Cataglyphis vaucheri

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 based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Morocco, Oman.

Nomenclature

 *  vaucheri. Myrmecocystus albicans subsp. vaucheri Emery, 1906d: 54, fig. 17 (w.) MOROCCO. Combination in Cataglyphis: Emery, 1925b: 263. Raised to species: Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 383.