Cataglyphis viaticoides (E. André )

Agosti, Donat, 1990, Review and reclassification of Cataglyphis (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), Journal of Natural History 24, pp. 1457-1505 : 1495

Cataglyphis viaticoides (E. André)

Myrmecocystus albicans var. viaticoides E. Andre , 1881: 57. Syntypes workers, Lebanon (Beyrouth, leg. Abeille), MNHP, MHNG [examined; see note below], [Later changes: Myrmecocystus albicans r. viaticoides, Forel , 1902a: 156; Myrmecocystus albicans var viaticoides, Forel , 1904: 383; Myrmecocystus albicans ssp. viaticoides, Emery , 1906: 53; Cataglyphis (Cataglyphis) albicans ssp. viaticoides, Emery , 1925: 263; Cataglyphis (Cataglyphis) albicans st. viaticoides, Santschi , 1929a: 55; Cataglyphis (Cataglyphis) albicans ssp. viaticoides, Menozzi , 1933: 85; Cataglyphis viaticoides, Arnoldi , 1964: 1809.] (Description of male genitalia: Arnoldi, 1964: 1809, fig. 9; distribution: Tinaut and Plaza, 1989: 197.)

Note. The syntypes do not correspond with the current conception (Kugler, 1988 and personal communication, Collingwood, personal communication) of viaticoides , since all the syntypes are uniform bright yellow and do not have a darker gaster.

Tinaut and Plaza ( 1989) point out that the bicoloured form in the Iberian peninsula might be rosenhaueri and not viaticoides , but do not give diagnostic characters to separate the taxa.

One worker syntype in MHNG is labelled ‘Sevilla’ and is possibly misidentified ( = rosenhaueri !).