Lepisiota gracilicornis
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 gracilicornis

description: <i>Lepisiota gracilicornis</i> (Forel, 1892) (Fig. 12 A–C) <i>Acantholepis gracilicornis</i> Forel, 1892: 42 (diagnosis in key) (w.) Yemen. Afrotropic. <b> <i>Diagnosis.</i> Worker.</b> This species is easily diagnosed from other members of the Arabian <i>Lepisiota</i> by the distinctly long antennae (SI 175–195) and legs, the smooth and shining body surfaces, and the bare mesosoma. <b> <i>Material examined</i>.</b> Qatar, Doha, 08.iii.2005, 25°18’N, 51°25’E, (M.S. Abdel–Dayem leg.), 31w; Doha, 02.iv.2005, 25°18’N, 51°25’E, 6 w, 3 q, 6 m, (KSMA). <b> <i>Geographic distribution</i>.</b> Afrotropical species known from west and east Africa: Senegal, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia; Levant: Egypt, Israel, Jordan (Sharaf 2006, Ionescu and Eyer 2016, Borowiec and Salata 2020); and the Arabian Peninsula: KSA (Collingwood 1985), UAE (Collingwood <i>et al</i>. 2011), Oman (Collingwood and Agosti 1996, Sharaf <i>et al</i>. 2018), Yemen (Sharaf <i>et al</i>. 2020 a). This species is 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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