Cataglyphis cursor

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: France.

Nomenclature

 * . Formica cursor Fonscolombe, 1846: 41 (w.q.m.) FRANCE.
 * 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.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus aterrima, rockingeri.

Worker Morphology
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References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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