Paratrechina longicornis
Creators: name: Sharaf, Mostafa R.
name: Wetterer, James K.
name: Mohamed, Amr A.
name: Aldawood, Abdulrahman S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Paratrechina
Paratrechina longicornis

description: Paratrechina longicornis (Latreille, 1802)
Fig. 23
Formica longicornis Latreille, 1802: 113 (w) Senegal. Afrotropic.
Diagnosis
Head, mesosoma, petiole, and gaster black-brown to dark brown; body with faint bluish iridescence; scapes exceptionally long, when laid back from their insertions surpassing posterior margin of head by at least one-half its length; legs extraordinarily long; pilosity scattered, stout, long, suberect to erect, greyish or whitish setae.
Material examined
OMAN – Dhofar • 1 w; Agdaroot; 17.089° N, 54.442° E; 18 Nov. 2017; SW; A. Mostafa leg.; KSMA • 1 w; Serfeet Road, 26 km before Serfeet; 16.684° N, 53.139° E; 18 Nov. 2017; SW; A. Mostafa leg.; KSMA • 7 w, 2 q; Dhalkout; 16.707° N, 53.251° E; alt. 34 m; 19 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 3 w; Dhalkout Road, Aghbaroot Village; 16.798° N, 53.554° E; alt. 1034 m; 18 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 1 w; Ayn Sahlanot; 17.148° N, 54.179° E; alt. 151 m; 16 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 4 w; Ayn Dirbat; 17.106° N, 54.453° E; alt. 207 m; 17 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 1 w; Ayn Ashat; 16.998° N, 53.820° E; alt. 202 m; 21 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 3 w; Dhalkout; 16.705° N, 53.24453° E; alt. 43 m; 18 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 1 w, 1 m; Ayn Hamran; 17.100° N, 54.284° E; alt. 106 m; 20 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 2 w; Dhalkout; 16.727° N, 53.249° E; alt. 623 m; 18 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 5 w; Ayn Razat; 17.124° N, 54.238° E; alt. 98 m; 20 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 1 w; same collection data as for preceding; CASENT0922867; CASC • 3 w; Ayn Razat; 17.130° N, 54.236° E; alt. 121 m; 20 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 2 w; Dhalkout; 16.693° N, 53.156° E; alt. 628 m; 18 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA.
Ecological and biological notes
Paratrechina longicornis has diverse nesting and foraging habits (Sharaf et al. 2017c) that include soil under rocks, leaf litter which is rich in organic material, and disturbed sites near human settlements. The species was collected foraging near trees of Ziziphus Mill. and Vachellia.
Geographic range
Although originally described from Senegal, Wetterer (2008), who examined many global records, felt the origin of this tramp species was probably from Southeast Asia. It is widely distributed in the Arabian Peninsula including Oman (Sharaf et al. 2018a), KSA (Collingwood 1985), UAE (Collingwood et al. 1997, 2011), Yemen (Collingwood & Agosti 1996), and the Socotra Archipelago (Collingwood et al. 2004; Sharaf et al. 2017c). This species is reported here for the first time in Dhofar.
description: Published as part of Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, Amr A. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2022, Faunal composition, diversity, and distribution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Dhofar Governorate, Oman, with updated list of the Omani species and remarks on zoogeography, pp. 1-106 in European Journal of Taxonomy 838 (1) on pages 37-39, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.838.1925, http://zenodo.org/record/7094306