Cardiocondyla emeryi Forel 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
Cardiocondyla
Cardiocondyla emeryi

description: <i>Cardiocondyla emeryi</i> Forel, 1881 (Fig. 14 A–C) <i>Cardiocondyla emeryi</i> Forel, 1881: 5 (w.) Virgin Is. Neotropic. <b> <i>Diagnosis</i>. Worker.</b> Bicolored species with head and mesosoma yellow to brown, or orange-brown; terminal funicular segments always darker than rest of antennae; gaster black-brown to black, strongly contrasting head and mesosoma; antennal scapes of moderate length, when laid back from their insertions fail to reach posterior margin of head; eyes of moderate size with 8–10 ommatidia in longest row; pronotal corners rounded in dorsal view; metanotal groove sharply impressed; propodeal spines relatively short and stout; postpetiole in profile with a ventral bulge projecting anteriorly. <b> <i>Material examined</i>.</b> Qatar, Al-Rayyan, 08.iii. 2005, 25°18’N, 51°25’E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 3w (KSMA). <b> <i>Geographic distribution</i>.</b> A successful cosmopolitan tramp species (Bolton 1987, Wetterer 2012). The species was originally described from the Virgin Islands, and reported from most countries of the Arabian Peninsula, including Oman, Yemen (Collingwood and Agosti 1996), KSA (Collingwood 1985), UAE (Collingwood <i>et al.</i> 1997), and the Socotra Archipelago (Collingwood <i>et al.</i> 2004, Sharaf <i>et al.</i> 2017). Our material represents the first record from Qatar. <b> <i>Ecological and biological notes</i>.</b> This species has a broad global distribution facilitated by human trade (Seifert 2003, Wetterer 2012), and it is commonly encountered in heated buildings and greenhouses of the Afrotropical region (Bolton 1987).
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 pages 545-546, DOI: 10.3161/00034541anz2020.70.4.005, http://zenodo.org/record/4433537
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