Monomorium areniphilum Santschi 1911
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
Monomorium
Monomorium areniphilum
Monomorium tumaire

description: <i>Monomorium areniphilum</i> Santschi, 1911 (Fig. 17 A–C) <i>Monomorium Salomonis</i> var. <i>areniphila</i> Santschi, 1911: 84 (w.) Tunisia. Palearctic. <b> <i>Diagnosis</i>. Worker.</b> Uniform dark brown with paler tarsi; eyes with 12–14 ommatidia in longest row; mesosoma in profile with the promesonotal outline, with the posterior portion of the mesonotum sharply down curved and descending to impressed metanotal groove; dorsal of mesosoma without standing hairs; propodeal dorsum with a narrow, flattened, median, longitudinal strip. <b> <i>Material examined</i>.</b> Qatar, Al-Dohuil, 15.iii.2005, 25°22’N, 51°29’E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 8w; Rawdet Rashed, 12.iii.2005, 25°14.006’N, 51°12.286’E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 47w; Doha. 08.iii.2005, 25°18‘N, 51°25‘E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 31w; Al-Rayyan, 08.iii.2005, 25°18’N, 51°25’E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 26w, (KSMA). <i>Monomorium tumaire</i> Collingwood &amp; Agosti, 1996 (Fig. 19 A–B) <i>Monomorium tumaire</i> Collingwood &amp; Agosti, 1996: 356, fig. 29 (w.) Saudi Arabia. Afrotropic. <b> <i>Diagnosis.</i> Worker.</b> Color light brown or yellowbrown; metanotal groove shallowly impressed; propodeal furrow distinct; underside of head with numerous hairs, the longest exceeding the maximum eye length; posterior margin of head with two pairs of hairs; pronotum with one pair of hairs, petiole with one pair and postpetiole with two pairs of hairs; gaster with 12–16 suberect hairs on the first tergite; head and mesosoma shallowly reticulate-punctate. <b> <i>Previous records</i>.</b> Qatar, Doha, 25°17’N, 51°30’E, 22.ix.2005, (M. Lush leg.). <b> <i>Geographic distribution</i>.</b> <i>Monomorium tumaire</i> was originally described from KSA and is endemic to the Arabian Peninsula, where it is reported from KSA, Oman, UAE (Tigar and Collingwood 1993, Collingwood and Agosti 1996, Collingwood <i>et al.</i> 2011), and Qatar (Lush 2009). <b> <i>Geographic distribution</i>.</b> The species is widely distributed throughout the Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa (Bolton 1987, Sharaf 2006) and extending eastward to the Arabian Peninsula: KSA, Kuwait, Oman, UAE, and Yemen (Collingwood 1985; Collingwood and Agosti 1996; Collingwood <i>et al</i>. 2011). This material represents the first record from. <i>Monomorium tumaire</i> Collingwood &amp; Agosti, 1996 (Fig. 19 A–B) <i>Monomorium tumaire</i> Collingwood &amp; Agosti, 1996: 356, fig. 29 (w.) Saudi Arabia. Afrotropic. <b> <i>Diagnosis.</i> Worker.</b> Color light brown or yellowbrown; metanotal groove shallowly impressed; propodeal furrow distinct; underside of head with numerous hairs, the longest exceeding the maximum eye length; posterior margin of head with two pairs of hairs; pronotum with one pair of hairs, petiole with one pair and postpetiole with two pairs of hairs; gaster with 12–16 suberect hairs on the first tergite; head and mesosoma shallowly reticulate-punctate. <b> <i>Previous records</i>.</b> Qatar, Doha, 25°17’N, 51°30’E, 22.ix.2005, (M. Lush leg.). <b> <i>Geographic distribution</i>.</b> <i>Monomorium tumaire</i> was originally described from KSA and is endemic to the Arabian Peninsula, where it is reported from KSA, Oman, UAE (Tigar and Collingwood 1993, Collingwood and Agosti 1996, Collingwood <i>et al.</i> 2011), and Qatar (Lush 2009).
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 547-548, DOI: 10.3161/00034541anz2020.70.4.005, http://zenodo.org/record/4433537
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