Monomorium abeillei Andre 1881
Creators: name: Sharaf, Mostafa R.
name: Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S.
name: Mohamed, Amr A.
name: Fisher, Brian L.
name: Aldawood, Abdulrahman S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Monomorium
Monomorium abeillei

description: <i>Monomorium abeillei</i> André, 1881 (Fig. 16 A–C) <i>Monomorium abeillei</i> André, 1881b: 531 (footnote) (w.) Palestine. Palearctic. <b> <i>Diagnosis</i>. Worker.</b> Color evenly brown-black to black with pale funiculi, tarsi, and mandibles; anterior margin of clypeus slightly concave; eyes moderately large, with 9–10 ommatidia in the longest row; posterior margin when seen in full-face view weakly emarginate with rounded corners; mesosoma in profile with promesonotal dorsum meeting the flat propodeum at an oblique angle; propodeum with a characteristic, well-defined, longitudinal, V-shaped furrow bordered by a distinct raised edge at each side; petiole in profile is a high, rounded triangle; pronotum and petiole each have one pair of hairs, postpetiole with two pairs; few scattered hairs on first gastral tergite; head, pronotum, and nodes superficially reticulate; gaster shining with superficial sculpture. <b> <i>Material examined</i>.</b> Qatar, Al Dhakira Park, 07.iii, 2005, 25°43’N, 51°32’E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 8w; Al-Dohuil, 18-8.iii.2005, 25°22’N, 51°29’E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 3w; Al-Rayyan, 08.iii.2005, 25°18’N, 51°25’E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 4 w (KSMA). <b> <i>Geographic distribution</i>.</b> A Palearctic species originally described from Palestine and is known from Levant: Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Syria (Borowiec and Salata 2020); Arabian Peninsula: KSA, Kuwait, Oman, Yemen (Collingwood 1985, Collingwood and Agosti 1996), UAE (Tigar and Collingwood 1993; Collingwood <i>et al</i>. 2011); and east to Iran and Afghanistan. This species is recorded for the first time from Qatar. <b> <i>Ecological and biological notes</i>.</b> The habitat preference of <i>M. abeillei</i> includes sandy desert, coastal areas, and high ground in the Asir mountains above 2200 m.a.s.l. (Collingwood 1985).
description: Published as part of <i>Sharaf, Mostafa R., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Mohamed, Amr A., Fisher, Brian L. &amp; Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2020, A Preliminary Synopsis of the Ant Fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Qatar with Remarks on the Zoogeography, pp. 533-560 in Annales Zoologici 70 (4)</i> on page 547, DOI: 10.3161/00034541anz2020.70.4.005, http://zenodo.org/record/4433537
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