Tetramorium simillimum ( Smith, 1851 )

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Fisher, Brian L., Collingwood, Cedric A. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2017, Ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen): zoogeography, distribution and description of a new species, Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 51 (5 - 6), pp. 317-378 : 359

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2016.1271157

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:89612083-9CE6-48E8-8975-1CE5334E098B

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5192405

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039DB655-163D-FFD2-B499-E1ED68AECB06

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Tetramorium simillimum ( Smith, 1851 )
status

 

Tetramorium simillimum ( Smith, 1851) View in CoL

( Figure 23 View Figure 23 (a–c))

Myrmica simillima Smith, 1851: 118 View Cited Treatment (w.) Great Britain. Palaearctic.

Diagnosis

Worker. Frontal carinae long and strongly developed, running back unbroken to posterior margin of head and out curving posteriorly; antennal scrobes well-developed forming distinct concavity on each side between frontal carinae and eyes; propodeal spines, short, triangular, and acute; cephalic dorsum finely and densely irregularly longitudinally rugulose; scrobal surface densely reticulate-punctate; body pilosity short, stout and blunt. Colour yellow to yellowish brown, gaster dark brown.

Material examined

Yemen, Socotra Island, Qalansyia, w. Taisoh, 25 April 2014, 67 m, (M. R. Sharaf leg.), 12.65880°N, 53.46988°E (2 w, KSMA); GoogleMaps Yemen, Socotra Island, Lehanoh, 22 April 2014, 931 m, (M. R. Sharaf leg.), 12.57583°N, 54.04836°E (5 w, KSMA, 1 w, CASC) GoogleMaps .

Geographic range

This species is a successful invasive and is considered cosmopolitan. Tetramorium simillimum is of African origin ( Bolton 1977) with a broad distribution in the Oriental, Indo-Australian, Australian, Neotropical ( Kempf 1972), Nearctic ( Creighton 1950) and Polynesian ( Wilson and Taylor 1967) regions. From the Arabian Peninsula, it has been recorded from KSA and Yemen ( Collingwood and Agosti 1996).

Ecological and biological notes

Workers of this species were found foraging on the soil under thrown, dry, date palm fronds. Several workers were found foraging on the ground under grasses.

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Tetramorium

Loc

Tetramorium simillimum ( Smith, 1851 )

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Fisher, Brian L., Collingwood, Cedric A. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S. 2017
2017
Loc

Myrmica simillima

Smith F 1851: 118
1851
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