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<document ENCODING="UTF-8" ID-DOI="10.5281/zenodo.13082" ID-GBIF-Dataset="1586aec3-17ca-44c7-ba95-a38c2a467465" ID-HNS-Pub="22315" ModsDocAuthor="Badawy, R. M." ModsDocID="22315" checkinTime="1252707038245" checkinUser="donat" docAuthor="Fadl, H., Bakr, R. F. & Badawy, R. M." docDate="2007" docId="C34D039301E21320D6E3E6B7E8BBFC96" docLanguage="en" docName="22315.xml" docOrigin="Proceedings of the 2 nd International Conference of the Entomological Society of Egypt 2" docTitle="Cataglyphis agostii Fadl, Bakr & Badawy, 2007, n. sp." docType="treatment" docVersion="9" lastPageNumber="239" masterDocId="D4F853101EB8608A8BD0E5B08F2CB167" masterDocTitle="Six new species of ants (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Egypt." masterLastPageNumber="249" masterPageNumber="235" pageNumber="238" updateTime="1676979624279" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>Six new species of ants (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Egypt.</mods:title>
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<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
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<mods:namePart>Fadl, H.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
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<mods:namePart>Bakr, R. F.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
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<mods:namePart>Badawy, R. M.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:title>Proceedings of the 2 nd International Conference of the Entomological Society of Egypt</mods:title>
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<mods:date>2007</mods:date>
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<mods:detail type="volume">
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<mods:number>2</mods:number>
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<mods:start>235</mods:start>
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<mods:end>249</mods:end>
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<mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification>
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<mods:identifier type="HNS-PUB">22315</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="HNS-Pub">22315</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">10.5281/zenodo.13082</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5641190" ID-GBIF-Taxon="114935180" ID-Zenodo-Dep="5641190" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:C34D039301E21320D6E3E6B7E8BBFC96" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C34D039301E21320D6E3E6B7E8BBFC96" lastPageNumber="239" pageNumber="238">
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<subSubSection type="nomenclature">
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<paragraph pageNumber="238">
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<taxonomicName LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:245571" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Cataglyphis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Cataglyphis agostii Sharaf" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="238" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="agostii">Cataglyphis agostii Sharaf</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicNameLabel rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection type="materials_examined">
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<paragraph pageNumber="238">
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<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="3396421301" collectingDate="1997-05-23" collectionCode="SHC" collectorName="S.Sinai" country="Egypt" httpUri="http://www.antweb.org/specimen/CASENT0913666" latitude="28.6944" location="Gebel Ras Abuhebeig" longitude="33.6451" typeStatus="Holotype">
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<typeStatus>Holotype</typeStatus>
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: 1 worker,
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<collectingCountry>Egypt</collectingCountry>
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,
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<location LSID="plazi:84E9E7E80A60FAE373DA8E6C8C93B342:95B780E5EEA62D28E90E5BAF7E301402" country="Egypt" name="Gebel Ras Abuhebeig">Gebel Ras Abuhebeig</location>
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<location LSID="plazi:84E9E7E80A60FAE373DA8E6C8C93B342:E3B77F8A50AED8024F963E3DD1203F9D" country="Egypt" name="Gebel Serbaal">Gebel Serbaal</location>
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<collectorName>S.Sinai</collectorName>
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<collectingDate day="23" month="05" value="1997-05-23" year="1997">23.V.1997</collectingDate>
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<collectorName>M. R. Sharaf</collectorName>
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(
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<collectionCode collectionName="SHC">SHC</collectionCode>
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)
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</materialsCitation>
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.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageNumber="238">Type locality: Egypt, Gebel Ras Abuhebeig, Gebel Serbaal, S.Sinai.</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection type="description">
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<paragraph pageNumber="238">Measurements of Holotype: TL:10.79; HL:3.32; HW:2.73; SL:3.56; SI:130.4; CI: 82.2</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph lastPageNumber="239" pageNumber="238">Diagnosis: (Figures 3, 4) (Worker): Color dark brown, anterior part of the head and the distal part of the femur yellowish; antennae, mandibles and tarsi clear yellow; femur brown or pale brown. Head longer than broad; the area between the short frontal carinae finely longitudinally striated; the whole head with fine sculptures; mandibles smooth and shining, longitudinally striated, armed with five strong brown teeth and having many long yellow hairs; posterior part of clypeus having a pair of long yellow hairs; occiput straight with four pairs of hairs.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageNumber="239">Pronotum with one pair of short hairs, mesonotum bare, propodeum moderately low with 9 long yellow hairs. Petiole is a truncated node with a flat dorsal surface slopping forward and having relatively dense whitish pubescence in the dorsal and lateral sides and 2 pairs of hairs.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageNumber="239">Gaster globular and shining; the first gastral tergite bare while the second with one pair of hairs at the posterior margin; the end of the gaster with few long scattered yellow hairs.</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection type="biology_ecology">
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<paragraph pageNumber="239">
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Affinities: This species belongs to the
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<taxonomicName LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:27394" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Cataglyphis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Cataglyphis albicans (Roger)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="239" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="albicans">albicans</taxonomicName>
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group and it appears taxonomically closest to
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<taxonomicName LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:27434" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Cataglyphis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Cataglyphis minimus Collingwood" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="239" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minimus">C. minimus Collingwood</taxonomicName>
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, 1985 which was described from Saudi Arabia. Both of them are shining black, appendages yellow, body smooth and shining almost without sculpture but
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<taxonomicName LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:245571" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Cataglyphis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Cataglyphis agostii Sharaf" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="239" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="agostii">C. agostii</taxonomicName>
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is consistently larger, TL 10.79 versus 4.4 mm; and has a larger scape index, SI 130.4 versus SI 106.5. Moreover, both species are different in pilosity,
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<taxonomicName LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:245571" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Cataglyphis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Cataglyphis agostii Sharaf" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="239" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="agostii">C. agostii</taxonomicName>
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has one pair of short hairs on pronotum, mesonotum bare, propodeum with 9 long yellow hairs.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection type="etymology">
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<paragraph pageNumber="239">
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Etymology: This species is named after the Swiss ant taxonomist, Dr. Donat Agosti, the specialist of the genus
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<taxonomicName LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:2505" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Cataglyphis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Cataglyphis Förster" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="239" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Cataglyphis</taxonomicName>
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, research associate, American Museum of Natural History, New York.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection type="discussion">
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<paragraph pageNumber="239">Remarks: This species was collected from an elevated and semi-isolated site on Gebel Sebaal, over 1500 m, and was found nesting under a rock. Only one individual was collected (the holotype).</paragraph>
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</treatment>
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