Monomorium venustum
Description
Myrmica venusta Smith, 1858: 126 (w.) Syria. Palearctic.
Diagnosis. Worker. Bicolored species with head, mesosoma, petiole, and postpetiole red, gaster brown to black; metanotal groove well-developed, deep, and broad; petiolar node high and rounded in profile; mesosoma, petiole, and postpetiole superficially faintly sculptured; petiole and postpetiole each have one pair of dorsal hairs while the first gastral tergite is bare.
Monomorium venustum closely resembles M. niloticum Emery, 1881 from which it can be differentiated by a lack of mesosomal pilosity.
Material examined. Qatar, Rawdet Rashed, 12.iii.2005, 25°14.006’N, 51°12.286’E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 9w, (KSMA).
Geographic distribution. This species was originally described from Syria and is known from Libya, east to Levant: Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria (Borowiec and Salata 2020); Arabian Peninsula: KSA, Kuwait, and Oman (Collingwood 1985, Collingwood and Agosti 1996); Iran, and Turkmenistan (Borowiec and Salata 2020). This material represents a new record for Qatar.
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Identifiers
Related works
- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4433620 (DOI)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.3161/00034541anz2020.70.4.005 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4433537 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/7B75FFFEFFE0FFF55050187D2829FFDE (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- KSMA
- Event date
- 2005-03-12
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Monomorium
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Smith
- Species
- venustum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2005-03-12
- Taxonomic concept label
- Monomorium venustum (Smith, 1858) sec. Sharaf, Abdel-Dayem, Mohamed, Fisher & Aldawood, 2020
References
- Smith, F. 1858. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp.
- Borowiec L, S. Salata. 2020. Review of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Jordan. Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, Entomology, 29: 1 - 26.
- Collingwood, C. A. 1985. Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 7: 230 - 302.
- Collingwood, C. A. and Agosti, D. 1996. Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (Part 2). Fauna of Arabia, 15: 300 - 385.