Cataglyphis nodus caucasicola

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Cataglyphis nodus caucasicola
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Cataglyphis nodus)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Formicini
Genus: Cataglyphis
Species: Cataglyphis nodus caucasicola
Arnol'di, 1964

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Cataglyphis nodus.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • caucasicola. Cataglyphis nodus subsp. caucasicola Arnol'di, 1964: 1803, figs. 1, 2 (w.m.) GEORGIA. Junior synonym of noda: Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 153.

References

  • Arnol'di, K. V. 1964. Higher and specialized representatives of the ant genus Cataglyphis (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the fauna of the USSR. Zool. Zh. 4 43: 1800-1815 (page 1803, figs. 1, 2 worker, male described)
  • Dlussky, G. M.; Soyunov, O. S.; Zabelin, S. I. 1990 [1989]. Ants of Turkmenistan. Ashkhabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp. (page 153, Junior synonym of nodus)