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Issue: Vol. 5264 No. 3: 14 Apr. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-04-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5264.3.1
Page range: 301-322
Abstract views: 429
PDF downloaded: 21

The ant genus Cataglyphis Förster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Cyprus

University of Wrocław; Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy; Myrmecological Laboratory; Przybyszewskiego 65; 51-148 Wrocław; Poland
Department of Ecology and Systematics; Faculty of Biology; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; 15784 Athens; Greece; Joint Services Health Unit Cyprus; BFC RAF Akrotiri BFPO 57; Akrotiri; Cyprus; Enalia Physis Environmental Research Centre; Acropoleos 2; Aglantzia 2101; Nicosia; Cyprus
Section of Zoology and Marine Biology; Department of Biology; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; 15784 Athens; Greece; Museum of Zoology; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; 15784 Athens; Greece
University of Wrocław; Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy; Myrmecological Laboratory; Przybyszewskiego 65; 51-148 Wrocław; Poland
Hymenoptera Cataglyphis aphrodite Cataglyphis chionistrae desert ants endemic species

Abstract

The comprehensive survey of the ant fauna conducted in Cyprus revealed that the island is inhabited by two species of the genus Cataglyphis Förster, 1850. Both species are endemic and are described as new to science. Cataglyphis chionistrae n. sp., a member of the C. cursor species complex, occurs only in the high montane pine forest of Mt. Chionistra (= Mt. Olympos). While C. aphrodite n. sp., a member of the C. nodus species complex, is common at low and mid altitudes in open habitats or luminous pine forests. This work also provides the key to Cataglyphis from Cyprus and the very first synopsis lists of all the members of the cursor and nodus species complexes known from the Eastern Mediterranean Region.

 

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