@article {16, title = {The ant genus Carebara Westwood in the Arabian Peninsula (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {357}, year = {2013}, month = {02/12/2013}, pages = {67{\textendash}83}, abstract = {

\ the ant genus Carebara of the Arabian Peninsula is revised. Carebara abuhurayri Sharaf \& Aldawood, 2011 is synonymized under Carebara arabica Collingwood \& van Harten, 2001. Carebara arabica is redescribed and a Neotype is\  xed based on a specimen collected from southwestern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A new species, C. fayrouzae sp. n. is described from Saudi Arabia based on queens, major and minor workers. Keys to major and minor workers of the two Arabian Carebara species are given.

}, keywords = {key, Myrmicinae, new species, Palearctic region, Saudi Arabia, taxonomy}, doi = {10.3897/zookeys.357.5946}, author = {Mostafa R. Sharaf and Abdulrahman S. Aldawood} }