Miscellaneous Ants

Miscellaneous Ants
from Europe, North Africa, The Middle East, Iran and The Maldives

Notes

Species are shown on linked pages. These are in one of three formats - A = main "Ants of (sub-Saharan) Africa" page; E = "Ants of Egypt" website page; M = Miscellaneous ants pages.

General files

Separation of the former single genus Leptothorax

An attempt to analyze the Lepisiota frauenfeldi complex

Analysis of the confusion surrounding Camponotus compressus (Fabricius).

List of species from Egypt - omitting those found in sub-Saharan Africa

Specimens collected by Mostafa Sharaf and Mike James; also from Egypt/Israel courtesy of Joshua Kugler & Armin Ionescu (Tel Aviv University).

The links are to pages on the website http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg/ants/ants_of_egypt_2007/cover.htm

DOLICHODERINAE
Tapinoma erraticum (Latreille)
Tapinoma simrothi Krausse
FORMICINAE
Camponotus (Myrmosericus) cruentatus (Latreille)
Camponotus (Myrmosericus) micans (Nylander)
Camponotus (Myrmotrema) rhamses Santschi
Camponotus (Tanemyrmex) aegyptiacus Emery
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) cognatocompressus (Forel)
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) fellah (Emery) - specimens from Israel
Cataglyphis adenensis (Forel) - specimens from Kuwait
Cataglyphis agostii Sharaf (in preparation)
Cataglyphis bombycinus Roger - specimens also from Israel
Cataglyphis desertorum (Forel) - specimens from Tunisia (T Lackner)
Cataglyphis ruber (Forel) - also specimens from Kuwait
Cataglyphis franchettii (Menozzi) new status
Cataglyphis lividus (André)
Cataglyphis holgerseni Collingwood & Agosti
Cataglyphis niger (André)
Cataglyphis savignyi (Dufour)
Cataglyphis viaticus (Fabricius) - also specimens from Morocco (courtesy of A Lenoir)
Lepisiota aegyptiaca (Finzi) new status
Lepisiota syriaca (André) - specimens from Israel
Paratrechina jaegerskioeldi (Mayr)
Paratrechina vividula (Nylander)
Plagiolepis ancyrensis (Santschi)
Plagiolepis maura Santschi
Plagiolepis pallescens (Forel)
Plagiolepis ??schmitzii
Plagiolepis pygmaea (Latreille)
Polyrhachis lacteipennis F Smith variant - specimens from Israel
MYRMICINAE
Aphaenogaster splendida (Roger)
Cardiocondyla emeryi Forel
Cardiocondyla israelica Seifert
Cardiocondyla mauritanica (Forel)
Cardiocondyla obscurior (Wheeler)
Cardiocondyla sahlbergi (Forel) - Sharaf photo
Cardiocondyla ulianini Emery - specimens from Iran
Crematogaster auberti Emery - Sharaf photo
Crematogaster antaris (Forel)
Crematogaster inermis Mayr
Crematogaster laestrygon Emery - specimens from Israel
Messor aegyptiacus (Emery) - Sharaf photo
Messor arenarius (Fabricius) - Sharaf photo
Messor ebeninus (Forel) - specimens from Egypt & Israel
Messor foreli (Santschi) - Sharaf photo
Messor medioruber (Forel) - Sharaf photo
Messor niloticus Santschi - Sharaf photo
Messor rugosus (André) - specimens from Kuwait and a Sharaf photo
Monomorium abeillei André
Monomorium atomum Forel
Monomorium bodenheimeri Menozzi
Monomorium clavicorne André - Sharaf photo
Monomorium dentatum Sharaf
Monomorium new sp. in barbatulum-group
Monomorium nitidiventre Emery - specimen from Iran
Monomorium phoenicium (Emery)
Monomorium pullulum (Santschi) new status
Monomorium venustum (F Smith) - Sharaf photo
Pheidole fadli Sharaf
Pheidole fervens F Smith
Pheidole orientalis Emery
Pheidole pallidula (Nylander)
Pheidole providens Sykes
Pheidole sinaitica Mayr
Pheidole tristis Forel
Solenopsis cooperi Donisthorpe - first examples of workers
Tetramorium depressiceps (Menozzi) - Sharaf photos
Tetramorium lanuginosum Mayr
Tetramorium sahlbergi (Forel) - Sharaf photos
Tetramorium salwae Mohamed et al - Sharaf photos
Tetramorium schmidti (Forel)
Tetramorium semilaeve (André)
PONERINAE
Hypoponera ragusai (Emery) - specimens from Israel
Pachycondyla (Brachyponera) sennaarensis (Mayr) - specimens from Sudan and Iran
PSEUDOMYRMECINAE
Tetraponera erythraea (Emery) - Sharaf photos

Species from other than sub-Saharan Africa or Egypt

Species from Iran collected by Omid Paknia unless other colleagues named.

