Lepisiota bipartita
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
Lepisiota
Lepisiota bipartita

description: <i>Lepisiota bipartita</i> (Smith, 1861) (Fig. 11 A–C) <i>Formica bipartita</i> Smith, 1861 a: 33 (w.) Lebanon. Palearctic. <b> <i>Diagnosis.</i> Worker.</b> Bicolored species with head, mesosoma, petiole, and appendages red, gaster dark brown to black; antennal scape relatively short (SI &lt;200); petiole narrower, less than 0.30 × HW; body sculpture coarse, general appearance opaque; gaster always with some projecting hairs; body pilosity rare except for a few long setae on anterior clypeal margin, and promesonotum, and sparse appressed pubescence on cephalic dorsum. <b> <i>Material examined</i>.</b> Qatar, Rawdet Rashed, 12.iii.2005, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 25°14.006’N, 51°12.286’E, 12w; Al-Rayyan, 25°18’N, 51°25’E, 15.iii. 2005, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 4 w; Al-Dohuil, 15.iii.2005, 25°22’N, 51°29’E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 11w; Al-Dohuil, 8-18.iii.2005; 25°22’N, 51°29’E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 82w (KSMA). <b> <i>Geographic distribution</i>.</b> The species is distributed across the Palearctic region from Algeria to Levant: Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria (Sharaf 2006, Vonshak and Ionescu 2009, Borowiec and Salata 2020); the Arabian Peninsula: KSA, UAE (Collingwood and Agosti 1996, Sharaf <i>et al</i>. 2020); and Iran (Paknia <i>et al</i>. 2008, Pashaei Rad <i>et al</i>. 2018). Its distributional range reaches the Central Asia: Turkmenistan; and Oriental region: India.The studied material represents a new record for Qatar.
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 543, DOI: 10.3161/00034541anz2020.70.4.005, http://zenodo.org/record/4433537
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