Hypoponera ragusai
| Autor: | Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, Amr A., Aldawood, Abdulrahman S. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.7094525 |
| Popis: | Hypoponera ragusai (Emery, 1894) Fig. 54 Ponera ragusai Emery, 1894: 28 (w) Italy (Sicily). Palearctic. Diagnosis Color yellow to light brown-yellow; scapes in full-face view fail to reach posterior margin of head; eyes minute of 1–3 facets, situated near to posterior margin of clypeus; petiole thick, 1.5 times as broad as long; subpetiolar process subtriangular. Material examined OMAN – Dhofar • 15 w, 1 m; Dhalkout; 16.707° N, 53.251° E; alt. 34 m; 19 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 1 w; same collection data as for preceding; CASENT0922863; CASC • 6 w; Ayn Hamran; 17.086° N, 54.280° E; alt. 56 m; 22 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 1 w; Ayn Razat; 17.124° N, 54.238° E; alt. 98 m; 20 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 1 w; Dhalkout; 16.693° N, 53.156° E; alt. 628 m; 18 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA. Ecological and biological notes Workers were collected in a shaded area with dense native grasses and shrubs, whereas several specimens were found nesting in moist soil under stones. A nest series was found also in leaf litter under a tree of Ziziphus sp. Geographic range Although originally described from Italy, H. ragusai has spread worldwide into all zoogeographical regions (Bolton & Fisher 2011; Bharti et al. 2015). In the Arabian Peninsula, H. ragusai has been collected from KSA (Collingwood 1985), and UAE (Collingwood et al. 2011). The above specimens represent the first species record for Oman. Published as part of Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, Amr A. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2022, Faunal composition, diversity, and distribution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Dhofar Governorate, Oman, with updated list of the Omani species and remarks on zoogeography, pp. 1-106 in European Journal of Taxonomy 838 (1) on pages 86-89, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.838.1925, http://zenodo.org/record/7094306 {"references":["Emery C. 1894. Descrizione di una nuova Formica di Sicilia. Il Naturalista Siciliano 14: 28.","Mayr G. 1862. Myrmecologische Studien. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koniglichen ZoologischBotanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12: 649 - 776. https: // doi. org / 10.5281 / zenodo. 25912","Bolton B. & Fisher B. L. 2011. Taxonomy of Afrotropical and West Palaearctic ants of the ponerine genus Hypoponera Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2843: 1 - 118. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2843.1.1","Bharti H., Akbar S. A., Wachkoo A. A. & Singh J. 2015. Taxonomic studies on ant genus Hypoponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) from India. Asian Myrmecology 7: 37 - 51. https: // doi. org / 10.20362 / am. 007005","Collingwood C. A. 1985. Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 7: 230 - 302.","Collingwood C. A., Agosti D., Sharaf M. R. & van Harten A. 2011. Order Hymenoptera, family Formicidae. Arthropod Fauna of the UAE 4: 405 - 474."]} |
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