Cataglyphis n. sp. Mahmoodi 11

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Smaller than all described Cataglyphis. Worker 04: TL ca 3.5 mm, HW 0.70, HL 0.70, EL 0.29, SL 0.97, PW 0.5, CI 100, SI 132.  Worker 18: slightly smaller, scapes missing. Uniformly shiny, dark brown; scapes, mandibles and lower legs yellow-brown. Mandibles striate. Femora with distinctive decumbent minute but stout setae. Legs long and slender.

Similar in size to Cataglyphis emeryi but with much longer scapes, longer legs, larger eyes and a lower, thicker petiole. C. emeryi has HW 0.87, SL 0.81, EL 0.25, SI 93, plus C. emeryi has  noticeable pubescence on the alitrunk. This does share the long forward pointing hairs on the clypeus, which Radchenko (1998) has as a prime separating character, couplet 8, for emeryi from the other dark coloured species with a squamous petiole and a shiny gaster.

Oxford University Museum specimens

Cataglyphis n. sp. Mahmoodi 11 B Taylor det.	Iran Z Mahmoodi 11	1.viii.2015 35.767887°N 51.215951°E	Western Cascade 1465 m pifall trap on mountain media worker?	1
Cataglyphis n. sp. Mahmoodi 11 B Taylor det.	Iran Z Mahmoodi 31	1.viii.2015 35.767887°N 51.215951	Western Cascade 1465 m pifall trap on mountain major worker?	1
Cataglyphis n. sp. Mahmoodi 11 B Taylor det.	Iran Z Mahmoodi 32	22.iv.2015 35.745215°N 51.214764°E	Shohadaye-Khalij-e-Fars Lake 1263 m, pitfall trap major worker	1

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