@article {2685, title = {Taxonomic review of the Cataglyphis livida complex (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with a description of a new species from Iran}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {1010}, year = {2021}, pages = {117-131}, abstract = {

Cataglyphis\  fici sp.\  nov.,\  a\  member\  of\  the\  Cataglyphis\  livida\  complex,\  is\  described\  from\  the\  Estahban\  county of south-western Iran. The species is characterized by small body size and yellow to yellowish red body coloration with distinctly infuscated legs. Additionally, the taxonomic status of all known members of the Cataglyphis livida complex is updated. Cataglyphis lutea Pisarski, 1967, stat. rev. is raised to the species level and Cataglyphis viaticoides (Andr\é, 1881) is proposed as a senior synonym of Cataglyphis livida bulgarica\  Atanassov,\  1982,\  syn.\  nov.\  and\  Cataglyphis\  albicans\  mixtus\  (Forel,\  1895),\  syn.\  nov.\  Finally,\  a\  provisional key to members of the livida complex is provided.

}, keywords = {Cataglyphis, eastern Mediterranean, key to species, south-western Iran, taxonomy}, author = {Salata, Sebastian and Kiyani, Haniyeh and Minaei, Kambiz and Borowiec, Lech} } @article {1796, title = {Cryptic diversity in the Mediterranean Temnothorax lichtensteini species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)}, journal = {Organisms Diversity \& Evolution}, year = {2013}, pages = {1-14}, abstract = {

In this paper we provide insight into the cryptic diversity and biogeographic patterns of a widely distributed Mediterranean ant species, Temnothorax lichtensteini (Bondroit Annales de la Soci\ét\é Entomologique de France 87:1\–174, 1918), based on evidence from multiple data sources. An exploratory analysis of morphometric data, combined with sequencing of a 652 bp fragment of the mitochondrial gene for
the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (CO I), indicates the existence of three distinct lineages. Divergence of two recognised genetic lineages, Western and Eastern Mediterranean clusters, is not reliably supported by confirmatory analysis of morphological data. We hypothesise that this reflects incomplete speciation in separate glacial refugia and therefore discuss only biogeographic aspects of these two parapatric populations. However, the third, Peloponnese, lineage is divergent in both morphology and CO I sequences and its separation from the other two lineages is convincingly confirmed. For this lineage we assume a completed speciation and describe the taxon formally as Temnothorax laconicus sp.n., the sister species of T. lichtensteini.

}, keywords = {Biogeography, Cryptic species, Exploratory data analysis, Integrative taxonomy, Morphometrics, taxonomy}, doi = {10.1007/s13127-013-0153-3}, author = {Cs{\H o}sz, S{\'a}ndor and Seifert, Bernhard and M{\"u}ller, Benedikt and Trindl, Andreas and Schulz, Andreas and Heinze, J{\"u}rgen} }