Tapinoma simrothi Krausse, 1911

Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud M, Al Dhafer, Hathal Mohammed, Aldawood, Abdulrahman S & Sharaf, Mostafa R, 2021, An update to the taxonomy and distribution of the Arabian Tapinoma Foerster, 1850 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with an illustrated key and remarks on habitats, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 66058-66058 : 66058

Tapinoma simrothi Krausse, 1911

Tapinoma erraticum var. simrothi Krausse, 1911a: 18 (w.) Italy (Sardinia). Palearctic.

Tapinoma erraticum var. simrothi Krausse, 1911a: 18 (w.) Italy (Sardinia). Palearctic.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 9; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location : country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Khobar, Prince Sultan Palace ; verbatimElevation: 8 m; decimalLatitude: 26.34625; decimalLongitude: 50.2177; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2013; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2013-12-20; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 5; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location : country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Qatif, Ar Rimal ; decimalLatitude: 26.49865; decimalLongitude: 50.00488; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2013; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2013-12-17; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: M.R. Sharaf; individualCount: 9; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Buraydah ; verbatimElevation: 633 m; decimalLatitude: 26.2159; decimalLongitude: 44.041383; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2011; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2011-09-17; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 1; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Afif ; verbatimElevation: 1052 m; decimalLatitude: 23.90005; decimalLongitude: 42.88075; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2015-01-17; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 3; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location : country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Al Aflag, Layla ; verbatimElevation: 562 m; decimalLatitude: 22.23719; decimalLongitude: 46.69951; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-01-21; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 2; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Al Ghat ; verbatimElevation: 670 m; decimalLatitude: 26.02495; decimalLongitude: 44.9365; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-06-07; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 3; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Al Ghat ; verbatimElevation: 679 m; decimalLatitude: 26.02219; decimalLongitude: 44.9876; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-09-13; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 3; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Al Ghat ; verbatimElevation: 653 m; decimalLatitude: 26.06582; decimalLongitude: 44.91929; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2015-10-31; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: M.R. Sharaf; individualCount: 6; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Al Hayer ; verbatimElevation: 587 m; decimalLatitude: 24.55755; decimalLongitude: 46.74115; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2013; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2013-10-09; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 4; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Al Hayer ; verbatimElevation: 467 m; decimalLatitude: 24.54645; decimalLongitude: 46.74156; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-04-11; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 3; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Al Kharj ; verbatimElevation: 453 m; decimalLatitude: 24.1436; decimalLongitude: 47.24252; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-01-19; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 9; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Al Kharj ; verbatimElevation: 451 m; decimalLatitude: 24.29615; decimalLongitude: 47.15553; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-09-08; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: M.R. Sharaf; individualCount: 17; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Ammariya ; verbatimElevation: 633 m; decimalLatitude: 23.8333; decimalLongitude: 45; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2008; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2008-07-07; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 5; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Dirab ; verbatimElevation: 604 m; decimalLatitude: 24.41867; decimalLongitude: 46.65408; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-09-18; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 1; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Hawtat Bani Tamim ; verbatimElevation: 582 m; decimalLatitude: 23.45943; decimalLongitude: 46.81895; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2015-02-19; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 2; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Hawtat Sudayr ; verbatimElevation: 732 m; decimalLatitude: 25.59162; decimalLongitude: 45.61245; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2015-01-31; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: M.R. Sharaf; individualCount: 9; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Huraymila ; verbatimElevation: 785 m; decimalLatitude: 25.127861; decimalLongitude: 46.088278; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2011; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2011-02-07; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 4; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Huraymila ; verbatimElevation: 791 m; decimalLatitude: 25.12799; decimalLongitude: 46.11783; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-02-22; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 9; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Huraymila ; verbatimElevation: 785 m; decimalLatitude: 25.09757; decimalLongitude: 46.10106; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-02-22; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 5; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Huraymila ; verbatimElevation: 786 m; decimalLatitude: 25.12037; decimalLongitude: 46.12265; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-02-22; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 4; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Huraymila ; verbatimElevation: 771 m; decimalLatitude: 25.12636; decimalLongitude: 46.15782; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-02-22; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 2; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Huraymila ; verbatimElevation: 801 m; decimalLatitude: 25.09358; decimalLongitude: 46.08141; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-02-22; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: M.R. Sharaf; individualCount: 3; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: King Saud University Campus ; verbatimElevation: 687 m; decimalLatitude: 24.716667; decimalLongitude: 46.616667; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2009; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2009-10-19; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 18; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: King Saud University Campus ; verbatimElevation: 687 m; decimalLatitude: 24.716667; decimalLongitude: 46.616667; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2013; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2013-03-15; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 28; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: King Saud University Campus ; verbatimElevation: 671 m; decimalLatitude: 24.721683; decimalLongitude: 46.622083; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2013; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2013-03-11; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 8; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: King Saud University Campus ; verbatimElevation: 681 m; decimalLatitude: 24.72185; decimalLongitude: 46.621183; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2013; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2013-03-07; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 4; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Majmaa ; verbatimElevation: 722 m; decimalLatitude: 25.91771; decimalLongitude: 45.33556; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-06-05; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 3; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Majmaa ; verbatimElevation: 746 m; decimalLatitude: 25.93117; decimalLongitude: 45.35802; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-09-13; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 3; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Malham ; verbatimElevation: 711 m; decimalLatitude: 25.15427; decimalLongitude: 46.28214; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-09-15; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 9; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Mozahmyia ; verbatimElevation: 677 m; decimalLatitude: 24.45125; decimalLongitude: 46.20202; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-01-25; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 2; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Mozahmyia ; verbatimElevation: 641 m; decimalLatitude: 24.46553; decimalLongitude: 46.2201; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-01-25; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 2; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Mozahmyia ; verbatimElevation: 648 m; decimalLatitude: 24.48388; decimalLongitude: 46.26317; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-01-25; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 6; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Na'jan ; verbatimElevation: 513 m; decimalLatitude: 24.06858; decimalLongitude: 47.1725; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-12-13; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: M.R. Sharaf; individualCount: 2; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Oyaina ; verbatimElevation: 749 m; decimalLatitude: 24.90665; decimalLongitude: 46.389917; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2010; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2010-04-28; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 15; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location : country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Riyadh City , Al Emam University ; verbatimElevation: 650 m; decimalLatitude: 24.81658; decimalLongitude: 46.71162; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-09-08; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 5; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Shaqra ; verbatimElevation: 728 m; decimalLatitude: 25.26655; decimalLongitude: 45.26779; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-05-30; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 1; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Shaqra ; verbatimElevation: 891 m; decimalLatitude: 25.12131; decimalLongitude: 45.48365; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2015-01-23; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 1; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Tebrak ; verbatimElevation: 724 m; decimalLatitude: 24.32406; decimalLongitude: 45.47128; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-11-29; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 1; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Thadiq ; verbatimElevation: 735 m; decimalLatitude: 25.2936; decimalLongitude: 45.87102; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-04-26; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 6; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Wadi El Dawaser ; verbatimElevation: 706 m; decimalLatitude: 20.49008; decimalLongitude: 44.76018; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-01-22; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 5; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Wadi El Dawaser ; verbatimElevation: 686 m; decimalLatitude: 22.7774; decimalLongitude: 44.78624; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2015-02-22; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 3; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Wadi El Dawaser ; verbatimElevation: 694 m; decimalLatitude: 22.47942; decimalLongitude: 44.78839; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2015-02-22; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: M.R. Sharaf; individualCount: 6; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Wadi Hanifa ; verbatimElevation: 633 m; decimalLatitude: 24.658983; decimalLongitude: 46.60345; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2010; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2010-01-15; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: M.R. Sharaf; individualCount: 3; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Wadi Hanifa ; verbatimElevation: 641 m; decimalLatitude: 24.67088; decimalLongitude: 46.59513; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2013; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2013-04-11; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 1; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Wadi Hanifa ; verbatimElevation: 654 m; decimalLatitude: 24.67089; decimalLongitude: 46.58061; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall trap; eventDate: 2014-02-14; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 1; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Wadi Hanifa ; verbatimElevation: 684 m; decimalLatitude: 24.74123; decimalLongitude: 46.56113; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall trap; eventDate: 2014-09-18; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 3; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Wadi Hanifa ; verbatimElevation: 674 m; decimalLatitude: 24.73507; decimalLongitude: 46.57518; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall trap; eventDate: 2014-09-18; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 4; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Wadi Janadriya ; verbatimElevation: 603 m; decimalLatitude: 24.8773; decimalLongitude: 46.82031; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2014-11-19; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: M.R. Sharaf; individualCount: 4; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Wadi Qarina ; verbatimElevation: 633 m; decimalLatitude: 25.9365; decimalLongitude: 46.833; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2009; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall trap; eventDate: 2009-11-05; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 4; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Zulfi ; verbatimElevation: 635 m; decimalLatitude: 26.27192; decimalLongitude: 44.77071; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall trap; eventDate: 2014-01-18; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 12; sex: worker; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Zulfi ; verbatimElevation: 623 m; decimalLatitude: 26.27996; decimalLongitude: 44.80443; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall trap; eventDate: 2014-01-18; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: M.R. Sharaf; individualCount: 1; sex: queen; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Oyaina ; verbatimElevation: 749 m; decimalLatitude: 24.90665; decimalLongitude: 46.389917; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2010; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2010-04-28; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: S. Salman; individualCount: 1; sex: queen; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma simrothi; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Wadi El Dawaser ; verbatimElevation: 686 m; decimalLatitude: 22.7774; decimalLongitude: 44.78624; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand picking; eventDate: 2015-02-22; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Diagnosis

