Cataglyphis turcomanica Crawley - new status
Iran list
Type location Turkmenistan
(Myrmecocystus
viaticus, F. subsp. desertorum
For. var. turcomanica n.
var., Emery, 1898c: 147,
worker; name as Cataglyphis bicolor
F., var. turcomanica
Em. by Crawley, 1920b: 177, name only; as Cataglyphis bicolor F., stirps setipes v. turcomanica
Em. in Santschi, 1929b: 49, illustrated; as Cataglyphis turcomanicus( Emery) in
Agosti, 1990, 1490) from Merwe and Samarkand, by Sahlberg - no images
on Antweb (July 2016)
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Emery's
(1898c) description is at . Santschi (1929b)
provided an
illustrated description; this is at .
Crawley (1920b: 177) simply used the name Cataglyphis bicolor F., var. turcomanica
Em., reporting the finding of a worker at
Tiflis, "North-West Persia", 1919 (Buxton). The name Tiflis seemingly
now is regarded as Tibilisi, in Georgia but it seems unlikely that is
where Buxton collected. The location possibly was close to modern
Bandar-e-Anzali, Iraq, on the Caspian Sea coast, where Buxton collected
in March and June 1919(in Crawley, 1920a & b).
Agosti (1990: 1479, 1490) has the setipes
complex as known from
Morocco and Ghana
to Central Asia and the Ganges River but gave the distinguishing
character of the group as "thick, bristle-like black pubescence on the
hind tibia". That is not present on turcomanica,
which has the setae and raised pubescence matching the orange-brown
legs.
Radchenko (1998) does not mention it in his key to Asian
Cataglyphis.
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Oxford University Museum
specimens
Cataglyphis turcomanica
B Taylor det. |
Iran
Z Mahmoodi
23
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19.x.2015
35.749795°N
51.339501°E
1438 m
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Nahjol Balaghe Park
pifall trap
river valley
? major worker
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1
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The
photomontage is of a worker from Iran, Nahjol Balaghe Park,
collector
Z Mahmoodi (23).
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