Monomorium areniphilum Santschi, 1911

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 : 547-548

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https://doi.org/ 10.3161/00034541anz2020.70.4.005

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4433618

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scientific name

Monomorium areniphilum Santschi, 1911
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Monomorium areniphilum Santschi, 1911 View in CoL

( Fig. 17 View Figure 17 A–C)

Monomorium Salomonis var. areniphila Santschi, 1911: 84 View in CoL (w.) Tunisia. Palearctic.

Diagnosis. Worker. Uniform dark brown with paler tarsi; eyes with 12–14 ommatidia in longest row; mesosoma in profile with the promesonotal outline, with the posterior portion of the mesonotum sharply down curved and descending to impressed metanotal groove; dorsal of mesosoma without standing hairs; propodeal dorsum with a narrow, flattened, median, longitudinal strip.

Material examined. Qatar, Al-Dohuil , 15.iii.2005, 25°22’N, 51°29’E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 8w; GoogleMaps Rawdet Rashed , 12.iii.2005, 25°14.006’N, 51°12.286’E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 47w; GoogleMaps Doha. 08.iii.2005, 25°18‘N, 51°25‘E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 31w; GoogleMaps Al-Rayyan, 08.iii.2005, 25°18’N, 51°25’E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 26w, ( KSMA). GoogleMaps

Monomorium tumaire Collingwood & Agosti, 1996

( Fig. 19 View Figure 19 A–B)

Monomorium tumaire Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 356 , fig. 29 (w.) Saudi Arabia. Afrotropic.

Diagnosis. Worker. Color light brown or yellowbrown; metanotal groove shallowly impressed; propodeal furrow distinct; underside of head with numerous hairs, the longest exceeding the maximum eye length; posterior margin of head with two pairs of hairs; pronotum with one pair of hairs, petiole with one pair and postpetiole with two pairs of hairs; gaster with 12–16 suberect hairs on the first tergite; head and mesosoma shallowly reticulate-punctate.

Previous records. Qatar, Doha, 25°17’N, 51°30’E, 22.ix.2005, (M. Lush leg.) GoogleMaps .

Geographic distribution. Monomorium tumaire was originally described from KSA and is endemic to the Arabian Peninsula, where it is reported from KSA, Oman, UAE ( Tigar and Collingwood 1993, Collingwood and Agosti 1996, Collingwood et al. 2011), and Qatar ( Lush 2009).

Geographic distribution. The species is widely distributed throughout the Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa ( Bolton 1987, Sharaf 2006) and extending eastward to the Arabian Peninsula: KSA, Kuwait, Oman, UAE, and Yemen ( Collingwood 1985; Collingwood and Agosti 1996; Collingwood et al. 2011). This material represents the first record from.

KSMA

KSMA

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Monomorium

Loc

Monomorium areniphilum Santschi, 1911

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Mohamed, Amr A., Fisher, Brian L. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S. 2020
2020
Loc

Monomorium tumaire

Collingwood & Agosti 1996: 356
1996
Loc

Monomorium Salomonis var. areniphila

Santschi 1911: 84
1911
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