Cataglyphis tartessica

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Cataglyphis tartessica
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Genus: Cataglyphis
Species:
C. tartessica
Binomial name
Cataglyphis tartessica
(, 2014)

Cataglyphis tartessica is an ant species of the genus Cataglyphis, it is endemic to Spain, mostly Western Andalucia,[1] in the provinces of Huelva, Seville and Cadiz.

It belongs in a group shared by .[2]

Coloration wise this species looks similar to with redish orange head and thorax and black gaster, although C. tartessica is more orange while C. velox is more brownish. One of the main physical differentations is the shape of the petiole.

References[]

  1. ^ "Distribution map of C. tartessica".
  2. ^ "Cataglyphis tartessica sp.n., a new ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in south-western Spain".

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