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Cataglyphis asiriensis
| Cataglyphis asiriensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Formicini |
| Genus: | Cataglyphis |
| Species: | C. asiriensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Cataglyphis asiriensis Collingwood, 1985
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Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 20.183333° to 18.283333°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Saudi Arabia (type locality).
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. |
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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
Images from AntWeb
   
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| Paratype of Cataglyphis asiriensis. Worker. Specimen code casent0912241. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland. |
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- asiriensis. Cataglyphis asiriensis Collingwood, 1985: 286, fig. 76 (w.) SAUDI ARABIA.
- Type-material: holotype worker, paratype workers (number not stated).
- Type-locality: holotype Saudi Arabia: Sawdah Mt, 3000 m., 9.iv.1983 (C.A. Collingwood); paratypes with same data.
- Type-depository: NHMB (perhaps also WMLC).
- [Note: in this publication much type-material was referred to NHMB but was apparently never deposited there.]
- Status as species: Agosti, 1990b: 1483; Bolton, 1995b: 134; Borowiec, L. 2014: 52.
- Distribution: Saudi Arabia.
Description
References
- 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. 1985. Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna Saudi Arab. 7: 230-302 (page 286, fig. 76 worker d*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).
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