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A remarkable new species of the genus Lepisiota Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Oman and the United Arab Emirates with a key to the Arabian species
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Mostafa R. Sharaf, Joe Monks, Andrew Polaszek, Abdulrahman S. Aldawood (2016): A remarkable new species of the genus Lepisiota Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Oman and the United Arab Emirates with a key to the Arabian species. Journal of Natural History 50 (29): 1875-1887, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2016.1180722
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