TY - JOUR
T1 - The ant genus Cataglyphis Förster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Cyprus
AU - Salata, Sebastian
AU - Demetriou, Jakovos
AU - Georgiadis, Christos
AU - Borowiec, Lech
N1 - Funding Information:
Lech Borowiec and Sebastian Salata thank the University of Wroclaw for supporting collecting trips to Cyprus. Jakovos Demetriou acknowledges the UK Government through Darwin Plus (DPLUS124), for funding part of this project and surveys in Akrotiri UK SBA. Lech Borowiec thanks Dr Jolanta Świętojańska (University of Wrocław) for her assistance during his first collecting field trip to Cyprus in 2012.
Funding Information:
Lech Borowiec and Sebastian Salata thank the University of Wroclaw for supporting collecting trips to Cyprus. Jakovos Demetriou acknowledges the UK Government through Darwin Plus (DPLUS124), for funding part of this project and surveys in Akrotiri UK SBA. Lech Borowiec thanks Dr Jolanta Świȩtojańska (University of Wrocław) for her assistance during his first collecting field trip to Cyprus in 2012.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/4/14
Y1 - 2023/4/14
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Cataglyphis aphrodite
KW - Cataglyphis chionistrae
KW - desert ants
KW - endemic species
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U2 - 10.11646/zootaxa.5264.3.1
DO - 10.11646/zootaxa.5264.3.1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85159089058
SN - 1175-5326
VL - 5264
SP - 301
EP - 322
JO - Zootaxa
JF - Zootaxa
IS - 3
ER -