Cataglyphis megalocola (Foerster, 1850) junior synonym of current valid taxon Cataglyphis bicolor (Fabricius, 1793)
Formica megalocola Foerster, 1850b: 490 (w.) ALGERIA. Palearctic.
Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Algeria: (no further data). Primary type depository: unknown. Type notes: 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 78, Foerster’s formicid types are in MNHU, but Agosti, 1990b: 1487, could not find it, and Seifert & Schultz, 2009b: 271, state that “According to our own search in German collections type material of Förster is completely destroyed”.
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