Messor ebeninus Santschi, 1927

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2013, The ants (Hymenoptera: formicidae) of Rawdhat Khorim Nature Preserve, Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species of the genus Tetramorium Mayr, Zootaxa 3709 (6), pp. 565-580 : 572

Messor ebeninus Santschi, 1927

( Fig. 5 e, f )

Messor semirufus var. ebeninus Santschi, 1927: 229 . Raised to species: Tohmé, 1971: 569. Junior synonym of Messor semirufus: Baroni Urbani, 1974: 227 . Revived from synonymy: Tohmé & Tohmé, 1981:142.

This species is widely distributed throughout the Arabian Peninsula ( Collingwood, 1985, Collingwood and Agosti, 1996). At Rawdhat Khorim, worker activity has two peaks of abundance, in April and December, decreasing from July through October.

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FIGURE 5. a, b Cataglyphis minima (CASENT0249862, Saudi Arabia), c, d, Cataglyphis niger (CASENT0280330, Yemen); e, f, Messor ebeninus (CASENT0249861, Saudi Arabia); g, h, Monomorium mayri (CASENT0249904, India).