Cataglyphis argentatus (Radoszkowsky)

Type location Egypt (Camponotus argentata, Radoszkowsky, 1876: 140, worker; junior synonym of bombycinus Dalla Torre, 1893: 217; revived from synonymy Agosti, 1990a: 1492) worker only known - no images on Antweb (October 2015).

Cataglyphis argentatus (Radoszkowsky, 1876: 140, worker); in albicans-group (Agosti, 1990a: 1492) but Agosti noted the type specimens could not be found; he also noted the type location may have been Ethiopia [not in Santschi, 1929b] - in HNS as Camponotus argentata Radoszkowsky.

Radoszkowsky's (1876) description is at .

In translation - TL 5 mm; pale rufous or ferruginous, with the upper surface of the head, pedicel, femora and gaster densely covered with short, decumbent whitish hairs, silky, with a silvery reflection. Head large; antennae inserted at the border of the clypeus; which is triangular with a median carina; the mandibles strong, flattened with five teeth. Ocelli feebly indicated. Mesonotum [propodeum?] weakly narrowed and dorsally concave. Petiole scale narrow and rounded. Legs strong. Gaster rounded almost spherical. The figure in Savigny Plate 20 strongly resembles this species.

There seems a strong possibility that this and C. lividus are synonymous; if so this is the senior name and lividus would have to become the junior synonym. Alternatively, it may be the minor morph of C. bombycinus in which the mesonotum proper is shallowly concave in profile.