Messor ebeninus Santschi, 1927

(Fig. 5 e, f)

Messor semirufus var. ebeninus Santschi, 1927: 229 . Raised to species: Tohmé, 1971: 569. Junior synonym of Messor semirufus: Baroni Urbani, 1974: 227 . Revived from synonymy: Tohmé & Tohmé, 1981:142.

This species is widely distributed throughout the Arabian Peninsula (Collingwood, 1985, Collingwood and Agosti, 1996). At Rawdhat Khorim, worker activity has two peaks of abundance, in April and December, decreasing from July through October.