Crematogaster telolafy

Crematogaster telolafy Blaimer, 2012b PDF: 53, fig. 29 (w.) MADAGASCAR. Malagasy. Primary type information: Madagascar, Toliara: P.N. Zombitse: -22.84333, 44.71000, 770m, tropical dry forest, sifted litter, 5–9.ii.2003, coll. B.L.Fisher et al., BLF07510(19); CASENT0032779; CASC AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Combination in Crematogaster (Orthocrema): Blaimer, 2012c PDF: 55.

No colony collections of Crematogaster telolafy have been made that could give clues on the biology of this species. It has been collected by methods of litter sifting, malaise, pitfall and pan traps, as well as beating low vegetation. Crematogaster telolafy is distributed mainly in the dry and spiny forests of southern and western Madagascar at low elevations (Figure 29B), with some notable exceptions of records from remnant patches of western rainforest, e.g. Rés. Ambohijanahary, or gallery forest such as exists in the Isalo region. This species is allopatric with the closely related Crematogaster madecassa (see above), except for a narrow sympatry or parapatry in the Andohahela region, where one collection of Crematogaster telolafy has been made in low elevation rainforest. Otherwise Crematogaster telolafy occurs in sympatry only with Crematogaster rasoherinae among the species treated here.