@article {15, title = {Taxonomy of the Myrmicine ant genus Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) in the Arabian Peninsula}, journal = {European Journal of Taxonomy}, volume = {280}, year = {2017}, pages = {1-17}, abstract = {

The Arabian Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 fauna is revised for the\  rst time. Three species are recognized from the region: Temnothorax arabicus Sharaf \& Akbar sp. nov., T. liviae (Agosti \& Collingwood, 2011) comb. nov. and T. megalops (Hamann \& Klemm, 1967). Leptothorax saudiae Collingwood \& Agosti, 1996 was placed in Temnothorax by Bolton (2003), but actually belongs to Tetramorium Mayr, 1855 and is herewithin recombined to Tetramorium saudiae (Collingwood \& Agosti, 1996) comb. nov. Automontage images and comparative diagnoses of workers as well as notes on habitats and distribution of treated species are provided. A revised key to the Arabian species based on the worker caste is also presented.

}, keywords = {Afrotropical region., ants, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Revision, Temnothorax}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.280}, url = {https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/403}, author = {Mostafa R. Sharaf and Shahid A. Akbar and Hathal M. Al Dhafer and Ali El-Gharbawy and Abdulrahman S. Aldawood} }