Cataglyphis livida
Creators: name: Sharaf, Mostafa R.
name: Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S.
name: Mohamed, Amr A.
name: Fisher, Brian L.
name: Aldawood, Abdulrahman S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Cataglyphis
Cataglyphis livida

description: <i>Cataglyphis livida</i> (André, 1881) (Fig. 9 A–C) <i>Myrmecocystus albicans</i> var. <i>lividus</i> André, 1881a: 58 (w.) Palestine. Palearctic. <b> <i>Diagnosis.</i> Worker.</b> Body uniformly yellow, gaster usually darker; posterior margin of head with about three pairs of setae; propodeum and petiole with few erect setae; sides of mesonotum and propodeum with appressed silvery pubescence; cephalic surface superficially sculptured. <b> <i>Material examined</i>.</b> Al Kharara-Seleiyn Road, 09.iv.2005, 24 <b>°</b> 53 <b>’</b> N, 51 <b>°</b> 10 <b>’</b> E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 2w, (KSMA). <b> <i>Geographic distribution</i>.</b> <i>Cataglyphis livida</i>occupies a broad geographic range through the Palearctic region ranging from Algeria and Egypt to Afghanistan (Radchenko, 1997 b); and extends north into Turkey and Bulgaria. It also has been reported from most countries of the Arabian Peninsula (Collingwood 1985, Tigar and Collingwood 1993, Collingwood and Agosti 1996, Tigar and Osborne 1999, Collingwood <i>et al.</i> 2011). <b> <i>Ecological and biological notes</i>.</b> <i>Cataglyphis livida</i> is a common species at nature reserves in Riyadh Province (e.g. Rawdhat Khorim) where the population peaks in spring and in June (Sharaf <i>et al.</i> 2013). This species was found to be abundant foraging on <i>Acacia gerrardii</i> Benth. (Fabaceae). This species is recorded for the first time from Qatar.
description: Published as part of <i>Sharaf, Mostafa R., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Mohamed, Amr A., Fisher, Brian L. &amp; Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2020, A Preliminary Synopsis of the Ant Fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Qatar with Remarks on the Zoogeography, pp. 533-560 in Annales Zoologici 70 (4)</i> on pages 540-542, DOI: 10.3161/00034541anz2020.70.4.005, http://zenodo.org/record/4433537
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