Tapinoma wilsoni Sharaf & Aldawood, 2012

Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud M, Al Dhafer, Hathal Mohammed, Aldawood, Abdulrahman S & Sharaf, Mostafa R, 2021, An update to the taxonomy and distribution of the Arabian Tapinoma Foerster, 1850 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with an illustrated key and remarks on habitats, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 66058-66058 : 66058

Tapinoma wilsoni Sharaf & Aldawood, 2012

Tapinoma wilsoni Sharaf & Aldawood, 2012c: 38, figs. 1-3 (w.) Saudi Arabia. Afrotropic.

Tapinoma wilsoni Sharaf & Aldawood, 2012c: 38, figs. 1-3 (w.) Saudi Arabia. Afrotropic.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: M.R. Sharaf; individualCount: 1; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma wilsoni; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Dhi Ayn Archaeological Village ; verbatimElevation: 741 m; decimalLatitude: 19.9297; decimalLongitude: 41.4427; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2012; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2011-05-15; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: M.R. Sharaf; individualCount: 29; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma wilsoni; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Dhi Ayn Archaeological Village ; verbatimElevation: 741 m; decimalLatitude: 19.9297; decimalLongitude: 41.4427; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2012; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2011-05-15; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: A. Polaszek; individualCount: 3; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma wilsoni; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Dhi Ayn Archaeological Village ; verbatimElevation: 741 m; decimalLatitude: 19.9297; decimalLongitude: 41.4427; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: Yellow pan trap; eventDate: 2015-04-11; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: F.S. Esteves; individualCount: 1; sex: queen; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma wilsoni; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Dhi Ayn Archaeological Village ; verbatimElevation: 735 m; decimalLatitude: 19.9297; decimalLongitude: 41.4427; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2012; Event: samplingProtocol: none specified; eventDate: 2011-09-23; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: CASC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: M.R. Sharaf; individualCount: 4; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma wilsoni; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Dhi Ayn Archaeological Village ; verbatimElevation: 728 m; decimalLatitude: 19.9297; decimalLongitude: 41.4427; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2016-04-11; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Diagnosis

Worker. Head in full-face view longer than broad with shallowly convex posterior margin and sides; anterior clypeal margin broadly and distinctly concave; scapes, in full-face view, surpass posterior margin of head by about 1/6 of its length; all funicular segments distinctly longer than broad (Fig. 4 c); metanotal groove indistinct; propodeum in profile with the transition from dorsum to declivity sharply defined, the declivity concave and the angle with a raised apex (Fig. 4 a); colour yellow to brown-yellow, antennae and legs uniform yellow (Fig. 4 a, b).

Previous records

SA: Al Bahah, Dhi Ayn Archaeological Village, 19.9297°N, 41.4427°E, 741 m alt. ( Sharaf et al. 2012)

Distribution

Saudi Arabia.

Ecology

Tapinoma wilsoni was found foraging on the ground surface of a Banana farm in Dhi Ayn Archeological Village, a semi-isolated area that is completely surrounded by high mountains of the Al Sarawat Mountains (KSA) and the soil is clay and humid ( Sharaf et al. 2012). Nothing is known about the biology of the species. The species is co-existing with the ant species Carebara arabica (Collingwood & van Harten, 2011), Tetramorium sericeiventre Emery, 1877, Pheidole minuscula Bernard, 1953, Trichomyrmex destructor (Jerdon, 1851) and Monomorium exiguum Forel, 1894.