Description of the Queen of the Arabian Endemic Dolichoderine Species Tapinoma wilsoni Sharaf & Aldawood, 2012 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with the First Illustrated Key to Queens of the Arabian Tapinoma Foerster, 1850
| Autor: | Lamya Ahmed Al-Keridis, Abdulrahman S. Aldawood, Nevien M. Gaber, Mostafa R. Sharaf |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0106 biological sciences
Middle East biology 010607 zoology Zoology Hymenoptera biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Tapinoma 010602 entomology Insect Science Key (lock) Queen (butterfly) Taxonomy (biology) Type locality Endemism Agronomy and Crop Science Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics |
| Zdroj: | African Entomology. 29 |
| ISSN: | 1021-3589 |
| Popis: | We describe the queen caste of the Arabian endemic species Tapinoma wilsoni Sharaf & Aldawood, 2012 from the type locality (Dhi Ayn Archaeological Village) located in the southwestern mountains of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We present the first illustrated key to the Arabian TapinomaFoerster, 1850 based on the queen castes. Three species are recognised from the Arabian Peninsula,T. melanocephalum (Fabricius, 1793), T. simrothi Krausse, 1911 and T. wilsoni Sharaf & Aldawood, 2012. |
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