Cataglyphis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Cataglyphis
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Cataglyphis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cataglyphis
Cataglyphis is a genus of ant, desert ants, 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 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 by desert ants.
...Cataglyphis in languages:
- English
- Sahara Ants and Allies
- Hebrew
- נווטת
- Russian
- Муравьи-бегунки
- Russian
- Фаэтончики
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Parent Taxon
Child Taxa
- Cataglyphis abyssinica
- Cataglyphis adenensis
- Cataglyphis aenescens
- Cataglyphis agostii
- Cataglyphis albicans
- Cataglyphis alibabae
- Cataglyphis arenaria
- Cataglyphis aurata
- Cataglyphis bicolor
- Cataglyphis bombycina
- Cataglyphis cretica
- Cataglyphis cursor
- Cataglyphis fortis
- Cataglyphis gadeai
- Cataglyphis hannae
- Cataglyphis hispanica
- Cataglyphis holgerseni
- Cataglyphis humeya
- Cataglyphis iberica
- Cataglyphis isis
- Cataglyphis italica
- Cataglyphis kurdistanica
- Cataglyphis laevior
- Cataglyphis laylae
- Cataglyphis livida
- Cataglyphis longipedem
- Cataglyphis machmal
- Cataglyphis nigra
- Cataglyphis nodus
- Cataglyphis oasium
- Cataglyphis pallida
- Cataglyphis piliscapa
- Cataglyphis rosenhaueri
- Cataglyphis rubra
- Cataglyphis savignyi
- Cataglyphis setipes
- Cataglyphis tartessica
- Cataglyphis velox
- Cataglyphis viatica
- Cataglyphis viaticoides
























































































































































