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Cataglyphis pallida
| Cataglyphis pallida | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Formicini |
| Genus: | Cataglyphis |
| Species group: | pallida |
| Species: | C. pallida |
| Binomial name | |
| Cataglyphis pallida Mayr, 1877
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Identification
A member of the C. pallida-group as defined by Agosti (1990).
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 43.82° to 29.966667°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan (type locality), Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation, Turkmenistan.
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
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- pallida. Cataglyphis pallida Mayr, 1877: 9 (w.m.) TURKMENISTAN.
- Type-material: syntype workers, syntype males (numbers not stated).
- Type-locality: Turkmenistan: Kizil-kum (A.P. Fedchenko).
- Type-depositories: MHNG, ZMUM (perhaps also NHMW).
- [Also described as new by Mayr, 1880: 28.]
- Karavaiev, 1910b: 25 (q.).
- Combination in Myrmecocystus: Emery, 1898c: 126; Ruzsky, 1905b: 443;
- combination in Cataglyphis: Emery, 1912f: 103;
- combination in C. (Monocombus): Santschi, 1929b: 29.
- Status as species: Emery, 1877b: 366; Emery, 1878b: 48; Mayr, 1880: 28; André, 1882b: 170 (in key); Forel, 1886e: clxi; Nasonov, 1889: 15; Saunders, E. 1890: 202; Dalla Torre, 1893: 218; Ruzsky, 1903b: 300; Ruzsky, 1905b: 443; Emery, 1906d: 50; Karavaiev, 1910b: 24; Ruzsky, 1923: 2; Emery, 1925b: 264; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929b: 40; Santschi, 1929b: 37; Ceballos, 1956: 317; Tarbinsky, 1976: 207 (redescription); Collingwood, 1978: 92 (in key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 554 (in key); Dlussky, 1981a: 17; Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 154; Agosti, 1990b: 1484; Bolton, 1995b: 136; Radchenko, 1997c: 440; Radchenko, 1998: 502 (in key); Collingwood & Heatwole, 2000: 16; Schultz, R. et al. 2006: 205; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 30; Borowiec, L. 2014: 59; Sharaf, Collingwood & Aldawood, 2015: 110 (in key).
- Distribution: China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
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.
- Dubovikoff, D.A., Yusupov, Z.M. 2017. Family Formicidae - Ants. In Belokobylskij S. A. and A. S. Lelej: Annotated catalogue of the Hymenoptera of Russia. Proceedingss of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 6: 197-210.
- 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).
- Khalili-Moghadam, A., Salata, S., Borowiec, L. 2023. Two new species of ants of the genus Cataglyphis Foerster, 1850 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran. Zoology in the Middle East 69(3), 270–281 (doi:10.1080/09397140.2023.2247277).
- Sharaf, M.R., Collingwood, C.A. & Aldawood, A.S. 2015. Notes on the ant genus Cataglyphis Foerster, 1850 in the Arabian Peninsula with description of a new species and a key to species of the C. pallida-group. ZooKeys 545: 101-117.
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Collingwood C., and H. Heatwole. 2000. Ants from Northwestern China (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Psyche 103 (1-2): 1-24.
- Dlussky G. M., O. S. Soyunov, and S. I. Zabelin. 1990. Ants of Turkmenistan. Ashkabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp.
- Dubovikoff D. A., and Z. M. Yusupov. 2018. Family Formicidae - Ants. In Belokobylskij S. A. and A. S. Lelej: Annotated catalogue of the Hymenoptera of Russia. Proceedingss of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 6: 197-210.
- Emery, C.. "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der palaearktischen Ameisen." Öfversigt af Finska Vetenskaps-Societetens Förhandlingar (Helsinki) 20 (1898): 124-151.
- Emery, C.. "Catalogo delle formiche esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Genova. Parte prima. Formiche provenienti dal Viaggio dei signori Antinori, Beccari e Issel nel Mar Rosso e nel paese dei Bogos. [concl.]." Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 9 (1877): 363-381.
- Forel, A.. "Nouvelles fourmis de Grèce récoltées par M. E. von Oertzen." Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 30 (1886): clix-clxviii.
- Gulzar A. 2014. Classification and Distribution of ants in Kashgar, Xinjiang. Master's Thesis Shaanxi Normal University, 75 pages.
- Guénard B., and R. R. Dunn. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3558: 1-77.
- Karavaiev V. 1911. Ameisen aus Transkaspien und Turkestan. Tr. Rus. Entomol. Obshch. 39: 1-72.
- Marikovsky P. I. 1979. Ants of the Semireche Desert. [In Russian.]. Alma Ata: Nauka, 263 pp.
- Radchenko A. G. 1998. A key to ants of the genus Cataglyphis Foerster (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Asia. Entomological Review (Birmingham) 78: 475-480.
- Radchenko, A.G. 1998. A key to ants of the genus Cataglyphis Foerster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Asia. Entomological Review 78(4):475-480.
- Ran H., and S. Y. Zhou. 2012. Checklist of chinese ants: formicomorph subfamilies (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) II. Journal of Guangxi Normal University: Natural Science Edition 30(4): 81-91.
- Ruzsky, M. 1923. Ants of Cheleken Island. Izv. Tomsk. Gos. Univ. 72(2nd p part: 1-6
- Santschi, F.. "Étude sur les Cataglyphis." Revue Suisse de Zoologie 36 (1929): 25-70.
- Saunders, E.. "Aculeate Hymenoptera collected by J. J. Walker, at Gibraltar and in North Africa. (Part I - Heterogyna)." Entomologists' Monthly Magazine XXVI (1890): 201-206 y 289-291.
- Schultz, R., A. G. Radchenko, and B. Seifert. "A critical checklist of the ants of Kyrgyzstan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8 (2006): 201-207.