Lepisiota elbazi Sharaf & Hita Garcia, 2020

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, Amr A. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2022, Faunal composition, diversity, and distribution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Dhofar Governorate, Oman, with updated list of the Omani species and remarks on zoogeography, European Journal of Taxonomy 838 (1), pp. 1-106 : 31

Lepisiota elbazi Sharaf & Hita Garcia, 2020

Fig. 18

Lepisiota elbazi Sharaf & Hita Garcia, 2020 in Sharaf et al. 2020: 134 (w) Afrotropic.

Diagnosis

Bicolored species, head, mesosoma, petiole yellow or red-yellow, distal end of scapes, first funicular segment, and mandibular teeth darker; gaster dark brown to black with first tergite of lighter brown. In profile, posterior margin of head anteroposteriorly compressed; limited number of hair pairs on body: two pairs on posterior margin of head, two to three pairs on promesonotum, and one to two pairs on first gastral tergite.

Material examined

OMAN – Dhofar • w, holotype; Ayn Razat ; 17.124° N, 54.238° E; alt. 98 m; 20 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 1 w, paratype; same collection data as for holotype; CASENT0922860; KSMA .

Ecological and biological notes

The two workers of the species were collected at Ayn Razat ( Fig. 18 ) and were collected foraging in leaf litter under a tree of Vachellia where the soil was dry ( Sharaf et al. 2020a).

Geographic range

Oman.

Figures

Fig. 18. Lepisiota elbazi Sharaf & Hita Garcia, 2020, paratype, worker (CASENT0922860, AntWeb.org (Michele Esposito)). A. Body in profile. B. Head in full-face view. C. Distribution map.