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A Preliminary Synopsis of the Ant Fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Qatar with Remarks on the Zoogeography

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Sharaf, Mostafa R., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Mohamed, Amr A., Fisher, Brian L., Aldawood, Abdulrahman S. (2020): A Preliminary Synopsis of the Ant Fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Qatar with Remarks on the Zoogeography. Annales Zoologici 70 (4): 533-560, DOI: 10.3161/00034541anz2020.70.4.005, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3161/00034541anz2020.70.4.005

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