Cataglyphis livida
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; & Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA;
- 2. Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, FL, USA;
- 3. Agriculture Affairs, Ministry of Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture, Kingdom of Bahrain;
- 4. Section of Zoology-Marine Biology and Zoological Museum, Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece;
- 5. Research Laboratory of Biogeography and Wildlife Parasitology (RLBWP), Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbassia, Egypt
- 6. Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia;
Description
Cataglyphis livida (André, 1881)
(Figure 9)
Myrmecocystus albicans var. lividus André, 1881a, p. 58 (in text) (w.) Israel. Palaearctic.
Diagnosis
Worker. Uniform yellow; petiole with a flat dorsal surface sloping anteriorly; mesonotum sides, propodeum, and coxae covered with pale appressed pubescence; body shining.
Material examined. One site: 11.
Geographic range. The geographic distribution in the Palaearctic region is not clear due to the mislabelling of the type material of C. livida and C. viaticoides, which led to confusion (Salata et al. 2021). This species has a wide distribution on the Arabian Peninsula (Collingwood 1985; Collingwood and Agosti 1996; Collingwood et al. 2011). Its occurrence in Egypt, Israel, Syria, and Antalya Province in Turkey is also confirmed.
Ecology and biology. Nests were found next to Acacia gerrardii Benth in the Riyadh Province (KSA) with two population peaks during spring and June (Sharaf and Aldawood 2013).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Andre
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Cataglyphis
- Species
- livida
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cataglyphis livida (Andre, 1881) sec. Sharaf, Wetterer, Mohamed, Georgiadis, Nasser & Aldawood, 2024
References
- Andre E. 1881 a. Catalogue raisonne des Formicides provenant du voyage en Orient de M. Abeille de Perrin et description des especes nouvelles. Ann Soc Entom Fr. 6 (1): 53 - 78.
- Salata S, Kiyani H, Minaei K, Borowiec L. 2021. Taxonomic review of the Cataglyphis livida complex (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with a description of a new species from Iran. ZooKeys. 1010: 117 - 131. doi: 10.3897 / zookeys. 1010.58348.
- Collingwood CA. 1985. Hymenoptera: fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna Saudi Arabia. 7: 230 - 302. doi: 10.5281 / zenodo. 26692.
- Collingwood CA, Agosti D. 1996. Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (part 2). Fauna Saudi Arabia. 15: 300 - 385.
- Collingwood CA, Agosti D, Sharaf MR, van Harten A. 2011. Order Hymenoptera, family Formicidae. Arthropod Fauna UAE. 4: 405 - 474. doi: 10.5281 / zenodo. 1168586.
- Sharaf MR, Aldawood AS. 2013. First occurrence of the Monomorium hildebrandti - group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), in the Arabian Peninsula, with description of a new species M. kondratieffi n. sp. Proc Entomol Soc Wash. 115 (1): 75 - 84. doi: 10.4289 / 0013 - 8797.115.1.75.