Crematogaster antaris Forel, 1894

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Mohamed, Amr A., Fisher, Brian L. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2020, A Preliminary Synopsis of the Ant Fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Qatar with Remarks on the Zoogeography, Annales Zoologici 70 (4), pp. 533-560 : 546

Crematogaster antaris Forel, 1894

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Crematogaster (Acrocoelia) auberti r. antaris Forel, 1894: 26 (w. q.) Algeria. Palearctic.

Diagnosis. Worker. Uniform brown species with posterior third of gaster dark brown; mesonotum in profile with a small tubercle close to promesonotal suture; petiole in dorsal view with concave anterior margin; petiole in dorsal view with rounded anterior corners; anterior half of cephalic surface or at least area in front of eyes and clypeus longitudinally striated; promesonotum and mesonotum dorsum unsculptured; promesonotum without hairs; hairs on first gastral tergites rare and restricted to a few pairs on posterior margin of the tergite.

Material examined. Qatar, Msaid Road , 09.iv.2005, 24 ° 59 ’ N, 51 ° 33 ’ E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 10w; Al Kharara-Seleiyn Road , 09.iv.2005, 24 ° 53 ’ N, 51 ° 10 ’ E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 13 w, ( KSMA) .

Geographic distribution. This is a Palearctic species originally described from Algeria and is distributed eastwardly across Egypt ( Sharaf 2006), Israel (Vonshak and Ionescu 2009), the Arabian Peninsula: UAE ( Tigar and Collingwood 1993), Kuwait, UAE, Oman and Yemen ( Collingwood 1985, Collingwood and Agosti 1996, Collingwood and van Harten 2001), Qatar ( Sharaf et al. 2019), to Iran ( Paknia et al. 2008).

Figures

Figure 15. Crematogaster antaris, syntype worker, A, body in profile B, body in dorsal view C, head in full-face view, CASENT0903658 (Will Ericson), www.AntWeb.org.