Cataglyphis setipes

Cataglyphis setipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Formicini
Genus:	Cataglyphis
Species group:	bicolor
Species:	C. setipes
Binomial name
Cataglyphis setipes (Forel, 1894) Specimen Labels
Synonyms
Cataglyphis setipes dschambulica Tarbinsky, 1976

This species inhabits subtropical areas and is relatively easy to find because they preferentially occupy open habitats. These ants have been observed to form permanent nests in dry soil; nests can be easily located in bare ground and along roadside. Workers of this species usually forage individually and raise gaster in locomotion (Wachkoo & Bharti, 2015). Pashaei Rad et al. (2018) found this species in Iran on the ground in a moderate rainfall area.

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Cataglyphis species of Asia

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 41.508577° to 25.2666°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Oriental Region: India (type locality), Pakistan.
Palaearctic Region: Azerbaijan, Iran, Türkiye.

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.

Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.

Biology

In Turkmenistan this species is parasitized by the ant Cataglyphis zakharovi.

Castes

Images from AntWeb

Worker. Specimen code antweb1008064. Photographer Elham Kashani, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by ULM, Universität Ulm, Ulm, Germany.

Nomenclature

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

• setipes. Myrmecocystus viaticus r. setipes Forel, 1894c: 401 (w.) INDIA (Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh).
  • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
  • Type-localities: India: Rajputana, Nusseerabad (Glardon), India: Rai Bardi (Simpson), India: Pachmarhi, nr Jubulpore, 3558 ft (Schurr).
  • Type-depositories: DAPC, MHNG.
  • Ruzsky, 1902d: 9 (q.m.); Imai, et al. 1984: 9 (k.).
  • Combination in Cataglyphis: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 945.
  • Subspecies of viatica: Ruzsky, 1902d: 9; Forel, 1904b: 382; Ruzsky, 1905b: 430; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 945.
  • Subspecies of bicolor: Emery, 1906d: 58; Emery, 1908g: 217; Karavaiev, 1910b: 39; Karavaiev, 1912b: 591; Emery, 1925b: 266; Santschi, 1929b: 49; Karavaiev, 1932: 250; Eidmann, 1942: 254.
  • Status as species: Bingham, 1903: 312; Mukerjee, 1930: 162; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 203; Collingwood, 1961a: 65; Collingwood, 1961b: 289; Arnol'di, 1964: 1804; Pisarski, 1967: 418; Pisarski, 1970: 324; Tarbinsky, 1976: 199; Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 554 (in key); Dlussky, 1981a: 18; Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 155; Agosti, 1990b: 1490; Bolton, 1995b: 137; Radchenko, 1997c: 434; Radchenko, 1998: 504 (in key); Tiwari, 1999: 67; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 345; Schultz, R. et al. 2006: 205; Paknia, et al. 2008: 154; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 10; Borowiec, L. 2014: 60; Wachkoo & Bharti, 2015a: 3 (redescription); Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 27; Khalili-Moghadam, et al. 2019: 169; Rasheed, et al. 2019: 429.
  • Senior synonym of dschambulica: Radchenko, 1997c: 435.
  • Senior synonym of turcomanica: Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 155; Radchenko, 1997c: 435.
  • [Note: Radchenko, 1997c: 435, gave longipedem as junior synonym of setipes, but if the synonymy is correct then longipedem has priority.]
  • Material of the unavailable name setipesdesertorum referred here by Radchenko, 1997c: 435.
  • Distribution: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, India, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
• dschambulica. Cataglyphis setipes subsp. dschambulica Tarbinsky, 1976: 200 (w.) KYRGYZSTAN.
  • Type-material: holotype worker, 9 paratype workers.
  • Type-locality: holotype Kyrgyzstan: lowlands River Chu, vic. Sovkhoz, “Dzhambul”, 18.iv.1961 (Protensko); paratypes with same data.
  • [Note: perhaps also paratypes (number not stated): Kazakhstan: Dzhambulsk Region, Kuragaty river valley, downstream River Talas, N Dzhambula, vic. Lake Aedyn (Yu. Tarbinsky).]
  • Type-depositories: NASK, ZMUM.
  • Subspecies of setipes: Agosti, 1990b: 1490; Bolton, 1995b: 135.
  • Junior synonym of setipes: Radchenko, 1997c: 435.

Description

Karyotype

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• 2n = 52, karyotype = 12M+40A (India) (Imai et al., 1984) (at figure subtitle it is mentioned 2n=54 but it may be a mistake since the formula is correct as desbribed in the results and the karyotype has 26 chromosome pairs).

References

• Bharti, H., Sharma, Y.P., Kaur, A. 2009. Seasonal patterns of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Punjab Shivalik. Halteres 1: 36-47.
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
• Khalili-Moghadam, A., Salata, S., Borowiec, L. 2021. Three new species of Cataglyphis Foerster, 1850 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Iran. ZooKeys 1009, 1–28 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1009.59205).
• Khalini-Moghadam, A., Borowiec, L., Nemati, A. 2019. New records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari Province of Iran with taxonomic comments. Polish Journal of Entomology 88: 163–182 (DOI 10.2478/pjen-2019-0013).
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• Pashaei Rad, S., Taylor, B., Torabi, R., Aram, E., Abolfathi, G., Afshari, R., Borjali, F., Ghatei, M., Hediary, F., Jazini, F., Heidary Kiah, V., Mahmoudi, Z., Safariyan, F., Seiri, M. 2018. Further records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran. Zoology in the Middle East 64, 145-159 (doi:10.1080/09397140.2018.1442301).
• Rasheed, M.T., Bodlah, I., Fareen, A.G., Wachkoo, A.A., Huang, X., Akbar, S.A. 2019. A checklist of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Pakistan. Sociobiology 66(3), 426-439 (doi:10.13102/sociobiology.v66i3.4330).
• Rasheed, S.B., Ali, M., Zaidi, F., Noreen, S. 2020. Diversity of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in residential area of Tarbela, Swabi: New recrds from Pakistan. The Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences 31: 617-624 (doi:10.36899/japs.2021.2.0250).
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