Abstract
The myrmicine ant genus
Carebara
is recorded for the first time in Saudi Arabia from the Arabian Peninsula as a whole. A new species
Carebara abuhurayri
sp. n.
is described based on workers collected from Al Bahah region. One of the smallest ant species known to occur in Arabia,
Carebara abuhurayri
is found in an area inhabited by many ant species including
Tetramorium sericeiventre
Emery, 1877,
Pheidole minuscula
Bernard, 1952,
Pheidole
sp.,
Monomorium destructor
(Jerdon, 1851),
Monomorium exiguum
(Forel, 1894) and
Monomorium
sp. and
Crematogaster
sp.