Strumigenys membranifera Emery 1869
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
Strumigenys
Strumigenys membranifera

description: <i>Strumigenys membranifera</i> Emery, 1869 (Fig. 23 A–C) <i>Strumigenys</i> (<i>Trichoscapa</i>) <i>membranifera</i> Emery, 1869: 24, fig. 11 (w.) Italy. Palearctic. <b> <i>Diagnosis</i>. Worker.</b> Dull yellow to yellow-brown; masticatory margin of mandibles armed with 12 teeth; anterior clypeal margin broadly and weakly convex; eyes minute, with few ommatidia, located at ventral margin of antennal scrobes; metanotal groove absent; spongiform appendages of petiole and postpetiole massively developed; cephalic surfaces reticulate-punctate; sides of mesosoma smooth; propodeal dorsum and declivity smooth; cephalic pilosity restricted to one pair of hairs situated at highest point of vertex; cephalic dorsum with sparse, minute, appressed pubescence; lateral margins of head, clypeus with its anterior and lateral margins, and humeral pronotal angles all without projecting hairs; dorsal surfaces of petiole, postpetiole, and gaster bare. <b> <i>Material examined</i>.</b> Qatar, Rawdat Al Faras, Qatar University Farm for Training and Research, 25°48’N, 51°20.4’E, 21.v.2015 (M. R. Sharaf leg.), 1w; Saudi Arabia, Qassim, Buraydah, 26.36°N, 44.03°E, 653 m a.s.l., 19.x.2013 (S. Salman leg.), (2 workers CASENT0914337, CASENT0914338). <b> <i>Geographic distribution</i>.</b> A successful, broadly spread, pantropical tramp species originally described from Italy, introduced into most zoogeographical regions worldwide by human commerce (Bolton 1983, Bolton 2000, Wetterer 2011). In the Arabian Peninsula, the species is known from KSA, UAE (Sharaf <i>et al</i>. 2014), and Qatar (Sharaf <i>et al</i>. 2015). <b> <i>Ecological and biological notes</i>.</b> <i>Strumigenys membranifera</i> seems to prefer habitats with some degree of ecological disturbance (Wetterer 2011, Tang <i>et al.</i> 2019) where nests are built in the dry or semidry soil of lawn and pastures (Wilson and Hunt 1967, Deyrup 1997, OrdÓÑez-Urbano <i>et al.</i> 2008) and in the soil of date palm plantations (Sharaf <i>et al.</i> 2015).
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 550-551, DOI: 10.3161/00034541anz2020.70.4.005, http://zenodo.org/record/4433537
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