Tapinoma erraticum (Latreille) - ZMGU 1406 - Miankaleh, xi.2004; and, ZMGU 1417 - Miankaleh, viii.2004
Camponotus (Myrmosericus) cruentatus (Latreille) - ZMGU 113 - Golestan Province, Gonad-e-Kavoos, collector Aina Ebadati, iv.2004
Camponotus (Myrmosericus) micans (Nylander) - ZMGU 1301 - Kerman, v.2004
Cataglyphis aenescens (Nylander) - ZMGU 1419 - Miankaleh, viii.2004
Lasius himalayanus Bingham - ZMGU 123 - Golestan Province, Gorgan City, iv.2004; also ZMGU 470 - Bojnurd
Lasius neglectus Van Loon et al OR Lasius turcicus (Santschi) - ZMGU 557, Miankaleh
Cardiocondyla ulianini Emery - ZMGU 1418 - Miankaleh, viii.2004
Crematogaster (Cr.) afghanica ? Pisarski - ZMGU 053 - Fars Province, Lars City, ii.2002
Crematogaster (Cr.) subdentata Mayr - ZMGU 527 - Miankaleh
Messor concolor (Emery) - ZMGU 558 - Miankaleh
Monomorium nitidiventre Emery - ZMGU 074 - Fars Province
Pheidole providens (Sykes) - ZMGU 1353 - Gonbad, viii.2004
Pheidole (Ceratopheidole) smythiesii Forel - minors only - ZMGU 612 - Mazandarum
Temnothorax species - ZMGU 635 - Amole, 2006
Temnothorax ? pallidus Collingwood or L. arpini/satunini Tarbinski ?? - ZMGU 1413 - Miankaleh, xi.2004
Tetramorium caespitum (Linnaeus) - ZMGU 1354 - Gonbad, viii.2004
Pachycondyla (Brachyponera) sennaarensis (Mayr)- ZMGU 001 - Fars Province, Lars City, xi.2001; & ZMGU 128 (queens) - Bandar-e-Kangan City, Bushehr Province, ii.2003

Species from Israel provided by the University of Tel Aviv, Prof. Joshua Kugler & Armin Ionescu.

Dorylus (Dorylus) affinis Shuckard
Dorylus (Typhlopone) fulvus (Westwood) juvenculus Shuckard -
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) fellah (Emery)
Cataglyphis bombycinus Roger
Lepisiota syriaca (André)
Polyrhachis lacteipennis F Smith variant
Messor ebeninus (Forel)
Messor meridionalis (André)
Messor nahali Thomé & Thomé
Hypoponera ragusai (Emery)

Miscellaneous records.

Monomorium latinode Mayr - Bangladesh collector Brian Taylor
Messor wasmanni (Krausse) - Italy collector David King
Cataglyphis adenensis (Forel) - Kuwait collector David King
Cataglyphis ruber (Forel) - Kuwait collector David King
Messor rugosus (André) - Kuwait collector David King
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) alii Forel - Morocco collector Peter Hlavác
Cataglyphis viaticus (Fabricius) - Morocco collector Alain Lenoir
Pheidole fervens F Smith - Spain collector Xavier Espadaler, several locations; plus Canary Islands (David King)
Pheidole tristis Forel - Spain collector Xavier Espadaler
Plagiolepis schmitzii (Forel) - Spain, Canary Islands, collector David King
Plagiolepis schmitzii (Forel) - Spain collector Xavier Espadaler
Plagiolepis pygmaea (Latreille) - Spain collector Xavier Espadaler
Dorylus (Typhlopone) fulvus (Westwood) oraniensis Lucas - Tunisia, collector T Lackner
Cataglyphis desertorum (Forel) - Tunisia collector T Lackner
Cataglyphis bicolor (Forel) - Tunisia collector S. Aron
Pheidole arenarum Ruzsky - Turkey collector David King
Cataglyphis nodus (Forel) - Turkey collector David King
Lasius flavus (Fabricius) - United Kingdom collector Brian Taylor
Lasius niger (Linnaeus) - United Kingdom collector Brian Taylor
Linepithema humile (Mayr) - Portugal collector Markus Eichhorn
Plagiolepis pygmaea (Latreille) - Portugal collector Markus Eichhorn

Species from the Maldives, North Malé, Ihuru Atoll, collected by Marco Aita

Note: This may well be the first record of three of the species from The Maldives. Wetterer (2008a) has a previously unpublished record of Paratrechina longicornis from Hulhule Island. His comprehensive study (Wetterer, 2008b) of Tapinoma megacephalum global records does not have any report. The record of Camponotus compressus is unsurprising as it is well recorded from all over the Indian sub-continent. The Tapinoma fragile record is of great interest as apparently only the second record from anywhere and the type location is the quite isolated Rodrigues Island, some 2800 km away across the Indian Ocean.

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