Cataglyphis viaticoides ( Andre , 1881)

Salata, Sebastian, Kiyani, Haniyeh, Minaei, Kambiz & Borowiec, Lech, 2021, Taxonomic review of the Cataglyphis livida complex (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with a description of a new species from Iran, ZooKeys 1010, pp. 117-131 : 117

Cataglyphis viaticoides ( Andre, 1881)

Myrmecocystus albicans var. viaticoides André, 1881: 57.

Myrmecocystus albicans viaticoides Syntype worker, Beirut, Lebanon (MNHN) [syntype worker images examined, AntWeb, CASENT0912236, photographs by Zach Lieberman, available on AntWeb.org].

Myrmecocystus albicans viaticoides = Cataglyphis livida bulgarica subsp. bulgarica Atanassov, 1982: 213, syn. nov.

Cataglyphis livida bulgarica bulgarica Type specimens unavailable.

Myrmecocystus albicans mixtus = Myrmecocystus albicans var. mixtus Forel, 1895: 229, syn. nov.

Myrmecocystus albicans mixtus Syntype worker, Edirne, Turkey (MHNG) [syntype worker images examined, AntWeb, CASENT0911104, photographs by Zach Lieberman, available on AntWeb.org].

Diagnosis.

Head and mesosoma uniformly yellowish red to reddish yellow, gaster entirely or mostly dark; thin layer of silvery hair limited to propodeum.

Distribution.

Balkans and Asia Minor.

Note.

Radchenko (1997), based on confusion related to the type labels of C. livida and C. viaticoides (see Bračko et al. 2016), considered C. livida bulgarica and C. albicans mixtus as junior synonyms of C. livida . Results presented by Bračko et al. (2016) clarified that the only member of the Cataglyphis livida complex with entirely or mostly black gaster is C. viaticoides and thus Cataglyphis livida bulgarica Atanassov, 1982 and Cataglyphis albicans mixtus (Forel, 1895) should be considered as its junior synonyms.