Cataglyphis cana Santschi
  Type location Morocco
(Myrmecocystus albicans vaucheri
var cana n. Emery, 1906d: 180; Cataglyphis albicans Rog. v. cana Em., Santschi, 1925g: 156; Cataglyphis
albicans var. cana
Santschi, 1929b: 38; raised to species by Collingwood 1978: 83).
Emery (1906d) simply noted that it had the same form as M. albicans vaucheri,
i.e. presumably with a near semi-circular occiput in full-face view;
with the head, alitrunk, petiole and legs rust brown, the femora more
or less piceous, gaster piceous, submetallic; head shiny, alitrunk and
petiole subopaque, copiously covered with white pubescence; Morocco,
Chipzona, Marakech Road, collector Vaucher. Santschi (1925g: 356)
simply reported it from Spain and Portugal. Santschi (1929b: 38) noted
only that the head of the major worker was bigger than the albicans type from Morocco,
otherwise similar. Collingwood (1978) simply listed the name C. cana Em. (C. vaucheri v. cana Em.) in a list of species
from the Iberian Peninsula.
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