Cataglyphis elegantissima

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Cataglyphis elegantissima Arnol'di, 1968 valid

Cataglyphis (Eomonocombus) elegantissima Arnol'di, 1968b: 1815, figs. 13, 14 (w.) TURKMENISTAN. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Turkmenistan: central Kopet Dag, Shakh-Shakh upper plateau (2500 m.), 15-16.viii.1935, no. 6549 (L.V. Arnol’di). Primary type depository: ZMUM. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 23 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: SIZK, ZMUM.

[Misspelled as eiegantissima by Arnol'di, 1968b: 1815, on same page.]
Status as species: Dlussky et al., 1990: 151; Agosti, 1990b: 1494; Bolton, 1995b: 135; Radchenko, 1997e: 427; Radchenko, 1998a: 507 (in key).

Citations

Agosti, D. 1990b. Review and reclassification of Cataglyphis (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 24:1457-1505. PDF
Arnol'di, K. V. 1968b. Important additions to the myrmecofauna (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the USSR, and descriptions of new forms. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 47:1800-1822. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dlussky, G. M.; Soyunov, O. S.; Zabelin, S. I. 1990. Ants of Turkmenistan. [In Russian.]. Ashkabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp. PDF
Radchenko, A. G. 1997e. Review of ants of the genus Cataglyphis Foerster (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Asia. [In Russian.]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 76:424-442. PDF
Radchenko, A. G. 1998a. A key to the ants of the genus Cataglyphis Foerster (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Asia. [In Russian.]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 77:502-508.

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