Cardiocondyla yemeni Collingwood & Agosti, 1996

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, Amr A. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2022, Faunal composition, diversity, and distribution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Dhofar Governorate, Oman, with updated list of the Omani species and remarks on zoogeography, European Journal of Taxonomy 838 (1), pp. 1-106 : 44-47

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2022.838.1925

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D495BCAE-9E03-4424-A01B-87F1CEB16B9C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7094459

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1461EC42-FFBB-FF96-FE74-034214C0FC9B

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Cardiocondyla yemeni Collingwood & Agosti, 1996
status

 

Cardiocondyla yemeni Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 View in CoL

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Cardiocondyla yemeni Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 328 View in CoL (w). Yemen. Afrotropic.

Diagnosis

Uniform yellow; propodeal spines short and broad dentate; petiole in profile slightly low and broadly rounded; postpetiole narrow in dorsal view, clearly less than twice as broad as petiole; legs and antennae pale yellow-brown; reticulopunctate sculpture on whole body dorsum.

Material examined

OMAN – Dhofar • 14 w; Ayn Razat ; 17.130° N, 54.236° E; alt. 121 m; 20 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA GoogleMaps .

Ecological and biological notes

It was collected from leaf litter under a tree of Ziziphus sp. where the soil was mixed with sheep and goat feces.

Geographic range

This species was first described from Yemen ( Collingwood & Agosti 1996) and recently recorded from Oman ( Sharaf et al. 2018a). This species is reported here for the first time in Dhofar.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

SubOrder

Apocrita

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Cardiocondyla

Loc

Cardiocondyla yemeni Collingwood & Agosti, 1996

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, Amr A. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S. 2022
2022
Loc

Cardiocondyla yemeni

Collingwood C. A. & Agosti D. 1996: 328
1996
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