Cataglyphis setipes

This species inhabits subtropical areas and is relatively easy to find because they preferentially occupy open habitats. These ants have been observed to form permanent nests in dry soil; nests can be easily located in bare ground and along roadside. Workers of this species usually forage individually and raise gaster in locomotion (Wachkoo & Bharti, 2015). Pashaei Rad et al. (2018) found this species in Iran on the ground in a moderate rainfall area.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India. Palaearctic Region: Iran.

Biology
In Turkmenistan this species is parasitized by the ant Cataglyphis zakharovi.

Nomenclature

 *  setipes. Myrmecocystus viaticus r. setipes Forel, 1894c: 401 (w.) INDIA. Ruzsky, 1902d: 9 (q.m.); Imai, et al. 1984: 9 (k.). Combination in Cataglyphis: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 945. Subspecies of bicolor: Emery, 1906d: 58; Emery, 1908g: 217; Santschi, 1929b: 49. Raised to species: Bingham, 1903: 312; Collingwood, 1961: 289; Collingwood, 1961a: 65; Arnol'di, 1964: 1804; Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 554. Senior synonym of turcomanica: Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 155; Radchenko, 1997c: 435; of dschambulica and material of the unavailable name setipesdesertorum referred here: Radchenko, 1997c: 435. [Radchenko, 1997c: 435 places longipedem as a junior synonym of setipes, but if the synonymy is correct then longipedem has priority; so treated here.] Junior synonym of longipedem: Bolton, unpublished. Status as species: Wachkoo & Bharti, 2015: 3.