Taxonomy of the Myrmicine ant genus Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) in the Arabian Peninsula

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作者：
Sharaf, Mostafa R. [1 ]
Akbar, Shahid A. [2 ]
Al Dhafer, Hathal M. [1 ]
El-Gharbawy, Ali [1 ,3 ]
Aldawood, Abdulrahman S. [1 ]
机构：
[1] King Saud Univ, Coll Food & Agr Sci, Dept Plant Protect, POB 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
[2] Cent Inst Temperate Hort, Dept Entomol, Div Plant Protect, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India
[3] Al Azhar Univ, Fac Sci, Dept Zool, Cairo, Egypt
来源：
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF TAXONOMY | 2017年 / 280卷
关键词：
Ants; Temnothorax; revision; Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Afrotropical region; HYMENOPTERA-FORMICIDAE; SOCIAL PARASITISM; LEPTOTHORAX-MAYR; KEY;
D O I：
10.5852/ejt.2017.280
中图分类号：
Q94 [植物学];
学科分类号：
071001 ;
摘要：
The Arabian Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 fauna is revised for the first time. Three species are recognized from the region: Temnothorax arabicus Sharaf & Akbar sp. nov., T. liviae (Agosti & Collingwood, 2011) comb. nov. and T. megalops (Hamann & Klemm, 1967). Leptothorax saudiae Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 was placed in Temnothorax by Bolton (2003), but actually belongs to Tetramorium Mayr, 1855 and is herewithin recombined to Tetramorium saudiae (Collingwood & Agosti, 1996) comb. nov. Automontage images and comparative diagnoses of workers as well as notes on habitats and distribution of treated species are provided. A revised key to the Arabian species based on the worker caste is also presented.
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