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Cataglyphis bombycina

Saharan silver ant

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Cataglyphis bombycinus (Roger, 1859)

GBIF · view at source · updated on 03/07/2026

Saharan Silver Ant

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Animalia · Arthropoda · Insecta · Hymenoptera · Formicidae · Cataglyphis

Cataglyphis bombycina

Wikidata · view at source · CC0 · updated on 03/07/2026

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(c) Julien Piolain, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Julien Piolain · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

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Occurrences (GBIF) 14 countries · 334 records

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Year	Records
1893	1
1897	1
1898	2
1904	1
1907	1
1909	2
1910	2
1914	15
1931	1
1960	8
1973	1
2005	1
2006	1
2007	2
2008	1
2009	6
2010	8
2011	2
2013	1
2014	1
2015	3
2016	2
2017	2
2018	11
2019	4
2020	9
2021	5
2022	17
2023	46
2024	41
2025	73
2026	41

Morocco · 160 Algeria · 53 Egypt · 38 Mauritania · 20 United Arab Emirates · 14 Western Sahara · 12 Tunisia · 9 Israel · 8 Libya · 8 Mali · 6 Albania · 2 Jordan · 2 Niger · 1 Chad · 1

Egypt 15/06/2026 · Mahmoud Fayez · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Mauritania 06/05/2026 · Thomas ARMAND · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Israel 05/05/2026 · NoahM · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record

Morocco 03/05/2026 · Dan Stiver · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Egypt 03/05/2026 · Mahmoud Fayez · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Egypt 20/04/2026 · Mahmoud Fayez · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Egypt 13/04/2026 · Mahmoud Fayez · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Egypt 08/04/2026 · Ismael Khalifa · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Morocco 08/04/2026 · Thijs Valkenburg · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Egypt 07/04/2026 · Ayat Omar · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

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