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Order Hymenoptera, family Formicidae

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Cedric A. Collingwood, Donat Agosti, Mostafa R. Sharaf, Antonius van Harten (2011): Order Hymenoptera, family Formicidae. Arthropod fauna of the UAE 4: 1-70, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1168586

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