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Genus: Cataglyphis

Taxonomic Hierarchy:

Subfamily: Formicinae Genus: Cataglyphis

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2010)

Cataglyphis Foerster, 1850b: 493. Type-species: Cataglyphis fairmairei (junior synonym of Formica bicolor), by monotypy.

Taxonomic history

Cataglyphis in Formicinae: Mayr, 1861: 44 [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1862: 653 (in key) [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1865: 8 [Formicidae].

Cataglyphis in Camponotinae, Formicini: Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 144; Forel, 1912i: 89; Forel, 1917: 250.

Cataglyphis in Formicinae, Formica genus group: Agosti, 1991: 295.

Cataglyphis in Formicinae, Formicini: Bondroit, 1918: 38; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 699; Emery, 1925b: 261; Agosti, 1994a: 93; Bolton, 1994: 50; all subsequent authors.

Cataglyphis as junior synonym of Myrmecocystus: Forel, 1878: 372; Emery & Forel, 1879a: 449; Andr?, 1882b: 165; Forel, 1886f: 201; Mayr, 1886d: 424; Dalla Torre, 1893: 216; Bingham, 1903: 312; Ruzsky, 1905b: 426; Emery, 1906d: 47; Emery, 1908g: 213; Karavaiev, 1924: 301.

Cataglyphis as subgenus of Myrmecocystus: Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 144.

Cataglyphis as genus: Foerster, 1850b: 493; Roger, 1863b: 12; Mayr, 1863: 402; Wheeler, W.M. 1913a: 78; Emery, 1925b: 261; all subsequent authors.

Junior synonyms of CATAGLYPHIS

Monocombus Mayr, 1855: 381. Type-species: Formica viatica, by monotypy.

Taxonomic history

Monocombus in Formicinae: Mayr, 1855: 381 [Formicidae].

Monocombus as junior synonym of Myrmecocystus: Forel, 1878: 372; Emery & Forel, 1879a: 449; Andr?, 1882b: 165; Mayr, 1886d: 424; Dalla Torre, 1893: 216.

Monocombus as subgenus of Cataglyphis: Santschi, 1929b: 29.

Monocombus as junior synonym of Cataglyphis: Mayr, 1861: 44; Roger, 1863b: 12; Mayr, 1863: 402; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 944; Emery, 1925b: 261; Agosti, 1990b: 1462; Agosti, 1994a: 103.

Paraformica Forel, 1915b: 95 (footnote) [as subgenus of Formica]. Type-species: Formica (Paraformica) emmae, by monotypy.

Taxonomic history

Paraformica in Camponotinae, Formicini: Forel, 1917: 250.

Paraformica in Formicinae, Formicini: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 699; Emery, 1925b: 260.

Paraformica as subgenus of Formica: Forel, 1915b: 95; Forel, 1917: 250; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 699.

Paraformica as genus: Emery, 1925b: 260; Donisthorpe, 1943f: 680.

Paraformica as subgenus of Proformica: Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1928a: 7.

Paraformica as subgenus of Cataglyphis: Santschi, 1925g: 353; Santschi, 1929b: 30.

Paraformica as junior synonym of Cataglyphis: Brown, 1973b: 183 [provisional]; Agosti, 1990b: 1462; Agosti, 1994a: 103.

Machaeromyrma Forel, 1916: 441 [as subgenus of Cataglyphis]. Type-species: Formica bombycina, by original designation.

Taxonomic history

Machaeromyrma as subgenus of Cataglyphis: Forel, 1916: 441; Forel, 1917: 250; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 699; Emery, 1925b: 266; Santschi, 1929b: 30; subsequent authors to the following.

Machaeromyrma as junior synonym of Cataglyphis: Baroni Urbani, 1969d: 218; Agosti, 1994a: 103.

Eomonocombus Arnol'di, 1968: 1815 [as subgenus of Cataglyphis]. Type-species: Myrmecocystus cinnamomeus, by original designation.

Taxonomic history

Eomonocombus as junior synonym of Cataglyphis: Brown, 1973b: 180 [provisional]; Agosti, 1990b: 1462; Agosti, 1994a: 103.

Genus Cataglyphis references

Mayr, 1861: 44 (Europe species key); Roger, 1863b: 12 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863: 402 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 8 (diagnosis); Andr?, 1874: 181 (Europe species key); Forel, 1878: 372 (diagnosis); Andr?, 1882b: 166 (Europe & Algeria species key); Nasonov, 1889: 60 (Russia species key); Bingham, 1903: 312 (diagnosis); Ruzsky, 1905b: 426 (Russian Empire species key); Emery, 1906d: 60 (Palaearctic species (as Myrmecocystus), key); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 699 (subgenera key); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 945 (Afrotropical catalogue); Emery, 1925b: 260 (Paraformica diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1925b: 261 (diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1925b: 266 (C. (Machaeromyrma) diagnosis, catalogue); Santschi, 1929b: 56 (all species key); Menozzi, 1933b: 86 (Israel species key); Kratochv?l, 1941: 108 (Central Europe species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 197, 203 (Asia checklist); Bernard, 1967: 280 (diagnosis); Tarbinsky, 1976: 197 (Kyrghyzstan species key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 554 (former European U.S.S.R. species key); Collingwood, 1978: 92 (Iberian Peninsula species key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 284 (Balkans species key); Collingwood, 1985: 284 (Saudi Arabia species key); Agosti, 1990b: 1457 (review of genus, diagnosis, species groups key, catalogue); Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 146 (Turkmenistan species key); Atanasov & Dlussky, 1992: 292 (Bulgaria species key); Agosti, 1994a: 103 (diagnosis, review of genus); Arakelian, 1994: 103 (Armenia species key); Bolton, 1994: 50 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1048 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 135 (catalogue); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 375 (Saudi Arabia species key); Seifert, 1996b: 179 (Central Europe species key); Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 28 (Portugal species key); Radchenko, 1998: 502 (Asia species key); Radchenko, 2001: 885 (phylogeny); Chang & He, 2002b: 62 (northwest China species key); Bolton, 2003: 126 (synopsis); Seifert, 2007: 159 (North and Central Europe species key).