Crematogaster antaris Forel, 1894

(Fig. 15 A–C)

Crematogaster (Acrocoelia) auberti r. antaris Forel, 1894: 26 (w. q.) Algeria. Palearctic.

Diagnosis. Worker. Uniform brown species with posterior third of gaster dark brown; mesonotum in profile with a small tubercle close to promesonotal suture; petiole in dorsal view with concave anterior margin; petiole in dorsal view with rounded anterior corners; anterior half of cephalic surface or at least area in front of eyes and clypeus longitudinally striated; promesonotum and mesonotum dorsum unsculptured; promesonotum without hairs; hairs on first gastral tergites rare and restricted to a few pairs on posterior margin of the tergite.

Material examined. Qatar, Msaid Road, 09.iv.2005, 24 ° 59 ’ N, 51 ° 33 ’ E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 10w; Al Kharara-Seleiyn Road, 09.iv.2005, 24 ° 53 ’ N, 51 ° 10 ’ E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 13 w, (KSMA) .

Geographic distribution. This is a Palearctic species originally described from Algeria and is distributed eastwardly across Egypt (Sharaf 2006), Israel (Vonshak and Ionescu 2009), the Arabian Peninsula: UAE (Tigar and Collingwood 1993), Kuwait, UAE, Oman and Yemen (Collingwood 1985, Collingwood and Agosti 1996, Collingwood and van Harten 2001), Qatar (Sharaf et al. 2019), to Iran (Paknia et al. 2008).