Taxonomy in the phylogenomic era: species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships among North American ants of the Crematogaster scutellaris group (Formicidae: Hymenoptera) Author Ward, Philip S. Author Blaimer, Bonnie B. text Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2022 2022-03-08 194 3 893 937 https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab047 journal article 309412 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab047 87516ea0-dad4-4431-9092-f05b5f5fe476 0024-4082 10115063 6144DD31-0F7B-4589-86A3-F40994452C9

Table 2. Differences between workers of Crematogaster coarctata and C. californica

Trait	C. coarctata	C. californica
Predominant promesonotal sculpture	longitudinally striate, sublucid	reticulate-foveolate, opaque
Eye size	smaller, ED/SL 0.28–0.32	larger, ED/SL 0.32–0.37
Metafemur length	longer, MtFL/WL 0.83–0.92	shorter, MtFL/WL 0.78–0.84
Eye size/metafemur length ratio	smaller, ED/MtFL 0.25–0.28	larger, ED/MtFL 0.29–0.32
Standing pilosity on pronotum	more common, MSC 1–8	sparser, MSC 1–4
Typical number of setae on each humerus	2–3	1