Anochetus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Arabian Peninsula, with Description of a New Species from Oman

Formicidae (Hymenoptera) from the Humid Chaco ecoregion: inventory of species, new records, and pictorial keys for subfamilies and genera identification

“…Mayr, 1863 and Atta Fabricius, 1804 include several species which are pest for a variety of crops (Nickele et al, 2012;Montoya-Lerma et al, 2012;Diaz Napal et al, 2015). In addition, species like Linepithema humile, Wasmannia auropunctata, Nylanderia fulva are recognized as household pest (Ness & Bronstein, 2004).The following seven taxa were recorded as endemic species for the Humid Chaco ecoregion: Acanthostichus longinodis Mackay, 2004, Camponotus fiebrigi Forel, 1906, Crematogaster thalia Forel, 1911, Eciton mexicanum argentinum Borgmeier, 1955, Mycetomoellerius fiebrigi (Santschi, 1916), Strumigenys insolita Bolton, 2000 and Strumigenys siagodens (Bolton, 2000). This contribution provides new groups of useful insects to characterize the biographical ecoregion of the Humid Chaco, which to date has no reported endemic ant species (Morrone, 2000;Arana et al, 2021).…”

Faunal composition, diversity, and distribution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Dhofar Governorate, Oman, with updated list of the Omani species and remarks on zoogeography

“…Collecting techniques involved vegetation beating, sweep nets, sifting soil and litter, light traps, Malaise traps, and direct hand collecting under tree bark, in decaying fruits, in rotten logs, and beneath rocks. Specimens were collected using an aspirator, preserved in 96% ethanol, mounted, and identified using the keys of Bolton (1980Bolton ( , 1987Bolton ( , 1994, Collingwood (1985), Collingwood & Agosti (1996), Collingwood et al (2004), , and Sharaf et al (2014Sharaf et al ( , 2016aSharaf et al ( , 2016bSharaf et al ( , 2017aSharaf et al ( , 2017bSharaf et al ( , 2018aSharaf et al ( , 2018bSharaf et al ( , 2020aSharaf et al ( , 2021. Specimens were also compared with images of types and other specimens and are available on www.AntWeb.org.…”

“…Patterns of ant diversity on the Arabian Peninsula, however, are well-documented only for parts of Saudi Arabia (Collingwood & Agosti 1996;Sharaf et al 2018aSharaf et al , 2020aSharaf et al , 2021. For most other neighboring countries, records of ant taxa have been published primarily in a small-scale faunal studies and new species descriptions (e.g., Sharaf et al 2016aSharaf et al , 2016bSharaf et al , 2017aSharaf et al , 2017bSharaf et al , 2017cSharaf et al , 2018a. In the present study, we surveyed ants of Dhofar, the largest governorate of the Sultanate of Oman (Fig.…”

Additions to the Ant Fauna of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), With an Updated List of the Saudi Species

“…Numerous papers have been published between 2009 and 2022 by M. Sharaf and A. Aldawood, shedding light on the ant fauna of the country. These papers included revisionary works, descriptions of new species and species records for the following genera: Aenictus Shuckard, 1840 (Sharaf et al 2012a), Anochetus Mayr, 1861 (Sharaf et al 2017a), Brachymyrmex Mayr, 1868 (Sharaf et al 2016a), Carebara Westwood, 1840 (Aldawood et al 2011, Sharaf & Aldawood 2013a), Cataglyphis Foerster, 1850 (Sharaf et al 2015a), Crematogaster Lund, 1831 (Sharaf et al 2019a), Leptogenys Roger, 1861 (Sharaf et al 2017b), Meranoplus Smith, 1853 (Sharaf et al 2014a, Sharaf & Aldawood 2017, 2019a), Monomorium Mayr, 1855 (Aldawood & Sharaf 2011, Sharaf et al 2015b, 2018a, 2021), Nesomyrmex Wheeler, 1910 (Sharaf et al 2017c), Parasyscia Emery, 1882 (Sharaf et al 2018b), Plagiolepis Mayr, 1861 (Sharaf et al 2011), Solenopsis Westwood, 1840 (Sharaf & Aldawood 2011, 2012, Sharaf et al 2015c), Strumigenys Smith, 1860 (Sharaf et al 2014b, 2015d), Syllophopsis Santschi, 1915 (Sharaf & Aldawood 2013b), Tapinoma Foerster, 1850 (Sharaf et al 2012b, Al-Keridis et al 2021, Abdel-Dayem et al 2021, Sharaf & Aldawood 2022), Technomyrmex Mayr, 1872 (Sharaf et al 2018c), Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 (Sharaf & Aldawood 2019b, Sharaf et al 2019b), Tetramorium Mayr, 1855 (Aldawood & Sharaf 2009, Sharaf et al 2012c, 2013), and Trichomyrmex Mayr, 1865 (Sharaf et al 2016b).…”