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Cataglyphis fortis Agosti 1990

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Description

Cataglyphis fortis (Forel)

Myrmecocystus albicans var. fortis Forel, 1902a: 156. Syntypes worker, Algeria (Tougourt, sur le chemin de Temacin, leg. Diehl.), MHNG [examined]. [Later changes: Cataglyphis (Cataglyphis) albicans var. fortis, Emery, 1925: 262; Cataglyphis (Cataglyphis) albicans st.fortis, Santschi, 1929a: 55, Cataglyphis fortis, Wehner, 1983: 95.] (Descriptions of female and male: Wehner, 1983: 95; male genitalia: Wehner, 1983: 103, figs 9, 10; biology: Bernard, 1953, Wehner, 1983.)

Cataglyphis halophila Barnard, 1953: 48. Syntypes 5 workers, Tunisia (Chott Djerid, El Mensof, May 1951, leg. Bernard); Paratypes: 1 worker Algeria (Biskra, 1894, leg. Chobaut), MNHP [examined]. [Synonymy by Wehner, 1983: 95.]

Notes

Published as part of Agosti, Donat, 1990, Review and reclassification of Cataglyphis (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), pp. 1457-1505 in Journal of Natural History 24 on page 1493, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14982

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Formicidae
Genus
Cataglyphis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Agosti
Species
fortis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cataglyphis fortis Agosti, 1990 sec. Agosti, 1990

References

  • Forel, A., 1902 a, Les fourmis du Sahara Algerien, Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 46, 147 - 158.
  • Emery, C., 1925, in P. Wytsman (ed.), Genera Insectorum, Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Subfam. Formicinae, fase. 182,302 pp.
  • Santschi, F., 1929 a, Etudes sur les Cataglyphis, Revue Suisse Zoologique, 36, 25 - 70.
  • Wehner, R., 1983, Taxonomie, Funktionsmorphologie und Zoogeographie der saharischen Wuestenameise Cataglyphis fortis (Forel 1902) stat. nov. (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Senckenbergiana Biologica, 64, 89 - 132.
  • Bernard, F., 1953, Une fourmis nouvelle: Cataglyphis halophila nichant au milieu du Chott Djerid, Bulletin de la Societe des Sciences Naturelles de Tunisie, 6, 47 - 56.