Crematogaster antaris Forel 1894
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
Crematogaster
Crematogaster antaris

description: <i>Crematogaster antaris</i> Forel, 1894 (Fig. 15 A–C) <i>Crematogaster</i> (<i>Acrocoelia</i>) <i>auberti</i> r. <i>antaris</i> Forel, 1894: 26 (w. q.) Algeria. Palearctic. <b> <i>Diagnosis</i>. Worker.</b> Uniform brown species with posterior third of gaster dark brown; mesonotum in profile with a small tubercle close to promesonotal suture; petiole in dorsal view with concave anterior margin; petiole in dorsal view with rounded anterior corners; anterior half of cephalic surface or at least area in front of eyes and clypeus longitudinally striated; promesonotum and mesonotum dorsum unsculptured; promesonotum without hairs; hairs on first gastral tergites rare and restricted to a few pairs on posterior margin of the tergite. <b> <i>Material examined</i>.</b> Qatar, Msaid Road, 09.iv.2005, 24 <b>°</b> 59 <b>’</b> N, 51 <b>°</b> 33 <b>’</b> E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 10w; Al Kharara-Seleiyn Road, 09.iv.2005, 24 <b>°</b> 53 <b>’</b> N, 51 <b>°</b> 10 <b>’</b> E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 13 w, (KSMA). <b> <i>Geographic distribution</i>.</b> This is a Palearctic species originally described from Algeria and is distributed eastwardly across Egypt (Sharaf 2006), Israel (Vonshak and Ionescu 2009), the Arabian Peninsula: UAE (Tigar and Collingwood 1993), Kuwait, UAE, Oman and Yemen (Collingwood 1985, Collingwood and Agosti 1996, Collingwood and van Harten 2001), Qatar (Sharaf <i>et al.</i> 2019), to Iran (Paknia <i>et al.</i> 2008).
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 546, DOI: 10.3161/00034541anz2020.70.4.005, http://zenodo.org/record/4433537
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