Lepisiota elbazi Sharaf & Hita Garcia 2020
- 1. Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- 2. Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, FL, USA.
- 3. Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, PO Box 12613, Giza, Egypt.
Description
Lepisiota elbazi Sharaf & Hita Garcia, 2020
Fig. 18
Lepisiota elbazi Sharaf & Hita Garcia, 2020 in Sharaf et al. 2020: 134 (w) Afrotropic.
Diagnosis
Bicolored species, head, mesosoma, petiole yellow or red-yellow, distal end of scapes, first funicular segment, and mandibular teeth darker; gaster dark brown to black with first tergite of lighter brown. In profile, posterior margin of head anteroposteriorly compressed; limited number of hair pairs on body: two pairs on posterior margin of head, two to three pairs on promesonotum, and one to two pairs on first gastral tergite.
Material examined
OMAN – Dhofar • w, holotype; Ayn Razat; 17.124° N, 54.238° E; alt. 98 m; 20 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 1 w, paratype; same collection data as for holotype; CASENT0922860; KSMA.
Ecological and biological notes
The two workers of the species were collected at Ayn Razat (Fig. 18) and were collected foraging in leaf litter under a tree of Vachellia where the soil was dry (Sharaf et al. 2020a).
Geographic range
Oman.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- KSMA , SF, KSMA
- Event date
- 2017-11-20
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Lepisiota
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Sharaf & Hita Garcia
- Species
- elbazi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Verbatim event date
- 2017-11-20
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lepisiota elbazi Sharaf, 2020 sec. Sharaf, Wetterer, Mohamed & Aldawood, 2022
References
- Sharaf M. R., Aldawood A. S., Mohamed A. A. & Hita Garcia F. 2020 a. The genus Lepisiota Santschi, 1926 of the Arabian Peninsula with the description of a new species, Lepisiota elbazi sp. nov. from Oman, an updated species identificartion key, and assessment of zoogeographic affinities. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 76: 127 - 152. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / jhr. 76.50193
- Sharaf M. R., Mohamed A. A., Al Dhafer H. M. & Aldawood A. S. 2020 b. Nesomyrmex micheleae, a new ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Dhofar, Oman, with a synoptic list, distribution map and key to the Arabian Nesomyrmex. Journal of Natural History 54: 351 - 365. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933.2020.1762013