Order Hymenoptera, family Formicidae
Cedric A. Collingwood
Donat Agosti
Mostafa R. Sharaf
Antonius van Harten
Arthropod fauna of the UAE
2011
2011-05-31
4
1
70
42837
Foerster, 1850
Foerster
1850
[276,688,1582,1606]
Insecta
Formicidae
Messor
GBIF
Animalia
Hymenoptera
21
22
Arthropoda
species
rufotestaceus
Specimens examined: Wadi Khatam, iii.1995, leg. B. Tigar.
Distribution: Recorded from the northern Sahara, Palestine and Syria. First recorded from the UAE by Tigar & Collingwood (1993). In the Arabian Peninsula also known from Saudi Arabia and Oman.