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Review of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Jordan

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  • 1. Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego 65, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland, e-mail: lech.borowiec@uwr.edu.pl
  • 2. Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA, e-mail: sdsalata@gmail.com

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We present an updated checklist of ant species known from Jordan. In total we list 58 species and 26 morphospecies identified to genus or species group level. Ten species are recorded from the country for the first time: Aphaenogaster schmitzi Forel, 1910, Camponotus gestroi Emery, 1878, Camponotus rebeccae Forel, 1913, Crematogaster warburgi Menozzi, 1933, Hypoponera punctatissima (Roger, 1859), Lepisiota bipartita (Smith, 1861), Monomorium luteum Emery, 1881, Monomorium venustum (Smith, 1858), Tapinoma simrothi Krausse, 1911, and Trichomyrmex destructor (Jerdon, 1851). We also recognize 26 morphospecies which determination, due to lack of comprehensive taxonomic studies, is unachievable and some of them can represent species new to science. Furthermore, we list doubtful records of ten taxa: Camponotus aethiops (Latreille, 1798), Cataglyphis bicolor (Fabricius, 1793), Cataglyphis livida (André, 1881), Messor concolor Santschi, 1927, Messor meridionalis (André, 1883), Plagiolepis pallescens maura Santschi, 1920, Tapinoma erraticum (Latreille, 1798), Tapinoma nigerrimum (Nylander, 1856), Temnothorax luteus (Forel, 1874), and Tetramorium caespitum (Linnaeus, 1758), and discuss their possible affiliation with species of documented and certain presence in Jordan.

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