Cataglyphis fortis
(Forel, 1902)
valid
Myrmecocystus albicans var. fortis
Forel, 1902a:
156 (w.)
ALGERIA.
Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Algeria: nr Tougourt, on road to Temacin (A. Diehl). Primary type depository: MHNG.
- [Also described as new by Forel, 1903b: 455.]
- Wehner, 1983: 95 (q.m.)
- Combination in Cataglyphis: Emery, 1925d: 262.
- As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1906f: 52.
- Subspecies of Cataglyphis albicans: Karavaiev, 1912a: 15; Emery, 1925d: 262; Santschi, 1929b: 61 (in key); Cagniant, 1970c: 30.
- Status as species: Wehner, 1983: 95; Agosti, 1990b: 1494; Bolton, 1995b: 135; Borowiec, 2014: 55; Aneed et al., 2018: 64 (redescription).
- Senior synonym of Cataglyphis halophila: Wehner, 1983: 95; Agosti, 1990b: 1494; Bolton, 1995b: 135.
Junior synonyms
- Cataglyphis halophila Bernard, 1954
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Agosti, D. 1990b. Review and reclassification of Cataglyphis (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 24:1457-1505. PDF
- Aneed, I. K.; Augul, R. S.; Al-Bahadyli, L. J. M. 2018. New additional records for ant fauna from Iraq. Pakistan Entomologist 40 (2):63-70. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
- Cagniant, H. 1970c. Deuxième liste de fourmis d'Algérie, récoltées principalement en forêt (Deuxième partie). Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 106:28-40. PDF
- Emery, C. 1906f. Rassegna critica delle specie paleartiche del genere Myrmecocystus. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (6)3:47-61 [pagination of separate: 173-187]. PDF
- Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
- Forel, A. 1902a. Les fourmis du Sahara algérien récoltées par M. le Professeur A. Lameere et le Dr. A. Diehl. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 46:147-158. PDF
- Forel, A. 1903b. Die Sitten und Nester einiger Ameisen der Sahara bei Tugurt und Biskra. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 10:453-459. PDF
- Karavaiev, V. 1912a. Ameisen aus Tunesien und Algerien, nebst einigen unterwegs in Italien gesammelten Arten. Russkoe Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 12:1-22. PDF
- Santschi, F. 1929b. Étude sur les Cataglyphis. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 36:25-70. PDF
- Wehner, R. 1983. Taxonomie, Funktionsmorphologie und Zoogeographie der saharischen Wüstenameise Cataglyphis fortis (Forel 1902) stat. nov. (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica (n.s.)64:89-132.