Lepisiota carbonaria ( Emery, 1892 )

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 : 27

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.7094391

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1461EC42-FF8A-FFA2-FDD4-0614131FFB02

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scientific name

Lepisiota carbonaria ( Emery, 1892 )
status

 

Lepisiota carbonaria ( Emery, 1892) View in CoL

Fig. 16 View Fig

Acantholepis carbonaria Emery, 1892: 119 View in CoL (w, q) Somalia. Afrotropic.

Diagnosis

Smaller species (TL 2.12); color dark brown, antennae, tibiae, and tarsi yellowish; propodeal spines short and blunt; head and mesosoma strongly sculptured, completely opaque; head in full-face view with posterior margin without setae; mesosoma without setae.

Material examined

OMAN – Dhofar • 4 w; Ayn Razat ; 17.124° N, 54.238° E; alt. 98 m; 20 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA GoogleMaps .

Ecological and biological notes

This species was found in leaf litter under a tree of Vachellia where the soil was dry.

Geographic range

This species was originally described from Somalia and has been recorded from Oman by Collingwood& Agosti (1996). This species is a new record for Dhofar.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

SubOrder

Apocrita

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Lepisiota

Loc

Lepisiota carbonaria ( Emery, 1892 )

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, Amr A. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S. 2022
2022
Loc

Acantholepis carbonaria

Emery C. 1892: 119
1892
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