Cataglyphis cursor

Cataglyphis cursor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Formicini
Genus:	Cataglyphis
Species group:	cursor
Species:	C. cursor
Binomial name
Cataglyphis cursor (Fonscolombe, 1846) Specimen Labels

At a Glance

• Parthenogenetic  • Diploid male

Identification

Keys including this Species

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Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 43.66666667° to 35.255189°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: France (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.

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

Flight Period

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Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

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Fungi

This species is a host for the fungus Aegeritella roussillonensis (a pathogen) (Espadaler & Santamaria, 2012).

Life History Traits

• Queen number: monogynous (Lenior et al., 1988; Rissing and Pollock, 1988)
• Queen type: winged (Lenoir et al., 1988; Frumhoff & Ward, 1992) (queenless worker reproduction)
• Mean colony size: 1,000 (Cagniant, 1983; Beckers et al., 1989)
• Foraging behaviour: solitary forager (Cagniant, 1983; Beckers et al., 1989)

Nomenclature

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

• cursor. Formica cursor Fonscolombe, 1846: 41 (w.q.m.) FRANCE.
  • Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queen(s), syntype male(s) (numbers not stated).
  • Type-locality: France: vic. Aix (B. de Fonscolombe).
  • Type-depository: unknown (perhaps MNHN).
  • [Note: Horn & Kahle, 1935: 79, say that Fonscolombe’s “collection has suffered greatly”; its remnants are in MNHN.]
  • Mayr, 1861: 45 (w.q.m.).
  • Combination in Cataglyphis: Mayr, 1861: 45 (in key); Mayr, 1880: 28; Emery, 1912f: 99; Emery, 1916b: 267; Emery, 1925b: 263;
  • combination in Myrmecocystus: Emery & Forel, 1879: 449;
  • combination in Myrmecocystus (Cataglyphis): Forel, 1911d: 354;
  • combination in Cataglyphis (Monocombus): Santschi, 1929b: 29.
  • Status as species: Nylander, 1856b: 60; Smith, F. 1858b: 9; Mayr, 1861: 45 (in key); Mayr, 1863: 402; Roger, 1863b: 12; Dours, 1873: 166; André, 1874: 182 (in key); Mayr, 1877: 8; Emery, 1878b: 48; Emery & Forel, 1879: 449; Mayr, 1880: 28; André, 1881b: 59; André, 1882b: 170 (in key); Costa, 1884: 34; Forel, 1886e: clxvii; Forel, 1886f: 204; Nasonov, 1889: 14; Mayr, 1889: 278; Saunders, E. 1890: 203; Forel, 1892i: 306; Dalla Torre, 1893: 217; Ruzsky, 1896: 68; Ruzsky, 1902a: 232; Forel, 1906c: 189; Emery, 1906d: 47; Karavaiev, 1910a: 269; Karavaiev, 1910b: 18; Forel, 1911d: 354; Karavaiev, 1916: 507; Emery, 1916b: 267; Bondroit, 1918: 38; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 944; Soudek, 1922: 86; Müller, 1923b: 149; Karavaiev, 1924: 301; Emery, 1925b: 263; Karavaiev, 1927c: 287 (in key); Santschi, 1929b: 58 (in key); Karavaiev, 1936: 263; Novák & Sadil, 1941: 108 (in key); Donisthorpe, 1950e: 1065; Ceballos, 1956: 317; Dlussky, 1962: 183; Samšiňák, 1964: 158; Baroni Urbani, 1964a: 8; Bernard, 1967: 281 (redescription); Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969: 86; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 243; Collingwood, 1978: 92 (in key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 285 (in key); Agosti, 1990b: 1481; Bolton, 1995b: 135; Petrov, 2006: 110 (in key); Werner & Wiezik, 2007: 156; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowsky, 2009: 480; Legakis, 2011: 34; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 486; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 9; Borowiec, L. 2014: 54; Lebas, et al. 2016: 166.
  • Distribution: France (+ Corsica), Ialy (+ Sardinia, Sicily), Malta, Portugal, Spain (+ Balearics).

=Worker Morphology

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