Worker. Head in full-face view with strongly convex sides and nearly straight posterior margin (Fig. 3 c); anterior central margin with a median well-defined notch, deeper than broad; with head in full-face view, scape surpassing posterior margin of head by about one third of its length (Fig. 3 c); metanotal groove distinct (Fig. 3 a); propodeal dorsum short, meeting declivity at an obtuse angle; colour uniform dark brown to black, tarsi yellow-brown; whole body covered with appressed pubescence (Fig. 3 a, b).

Previous records

KUWAIT: Failaka Island; Kuwait; Wadi Umm al-Rumam (Collingwood & Agosti 1996). OMAN: Wahiba Sands ( Collingwood 1985). SA: Al Qatif ( Collingwood 1985). UAE: Al-Ain ( Collingwood et al. 2011). YEMEN: AI-Mahwit ( Collingwood and Agosti 1996).

Distribution

A Palearctic species ( Borowiec 2014) originally described from Italy. It is a broadly distributed species in the Arabian Peninsula ( Collingwood 1985, Collingwood and Agosti 1996, Collingwood et al. 2011, Sharaf et al. 2018), Egypt ( Sharaf 2006), Iran ( Pashaei Rad et al. 2018) and Turkey ( Kiran and Karaman 2012).

Ecology

In SA, T. simrothi was found nesting amongst roots of lawns, attending mealybugs and co-existing with Solenopsis abdita ( Sharaf and Aldawood 2011). The species also attends Aphis gossypii Glover, 1877 for honeydew and the latter gains protection from predators in return ( Karami-jamour et al. 2018). The species was nesting under stones next to Acacia trees of the desert habitats of the Riyadh Province.