Pheidole sinaitica Mayr, 1862

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Mohamed, Amr A., Fisher, Brian L. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2020, A Preliminary Synopsis of the Ant Fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Qatar with Remarks on the Zoogeography, Annales Zoologici 70 (4), pp. 533-560 : 550

Pheidole sinaitica Mayr, 1862

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Pheidole sinaitica Mayr, 1862: 745 (s.w.) Egypt. Palearctic.

Diagnosis. Major worker. Color uniform brown to light brown; posterior margin of head deeply emarginated in full-face view; second funicular segment slightly longer than broad; metanotal groove welldeveloped and broad; propodeal spines short and acute; cephalic surfaces longitudinally rugulose running posteriorly to two-thirds of head length; posterior corners of head without striae; body surfaces with abundant long hairs.

Material examined. Qatar, Al-Dohuil (Doha), 8-18.iii.2005; 25°22’N, 51°29’E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 4w, ( KSMA) .

Geographic distribution. This species was described from Egypt and is known from East Africa: Eritrea, Kenya, Sudan; Morocco; Levant: Egypt, Israel, Iraq ( Sharaf 2006, Vonshak and Ionescu 2009); the Arabian Peninsula: KSA, Oman, UAE, Yemen ( Collingwood 1985, Collingwood and Agosti 1996, Collingwood et al. 2011); and Iran ( Paknia et al. 2008). This material represents a new record for Qatar.

Figures

Figure 21. Pheidole sinaitica, Major worker, A, body in profile B, body in dorsal view C, head in full-face view, CASENT0263723 (Estella Ortega), www.AntWeb.org.