Monomorium areniphilum Santschi, 1911

(Fig. 17 A–C)

Monomorium Salomonis var. areniphila Santschi, 1911: 84 (w.) Tunisia. Palearctic.

Diagnosis. Worker. Uniform dark brown with paler tarsi; eyes with 12–14 ommatidia in longest row; mesosoma in profile with the promesonotal outline, with the posterior portion of the mesonotum sharply down curved and descending to impressed metanotal groove; dorsal of mesosoma without standing hairs; propodeal dorsum with a narrow, flattened, median, longitudinal strip.

Material examined. Qatar, Al-Dohuil, 15.iii.2005, 25°22’N, 51°29’E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 8w; Rawdet Rashed, 12.iii.2005, 25°14.006’N, 51°12.286’E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 47w; Doha. 08.iii.2005, 25°18‘N, 51°25‘E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 31w; Al-Rayyan, 08.iii.2005, 25°18’N, 51°25’E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 26w, (KSMA).

Monomorium tumaire Collingwood & Agosti, 1996

(Fig. 19 A–B)

Monomorium tumaire Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 356, fig. 29 (w.) Saudi Arabia. Afrotropic.

Diagnosis. Worker. Color light brown or yellowbrown; metanotal groove shallowly impressed; propodeal furrow distinct; underside of head with numerous hairs, the longest exceeding the maximum eye length; posterior margin of head with two pairs of hairs; pronotum with one pair of hairs, petiole with one pair and postpetiole with two pairs of hairs; gaster with 12–16 suberect hairs on the first tergite; head and mesosoma shallowly reticulate-punctate.

Previous records. Qatar, Doha, 25°17’N, 51°30’E, 22.ix.2005, (M. Lush leg.) .

Geographic distribution. Monomorium tumaire was originally described from KSA and is endemic to the Arabian Peninsula, where it is reported from KSA, Oman, UAE (Tigar and Collingwood 1993, Collingwood and Agosti 1996, Collingwood et al. 2011), and Qatar (Lush 2009).

Geographic distribution. The species is widely distributed throughout the Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa (Bolton 1987, Sharaf 2006) and extending eastward to the Arabian Peninsula: KSA, Kuwait, Oman, UAE, and Yemen (Collingwood 1985; Collingwood and Agosti 1996; Collingwood et al. 2011). This material represents the first record from.