Tetramorium chefketi Forel, 1911

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

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3709.6.6

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:10D447D5-D5C0-409F-85FC-6E3E4619C487

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6422562

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B59A00-FFC3-FF92-6BB0-FAE4FCC0F940

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scientific name

Tetramorium chefketi Forel, 1911
status

 

Tetramorium chefketi Forel, 1911

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Tetramorium caespitum var. chefketi Forel, 1911:332 . Raised to species: Agosti & Collingwood, 1987: 56. Senior synonym of Tetramorium turcomanicum: Csõsz, Radchenko & Schulz, 2007: 18 View in CoL .

This species was recorded from Saudi Arabia ( Collingwood, 1985), Oman and Yemen ( Collingwood and Agosti, 1996). Outside Arabia, it has been reported from several parts of the Palaearctic region including southern Europe ( Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania), southern Ukraine, south of western Russia, northwestern Caucasus, Turkey, Turkmenistan, northern Kazakhstan, southeastern Siberia, to the east to Kyrgyzstan and Altai Mountains ( Csõsz et al., 2007). At Rawdhat Khorim this species is relatively common and observed foraging on Ziziphus nummularia (Burm. f) Wight & Arn. ( Rhamnaceae ). The species has two abundance peaks, in June and November. It was collected using pitfall traps and beating vegetation.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Tetramorium

Loc

Tetramorium chefketi Forel, 1911

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S. 2013
2013
Loc

Tetramorium caespitum var. chefketi

Csosz, S. & Radchenko, A. & Schulz, A. 2007: 18
Agosti, D. & Collingwood, C. A. 1987: 56
Forel, A. 1911: 332
1911
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