African Invertebrates (Jun 2017)

Review of the ant genus Nesomyrmex Wheeler, 1910 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from the Arabian Peninsula

  • Mostafa R. Sharaf,
  • Shahid Ali Akbar,
  • Abdulrahman S. Aldawood,
  • Francisco Hita Garcia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3897/AafrInvertebr.58.12782
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 58, no. 2
pp. 21 – 37

Abstract

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In this study, we review the Arabian species of the ant genus Nesomyrmex Wheeler. We provide species reviews for the two previously known species, N. angulatus (Mayr, 1862) and N. humerosus (Emery, 1896) and describe a new species N. zaheri sp. n. from Yemen based on the worker caste. An illustrated key to the Arabian species of the genus and montage photos of all three species are provided.