Solenopsis saudiensis Sharaf & Aldawood, 2011

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2013, The ants (Hymenoptera: formicidae) of Rawdhat Khorim Nature Preserve, Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species of the genus Tetramorium Mayr, Zootaxa 3709 (6), pp. 565-580 : 574

Solenopsis saudiensis Sharaf & Aldawood, 2011

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Solenopsis saudiensis Sharaf & Aldawood, 2011: 476 .

This species was recently described from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Sharaf and Aldawood, 2011) and was the first record of the genus from the country. Recently, the Solenopsis of the Arabian Peninsula were revised by Sharaf and Aldwood (2012). At Rawdhat Khorim this species is rare, with only a single specimen collected by a pitfall trap in February.

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FIGURE 6. a, b, Solenopsis saudiensis (CASENT0249866, Saudi Arabia); c, d, Tetramorium chefketi (CASENT0906711, Bulgaria); e, f, g, Tetramorium saudicum sp. n. (CASENT0281582, Saudi Arabia); h, i, Tetramorium sericeiventre (CASENT0102388, Madagascar).