Plagiolepis boltoni Sharaf and Aldawood, 2011
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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2024.2388791 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D9FD3B-FF86-FFB1-FE8C-FEA6AC8CFBC3 |
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Plagiolepis boltoni Sharaf and Aldawood, 2011 |
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Plagiolepis boltoni Sharaf and Aldawood, 2011 View in CoL
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Plagiolepis boltoni Sharaf and Aldawood, 2011, p. 204 View in CoL , fig. 2a–c (w.) Saudi Arabia.
Palaearctic.
Diagnosis
Worker. Unicolourous yellow, eyes and apex of gaster black, mandible teeth brown; head distinctly longer than broad, second funicular segment distinctly shorter than the third, fourth funicular segment distinctly longer than broad, nearly subequal to the third; scapes surpass occiput by about a quarter of their length; eyes large with 12 ommatidia in the longest row; profile of mesosoma elongated, with a flattish dorsal surface and a weak metanotal groove; whole mesosoma bare.
Material examined
Three sites: 2; 10; 12.
Geographic range. Plagiolepis boltoni was originally described from the KSA and collected from Oman ( Sharaf et al. 2018).
Ecology and biology. In the KSA, P. boltoni nests directly in the humid soil in date palm plantations of the Riyadh Province ( KSA) (Sharaf et al. 2011), whereas in Oman, it was observed nesting under stones directly in dry soil and next to a pomegranate tree, Punica granatum L. ( Lythraceae ).
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Plagiolepis boltoni Sharaf and Aldawood, 2011
| Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, AbdulAziz M. A., Georgiadis, Christos, Nasser, Mohamed G. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S. 2024 |
Plagiolepis boltoni
| Sharaf and Aldawood 2011: 204 |