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Cataglyphis niger
Creators
- 1. Economic Entomology Research Unit (EERU).
- 2. King Saud University Museum of Arthropods (KSMA).
Description
Cataglyphis niger (André, 1881)
(Fig. 5 c, d)
Myrmecocystus viaticus var. niger André, 188l: 56. Combination in Cataglyphis: Emery, 1925:265. Raised to species: Collingwood 1985:290.
This species was originally described from Israel and recorded from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Yemen (Collingwood, 1985; Collingwood and Agosti, 1996), UAE (Collingwood et al. 2011) and Syria (Santschi, 1929b). It is common at Rawdhat Khorim with peak abundance in June and decreasing during cooler months. Workers were collected from the following plants: Acacia gerrardii Benth (Fabaceae), C. procera, Rhazya stricta Decne (Apocynaceae) and Ziziphus nummularia (Burm. f) Wight & Arn. (Rhamnaceae).
Notes
Published as part of Sharaf, Mostafa R., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2013, The ants (Hymenoptera: formicidae) of Rawdhat Khorim Nature Preserve, Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species of the genus Tetramorium Mayr, pp. 565-580 in Zootaxa 3709 (6) on page 572, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3709.6.6, http://zenodo.org/record/6300018
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Cataglyphis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Andre
- Species
- niger
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cataglyphis niger (Andre, 1881) sec. Sharaf, Abdel-Dayem, Dhafer & Aldawood, 2013
References
- Emery, C. (1925) Hymenoptera, Fam. Formicidae, subfam. Formicinae. In: Wytsman, P. (Ed.), Genera Insectorum. Fasc. 183, pp. 1 - 302.
- Collingwood, C. A. (1985) Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna Saudi Arabia, 7, 230 - 302.
- Collingwood, C. A. & Agosti, D. (1996) Formicidae of Saudi Arabia (Part 2). Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 15, 300 - 385.
- Collingwood, C. A., Agosti, D., Sharaf, M. R. & Van Harten T. (2011) Order Hymenoptera, Family Formicidae. Arthropod Fauna of the UAE, 4, 405 - 474.
- Santschi, F. (1929 b) Etude sur les Cataglyphis. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 36, 25 - 70.