Cataglyphis holgerseni Collingwood & Agosti

Type location Israel (Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 379; not illustrated, worker); worker only known; by inference, the illustration of "niger" in Collingwood (1985) seems actually to be of holgerseni.

Collector Holger Holgersen, from Sinai, near Eilat, 23.xii.1978, holotype & paratype workers; also known from Saudi Arabia & Oman.

Collingwood & Agosti described it as similar to savignyi but although both have a high propodeum that is smoothly rounded in holgerseni, with the dorsum and declivity meeting at a rounded right angle.

Collingwood & Agosti's (1996) description is at .

Modern Egypt Records - Material examined: Sahab: 1.IV.1998 (3), 2.V.1998 (9), 12.VII.1998 (4), 10.VIII.1998 (9), 11.VIII.1998 (1), 18.II.1999 (3); W.El-Arbaein: 1.IV.1998 (3), 3.V.1998 (5), 13.VII.1998 (3), 11.VIII.1998 (7), 9.IX.1998 (8), 19.II.1999 (6), Ebn Salam: 4.III.1999 (5) (Ain Coll.).

The photomontage is of specimens collected and photographed by Mostafa Sharaf.