Filling gaps in global myrmecology: ants of the Kingdom of Bahrain (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Sharaf, Mostafa R.; Wetterer, James K.; Mohamed, AbdulAziz M. A.; Georgiadis, Christos; Nasser, Mohamed G.; Aldawood, Abdulrahman S.

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Filling gaps in global myrmecology: ants of the Kingdom of Bahrain (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

1. Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; & Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA;
2. Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, FL, USA;
3. Agriculture Affairs, Ministry of Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture, Kingdom of Bahrain;
4. Section of Zoology-Marine Biology and Zoological Museum, Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece;
5. Research Laboratory of Biogeography and Wildlife Parasitology (RLBWP), Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbassia, Egypt
6. Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia;

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, AbdulAziz M. A., Georgiadis, Christos, Nasser, Mohamed G., Aldawood, Abdulrahman S. (2024): Filling gaps in global myrmecology: ants of the Kingdom of Bahrain (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 58 (41-44): 1705-1786, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2388791, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2388791

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