Lepisiota elbazi Sharaf & Hita Garcia, 2020

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, Amr A. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2022, Faunal composition, diversity, and distribution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Dhofar Governorate, Oman, with updated list of the Omani species and remarks on zoogeography, European Journal of Taxonomy 838 (1), pp. 1-106 : 31

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.838.1925
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D495BCAE-9E03-4424-A01B-87F1CEB16B9C
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7094397
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scientific name	Lepisiota elbazi Sharaf & Hita Garcia, 2020
status

Treatment

Lepisiota elbazi Sharaf & Hita Garcia, 2020 View in CoL

Fig. 18 View Fig

Lepisiota elbazi Sharaf & Hita Garcia, 2020 View in CoL in Sharaf et al. 2020: 134 View Cited Treatment (w) Afrotropic.

Diagnosis

Bicolored species, head, mesosoma, petiole yellow or red-yellow, distal end of scapes, first funicular segment, and mandibular teeth darker; gaster dark brown to black with first tergite of lighter brown. In profile, posterior margin of head anteroposteriorly compressed; limited number of hair pairs on body: two pairs on posterior margin of head, two to three pairs on promesonotum, and one to two pairs on first gastral tergite.

Material examined

OMAN – Dhofar • w, holotype; Ayn Razat ; 17.124° N, 54.238° E; alt. 98 m; 20 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA GoogleMaps • 1 w, paratype; same collection data as for holotype; CASENT0922860; KSMA GoogleMaps .

Ecological and biological notes

The two workers of the species were collected at Ayn Razat ( Fig. 18 View Fig ) and were collected foraging in leaf litter under a tree of Vachellia where the soil was dry ( Sharaf et al. 2020a).

Geographic range

Oman.

References

Sharaf M. R., Aldawood A. S., Mohamed A. A. & Hita Garcia F. 2020 a. The genus Lepisiota Santschi, 1926 of the Arabian Peninsula with the description of a new species, Lepisiota elbazi sp. nov. from Oman, an updated species identificartion key, and assessment of zoogeographic affinities. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 76: 127 - 152. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / jhr. 76.50193

Sharaf M. R., Mohamed A. A., Al Dhafer H. M. & Aldawood A. S. 2020 b. Nesomyrmex micheleae, a new ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Dhofar, Oman, with a synoptic list, distribution map and key to the Arabian Nesomyrmex. Journal of Natural History 54: 351 - 365. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933.2020.1762013