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Sahara Ants and Allies
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Sahara Ants and Allies

Cataglyphis

Cataglyphis, or desert ants, is a genus of ant in the subfamily Formicinae. Its most famous species is C. bicolor, the Sahara Desert ant, which runs on hot sand to find insects that died of heat exhaustion, and can, like other several other Cataglyphis species, sustain body temperatures of up to 50 °C. Cataglyphis is also the name of an autonomous rover that won the NASA Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge inspired by the navigation approaches used...

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13 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Bicolor-group Sahara Ants

complexCataglyphis bicolor

Cataglyphis cursor

complexCataglyphis cursor

Cataglyphis albicans

complexCataglyphis albicans

Altisquamis-group Sahara Ants

complexCataglyphis altisquamis

Bombycina-group Sahara Ants

complexCataglyphis bombycina

Cataglyphis pallida

complexCataglyphis pallida

Cataglyphis nigripes

speciesCataglyphis nigripes

Cataglyphis emmae

complexCataglyphis emmae

Cataglyphis urens

speciesCataglyphis urens

Cataglyphis zakharovi

speciesCataglyphis zakharovi

Cataglyphis convexus

speciesCataglyphis convexus

Cataglyphis pubescens

speciesCataglyphis pubescens

Cataglyphis stigmata

speciesCataglyphis stigmata

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 82193.