Cataglyphis vaucheri

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Cataglyphis vaucheri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Formicini
Genus: Cataglyphis
Species: C. vaucheri
Binomial name
Cataglyphis vaucheri
(Emery, 1906)

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Specimen Labels

Identification

Collingwood and Agosti (1996) - SI 99-100. This black species is distinguished from Cataglyphis albicans by the reduced sculpture. The head, which is wider relative to the promesonotum compared with C albicans, is brilliant and the alitrunk has very superficial sculpture.

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 34.025278° to 14.108056°.

   
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Morocco (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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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.
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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.
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Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • vaucheri. Myrmecocystus albicans subsp. vaucheri Emery, 1906d: 54, fig. 17 (w.) MOROCCO.
    • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
    • Type-locality: Morocco: Mogador (= Essaouira) (H. Vaucher).
    • Type-depositories: MHNG, MSNG, NHMB.
    • Combination in Cataglyphis: Emery, 1925b: 263;
    • combination in C. (Cataglyphis): Santschi, 1929b: 38.
    • Subspecies of albicans: Emery, 1925b: 262; Santschi, 1926e: 236; Santschi, 1929b: 38; Ceballos, 1956: 317; Agosti, 1990b: 1492; Bolton, 1995b: 137; Cagniant, 2009: 52.
    • Status as species: Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 383; Cagniant, 2006a: 195; Borowiec, L. 2014: 61.
    • Distribution: Morocco, Oman. Yemen.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
  • Collingwood, C. A. and D. Agosti. 1996. Formicidae (Insects: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (Part 2) Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15: 300-385.
  • Collingwood, C. A., and Donat Agosti. "Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (Part 2)." Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15 (1996): 300-385.
  • Sharaf M. R., B. L. Fisher, H. M. Al Dhafer, A. Polaszek, and A. S. Aldawood. 2018. Additions to the ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Oman: an updated list, new records and a description of two new species. Asian Myrmecology 10: e010004