Genus Cataglyphis (Formicinae)

• Cataglyphis Foerster, 1850b: 293. Type species: Cataglyphis fairmairei Foerster, by monotypy. Cataglyphis junior synonym of Myrmecocystus: Forel, 1878c: 372; Forel, 1886h: 201; Mayr, 1886d: 424. Revived from synonymy: Wheeler, W.M. 1913a: 78. The type species, Cataglyphis fairmairei Foerster, is a junior synonym of Formica bicolor Fabricius.
• Monocombus Mayr, G. 1855: 381. Type species: Formica viatica Fabricius, by monotypy. Monocombus juinor synonym of Cataglyphis: Mayr, 1861: 44. Junior synonym of Myrmecocystus: Mayr, 1886d: 424. Junior synonym of Cataglyphis: Dalla Torre, 1893: 216; Wheeler, W.M. 1922j: 944; Emery, 1925d: 261. Revived from synonymy as subgenus of Cataglyphis: Santschi, 1929b: 29. Synonymy: Mayr, G. 1861: 44 ; Agosti, 1990b: 1462; Agosti, 1994b: 103 .
• Paraformica Forel, 1915b: 95 (footnote, as subgenus of Formica) . Type species: Formica (Paraformica) emmae Forel, by monotypy. Paraformica raised to genus: Emery, 1925d: 260. Subgenus of Cataglyphis: Santschi, 1925g: 353; Santschi, 1929b: 30. Subgenus of Proformica: Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1928a: 7. Synonymy: Brown, W.L. 1973b: 183 (Paraformica provisional junior synonym of Cataglyphis) ; Agosti, 1990b: 1462 (Paraformica junior synonym of Cataglyphis) ; Agosti, 1994b: 103 (Paraformica junior synonym of Cataglyphis) .
• Machaeromyrma Forel, 1916: 441 (as subgenus of Cataglyphis) . Type species: Formica bombycina Roger, by original designation. Synonymy: Baroni Urbani, 1969c: 218; Agosti, 1990b: 1462.
• Eomonocombus Arnol´di, 1968b: 1815 (as subgenus of Cataglyphis) . Type species: Myrmecocystus cinnamomeus Karavaiev, by original designation. Synonymy: Brown, W.L. 1973b: 180 (Eomonocombus provisional junior synonym of Cataglyphis) ; Agosti, 1990b: 1462 (Eomonocombus junior synonym of Cataglyphis) ; Agosti, 1994b: 103 (Eomonocombus junior synonym of Cataglyphis) .

• OVERVIEW.   Cataglyphis contains about 60 species that are found in dry habitats such as steppe, savannah, the Mediterranean type ecosystem, and the desert. Only a few species occupy the desert itself but many live at the edge of deserts in the woods and the oasis.
• ZOOGEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS.  Palearctic, Afrotopical, Oriental.
• TRIBE.  Formicini.
• TAXONOMY.   Santschi, 1929b: 56 (key to species - out of date) .— Agosti, 1990b: 1457 (review of genus) .— Agosti, 1994b: 103 (review of genus) .— Radchenko, 1998: 502–508 (key to Asian species (in Russian)) .—Bolton, 2003: 277.
• MISCELLANEOUS.   Dlussky, 1981b: 1–230 (natural history of many species (in Russian)) .