrunk. Pilosity sparse, erect hairs also sparse but about 10 on the pronotum. Alitrunk profile slightly concave, metanotal groove not impressed, mesonotum with an angled posterior face. Propodeal spines near top of declivity and sharp. Subpetiolar spine short and acute triangular.

In Nigeria it was rarely found foraging on shrubs and cocoa.

The photomontage is of specimens collected in Cameroun - south-western tropical coastal forest area between Edéa and Campo (McKey Wolbachia project) - Cameroon 03 from location Ebodjé, 24 March 2001, on Barteria nigritiana. Other images can be seen in the folder at -