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.