Pheidole sinaitica Mayr, 1862
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https://doi.org/ 10.3161/00034541anz2020.70.4.005 |
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Pheidole sinaitica Mayr, 1862 View in CoL
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Pheidole sinaitica Mayr, 1862: 745 View in CoL (s.w.) Egypt. Palearctic.
Diagnosis. Major worker. Color uniform brown to light brown; posterior margin of head deeply emarginated in full-face view; second funicular segment slightly longer than broad; metanotal groove welldeveloped and broad; propodeal spines short and acute; cephalic surfaces longitudinally rugulose running posteriorly to two-thirds of head length; posterior corners of head without striae; body surfaces with abundant long hairs.
Material examined. Qatar, Al-Dohuil (Doha), 8-18.iii.2005; 25°22’N, 51°29’E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 4w, ( KSMA) GoogleMaps .
Geographic distribution. This species was described from Egypt and is known from East Africa: Eritrea, Kenya, Sudan; Morocco; Levant: Egypt, Israel, Iraq ( Sharaf 2006, Vonshak and Ionescu 2009); the Arabian Peninsula: KSA, Oman, UAE, Yemen ( Collingwood 1985, Collingwood and Agosti 1996, Collingwood et al. 2011); and Iran ( Paknia et al. 2008). This material represents a new record for Qatar.
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Pheidole sinaitica Mayr, 1862
Sharaf, Mostafa R., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Mohamed, Amr A., Fisher, Brian L. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S. 2020 |
Pheidole sinaitica
Mayr 1862: 745 |