Cerapachys longitarsus
Creators
- 1. Economic Entomology Research Unit (EERU).
- 2. King Saud University Museum of Arthropods (KSMA).
Description
Cerapachys longitarsus (Mayr, 1879)
(Fig. 4 a, b)
Lioponera longitarsus Mayr, 1879: 667. Combination in Cerapachys: Brown, 1975: 237.
This is the second record of this species from Saudi Arabia and for the Arabian Peninsula. The first record of this species was from Abu Arish (southwestern Saudi Arabia) by Collingwood (1985). Cerapachys longitarsus was originally described from India and subsequently recorded from UAE (Collingwood et al., 2011); Egypt (Sharaf, 2006); Philippines, North Australia, and Taiwan (Terayama et al., 1988). At Rawdhat Khorim this species is considered rare, with only four specimens. All are alate males, three attracted to a light trap and one collected by a pitfall trap. They were collected in April, October and November.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Cerapachys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Mayr
- Species
- longitarsus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cerapachys longitarsus (Mayr, 1879) sec. Sharaf, Abdel-Dayem, Dhafer & Aldawood, 2013
References
- Mayr, G. (1879) Beitrage zur Ameisen-Fauna Asiens. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 28, 645 - 686.
- Brown, W. L. Jr. (1975) Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. 5. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search Agriculture 5. Entomology (Ithaca), 15, 1 - 115.
- Collingwood, C. A. (1985) Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna Saudi Arabia, 7, 230 - 302.
- Collingwood, C. A., Agosti, D., Sharaf, M. R. & Van Harten T. (2011) Order Hymenoptera, Family Formicidae. Arthropod Fauna of the UAE, 4, 405 - 474.
- Sharaf, M. R. (2006) Taxonomic and ecological studies on family Formicidae (Order: Hymenoptera) in Egypt including some protectorates with a study of some insect fauna associated with ant species. Ain Shams University, Faculty of Science, Entomology Department, Cairo (unpublished thesis), 340 pp.
- Terayama, M., Kubota, S., Sakai, H. & Kawazoe, A. (1988) Rediscovery of Cerapachys sauteri Forel, 1913 (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Taiwan, with notes on the Taiwanese species of the genus Cerapachys. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 43, 35 - 38.