Cataglyphis oasium Menozzi, new status
  Type location Tunisia
(Cataglyphis bicolor st. nodus var. oasium n.
var., Santschi, 1929b: 46, all forms; noted by Menozzi, 1932c: 95, as Cataglyphis
bicolor var. oasium  .
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Santschi's (1929b) description is at  . Menozzi (1932c) simply listed it as
numerous workers found at six locations in Fezzan, Libya,
collected by E Zavattari in 1931. Menozzi's report is at  .
Santschi (1929b, my translation) had - close to Cataglyphis savignyi but the
alitrunk remains red or part red in workers larger than TL 7 mm (black
in savignyi);
antennae, legs, and often the sides of the alitrunk a blackish-brown,
head and rest of alitrunk dull red; the colour resembles the race laevior but the sculpture of the
body and gaster is as Cataglyphis desertorum; the
scape is a little narrower than desertorum
and the propodeum slightly more convex; from Tunisia, Tozzeur and
Kairouan; also from Algeria, Fuguig and Ain Seffra.
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 Egypt
records - none. The photomontage of the type worker is collated
from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0912184.
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Oxford University Museum
specimens
Cataglyphis oasium
B Taylor det. |
Tunisia
S. Aron
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x.2008
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Major & minor
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2
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Cataglyphis oasium
B Taylor det. |
Sudan
Z Mahmoud
2009-22
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Abu Dulayg
15°53'47.27" N
33°49'41.18" E |
Hand collected
major & minor
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2
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Cataglyphis oasium
B Taylor det. |
Sudan
Z Mahmoud
2009-64
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7.i.2008
Sulb
20°26'15.37" N
30°19'51.81" E
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Hand collected
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1
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Cataglyphis oasium
B Taylor det. |
Sudan
Z Mahmoud
2009-82
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26.iii.2010
Musmer
18°13'03.98" N
35°38'04.34" E
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Hand collected
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1
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Cataglyphis oasium
B Taylor det. |
Senegal
Djolof
B Ndiaye
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19.xi.2011
Widou
16°00'00" N
15°19' W
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Widou 19-II-11 PIB1
PB2
42 m; Sahelian savannah, pitfall traps
Majors & minor
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3
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Cataglyphis oasium
B Taylor det. |
Egypt
A Lenoir
150b
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22.iii.2010
Edfu
29°34'32.2" N
35°25'09.1" E
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Major & minor
workers
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4
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 The
photomontage is of a major worker from Tunisia, collected by S.
Aron, x.2008, and sent to me by Alain Lenoir.
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The photomontage is of a major worker collected in Sudan,
Abu Dulayg; collector Zuheir Mahmoud.
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The photomontage is of a minor worker collected in Sudan,
Abu Dulayg; collector Zuheir Mahmoud.
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The photomontage is of a major worker collected in Senegal,
Djolof; collector B Ndiaye.
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 The
photomontage is of specimens from Gambia, collected and
photographed by Mike Lush - see http://sifolinia.blogspot.com/.
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The photomontage is of a minor worker from Senegal,
collector B Ndiaye.
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 The
photomontage is of a minor worker from Tunisia, collected by S.
Aron, x.2008, and sent to me by Alain Lenoir.
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