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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
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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

L. A. Al-Keridis, N. M. Gaber, A. S. Aldawood and M. R. Sharaf
AFRICAN ENTOMOLOGY, Vol.29(1), pp.233-237
01/03/2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4001/003.029.0233

Abstract

Entomology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology
We describe the queen caste of the Arabian endemic species Tapinoma wilsoni Sharaf & Aldawood, 2012 from the type locality (Dhi Ayn ArchaeologicalVillage) located in the south western mountains of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We present the first illustrated key to the Arabian Tapinoma Foerster, 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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