Carebara arabica ( Collingwood & van Harten, 2001 )
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https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2022.838.1925 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7094465 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1461EC42-FFBE-FF96-FE4D-07BF1439F836 |
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Felipe |
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Carebara arabica ( Collingwood & van Harten, 2001 ) |
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Carebara arabica ( Collingwood & van Harten, 2001)
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Oligomyrmex arabicus Collingwood & van Harten, 2001: 564 (s, w) Yemen. Afrotropic.
Diagnosis
Major worker
Uniform brown, antennae, and legs yellow; antennae 10-segmented with a 2-segmented club; posterior margin of head sharply concave and posterior corners with a pair of teeth, appearing blunt in profile; cephalic dorsum dull, with regular and dense and longitudinal rugulae; lateral margins of postpetiole in dorsal view rounded.
Minor worker
Uniform yellow; antennae 10-segmented; eyes tiny, with a single ommatidium; anterolateral sides of head finely longitudinally striated; lower halves of mesopleuron, metapleuron, petiole, and postpetiole areolate-rugose; propodeal dorsum nearly half as long as propodeal declivity in profile ( Fig. 29 View Fig ).
Material examined
OMAN – Dhofar • 1 w; Ayn Hamran ; 17.100° N, 54.284° E; alt. 106 m; 20 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA GoogleMaps • 2 w; Ayn Sahlanot ; 17.148° N, 54.179° E; alt. 151 m; 16 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA GoogleMaps • 1 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
Workers were collected foraging in dry soil under a tree of Prosopis . Several minor workers were observed foraging on the ground next to a tree of Ziziphus sp. where the soil was dry and rich in organic matter. In the Asir Mountains of KSA, C. arabica was found nesting in humid compact clay soil of banana plantations where minor workers were foraging above the soil surface.
Geographic range
Originally described from Yemen ( Collingwood & van Harten 2001), it has been also recorded from KSA ( Aldawood et al. 2011). The genus and species are new records for Oman.
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Carebara arabica ( Collingwood & van Harten, 2001 )
Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, Amr A. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S. 2022 |
Oligomyrmex arabicus
Collingwood C. A. & van Harten A. 2001: 564 |