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SUBFAMILY FORMICINAE - Genus Cataglyphis - Cataglyphis emmae (Forel)
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Cataglyphis emmae (Forel)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Algeria (Formica (Proformica) emmae, Forel, 1909e: 381, worker; placed in Cataglyphis by Santschi, 1929b: 30) - see below
subspecies hoggarensis (Cataglyphis (Paraformica) emmae var. hoggarensis, Santschi, 1929b: 53, footnote, worker; also Santschi, 1929c: 106 & Santschi, 1934f: 174.) from Algeria - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0912194.

{Cataglyphis emmae}Forel's (1909e) description is at {original description}. Major worker and sexuals described by Delye (1965), illustrated.

Reference
Delye, G. 1965. Cataglyphis (Paraformica) emmae Forel, sexués et soldats.  Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France. 70, 52-56.

{Cataglyphis emmae}The photomontage of the type media worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0249886.

{Cataglyphis emmae}The photomontage of the type minima worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0903290.
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