Cataglyphis lividus (André)
Type location Israel
(Myrmecocystus albicans var lividus, André, 1881b: 58,
worker; Menozzi, 1933b: 84, queen & male; raised to species
Arnold'i, 1964: 1810; Pisarski, 1965: 420) - see below
subspecies
bulgaricus (Cataglyphis
lividus subsp. bulgarica,
Atanassov, 1982: 213, illustrated, worker & queen [unavailable])
from Bulgaria - no images on Antweb (July 2014)
arenarius (Myrmecocystus
albicans Rog,
subsp. lividus André; v. arenaria n. var., Forel, 1909e:
384, worker; Finzi, 1940: 164) from Algeria - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0911101
luteus (Myrmecocystus albicans
ssp viaticoides var lutea, Emery, 1906d: 53; Cataglyphis lividus lutea,
Pisarski,
1967: 418, worker) from Iran - see below
unavailable names arabica
(Myrmecocystus albicans ssp livida var arabica,
Emery, 1906d) from Yemen (Aden) - see below
ambigua (Cataglyphis
(Cataglyphis) albicans Rog. stirps lividus And. v. ambigua n. var., Santschi, 1929b:
40, worker) from Egypt, Cairo,
Forel - no images on Antweb.
all forms known.
New here: Synonymy
of Cataglyphis albicans var. fezzanensis n. var., Bernard 1948:
163, type location Algeria, Fezzan; transferred from under albicans. Curiously, Bernard,
having noted the type albicans as
being black and subspecies livida
as entirely yellow, does not give a colour for fezzanensis
- it, however, has a yellow-brown head and alitrunk and a paler gaster,
essentially the same as the Senegal workers shown below; see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0913618
Another almost identical form is that separated as Cataglyphis arenarius Finzi by Collingwood & Agosti
(1996: 378); wrongly listing Finzi, 1904: where it appeared as Cataglyphis
albicans var. arenaria Forel, from Fezzan, Algeria - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0911101.
The original description wsa by Forel (1909e: 384), as Myrmecocystus albicans Rop. subsp. lividus Andre v. arenaria n.v. (card 2).
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André's
(1881b) description is brief and compares
specimens from Jaffa, Israel, with albicans; but entirely clear
testaceous yellow, with the head a little redder and the gaster paler;
the colour is like pallidus but the petiole is similar to that
of albicans. Emery's (1906d) notes and descriptions of arabica
and lutea are at . Forel's (1909e: 384)
description of albicans arenarius includes a note on lividus,
this is at . Santschi (1929b) gave
notes, these are at . In the albicans
species-group (Agosti, 1990: 1495).
Note - the description of C.
argentatus by Radoszowsky (1876) is short but the general
characters, notably the carinate clypeus, weakly concave propodeum and
narrow rounded petiole, plus the colouration and short, decumbent
silvery hairs, suggests this may be a junior synonym of that species.
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The
photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0915499.
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The
photomontage of a type worker of luteus
is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0905718.
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The
photomontage of a type worker of arabica
is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=0905719.
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Egypt records - Emery
(1909e: 384) noted he had specimens of lividus from Egypt (also
the André type specimens), and the head was less convex posteriorly
than shown in Emery's drawing - the photographed specimen matches
Emery's note in that respect. Wheeler & Mann (1916) from Wadi
Gharandel, Sinai Peninsula; Menozzi (1929: 128; cited in Finzi, 1936)
reported several workers, collected in Sinai, at Wadi Nasib, by F S
Bodenheimer. Alfieri (1931: 47) Fayoum Province, El Aalam, 30.x.1925;
also Mohamed et al (2001, illustrated) & El-Moursy et al
(2001). Santschi (1929b:40) as C. albicans st livida n
var ambigua noted 5 type workers from Cairo, Forel; and Cairo
& around, Alluaud, 1907. C. ambigua reported by Finzi
(1936: 192) from a number of locations including Cairo and Sinai.
Sharaf list - Flosyiat, Zaranik (North Sinai),
11.viii.2000 (33); Ein Sokhna (Suez), 12.ii.1999 (2); N.W.core zone
(El-Omaid) (North Sinai) (4) leg.H. El-Hennawy; Zaranik. 5.v.2003 (3);
Zaranik, 7.v.2003 (2) (SHC); Sahab (South Sinai), 10.viii.1998 (2)
Leg.M.R.Sharaf (ASUC); Faiyum, 9.v.1959 (1) (CUC).
Mohamad thesis (1979) had - Egypt (Det.Crawley,1927) (Coll.Alf.).
Fayium, 9.v.1959 (Coll.Car.).
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Oxford University Museum
specimens
Cataglyphis lividus
B Taylor det. |
Egypt
M Sharaf
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12.ii.1999
Suez
29° 34'60 N
32°21' E
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Ein Sokhna
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The photomontage is of a worker from Egypt,
Ein Sokhna, Suez; collector Mostafa
Sharaf.
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