Crematogaster (Crematogaster) ruspolii Forel

Type location Ethiopia (Forel, 1892b: 142, worker & male); subspecies atriscapis (Forel 1915c: 338, worker) from Zaïre, collected at St Gabriel, by Kohl; worker and male described (Bolton, 1995) .

Forel's (1892b) description is at .

Bequaert (in Wheeler, 1922, p 407) cited atriscapis as collected by Father Kohl from in myrmecophilous plants.

The latter was described in Forel (1915c) as -
TL 3.1-3.6 mm; darker than type, black; funiculus and tarsi rust brown; lower legs dark brown; scapes black. Postpetiole deeply scalloped posteriorly (less so in the type), anterior with a longitudinal notch. Head slightly more strongly puncturate than type; antennae slightly longer and slimmer, reaching the occiput.
Collected by Kohl at St. Gabriel, Kisangani, Zaïre. Construct carton nests of 10-40 height and 20-25 cm diameter. Cultivate colonies of coccids in trees, covering them with carton tents. Forel (1916) noted that the collections including one on cocoa, cultivating large [numbers] of coccids, with the carton often enveloping the small fruits, whose development was arrested.

The queen shown at the bottom appears to be the first record of a queen of this species.

The photomontage is of a specimen from the Central African Republic, Dzanga-Sangha National Park; site DF; 04°17’54.9" N 17°22’16.7" E; 537 m; 20.i.2005, Après Boda direction N’goto; collector Philippe Annoyer. Other images can be seen in the folders at - and

The photomontage is of a queen from the Central African Republic, Dzanga-Sangha National Park; site DM; 002°48’20.5" N 16°06’14.0" E 350m Camp 1; 25.i.2005; collector Philippe Annoyer..