A new synonymy has been stablished between Plagiolepis obscuriscapa Santschi, 1923 and Plagiolepis pygmaea (Latreille, 1798)1.  read more »

1. 1. Boer P .  2008.  Plagiolepis obscuriscapa Santschi, 1923, a junior synonym of Plagiolepis pygmaea (Latreille, 1798) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) and the use of pigmentation as discriminating character in ant taxonomy. Zool. Med. Leiden. 82(43):495-488.

This ant is wrongly spelled at Bolton et al (2005)1 as Cataglyphis zakhorovi, as can be checked at the original publication found at antbase.org in the associated link

1. 1. Bolton B, Alpert G, Ward PS, Naskrecki P .  2006.  Bolton's Catalogue of Ants of the World 1758-2005.