Tetramorium lanuginosum Mayr, 1870

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 : 79

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.7094515

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1461EC42-FFDE-FFF6-FDBF-0518154CF99A

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scientific name

Tetramorium lanuginosum Mayr, 1870
status

 

Tetramorium lanuginosum Mayr, 1870 View in CoL

Fig. 49 View Fig

Tetramorium lanuginosum Mayr, 1870: 976 View in CoL (w) Indonesia (Java). Indomalaya.

Diagnosis

Color ranges from light brown to dark brown, gaster darker than body; anterior clypeal margin with small median notch; cephalic surface strongly reticulate-rugose; eyes with 8–10 ommatidia in longest row; frontal carinae well-marked; antennal scrobes well-defined; mesosoma convex in profile; metanotal groove indistinct; propodeal spines long and sharp; gaster smooth and shiny; body hairs long and profuse, bifid and simple.

Material examined

Holotype

INDONESIA • Java, Batavia ; CASENT0235202; NHMW.

Additional material

OMAN – Dhofar • 1 w; Dhalkout , 16.727° N, 53.249° E; alt. 623 m; 18 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA GoogleMaps 2 w; Dhalkout Road, Aghbaroot Village ; 16.798° N, 53.554° E; alt. 1034 m; 18 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA GoogleMaps 5 w; Ayn Dirbat ; 17.106° N, 54.453° E; alt. 207 m; 17 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA GoogleMaps 1 w; Salalah ; 17.019° N, 54.065° E; alt. 9 m; 18 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA GoogleMaps 5 w; Dhalkout ; 16.707° N, 53.251° E; alt. 34 m; 19 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA GoogleMaps 1 w; same collection data as for preceding; CASENT0922857; CASC GoogleMaps 1 w; Ayn Razat ; 17.124° N, 54.238° E; alt. 98 m; 20 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA GoogleMaps 11 w; Dhalkout ; 16.693° N, 53.156° E; alt. 628 m; 18 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA GoogleMaps .

Ecological and biological notes

The diverse nesting and feeding habits presumably has allowed a successful worldwide distribution. Nests are built in moist soil under stones, in leaf litter ( Sharaf et al. 2018a), under trunks of dead palm trees, and in soil that is rich in organic matter ( Sharaf et al. 2017c). In Dhofar, workers are foraging on ground in a shaded area with dense plant cover of grasses and shrubs.

Geographic range

It is a successful tramp species, originally described from Indonesia which has widely dispersed into tropical and subtropical regions ( Bolton 1976; Wetterer 2010a; Hita Garcia & Fisher 2011; Agavekar et al. 2017). It has been previously collected from Oman ( Sharaf et al. 2018a), KSA ( Collingwood & Agosti 1996), the Socotra Archipelago ( Collingwood et al. 2004; Sharaf et al. 2017c), Egypt ( Sharaf 2006), and Palestine ( Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch 2009). This species is recorded for the first time in Dhofar.

NHMW

Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Tetramorium

Loc

Tetramorium lanuginosum Mayr, 1870

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

Tetramorium lanuginosum

Mayr G. 1870: 976
1870
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