Monomorium venustum
Authors/Creators
- 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
Monomorium venustum (Smith, 1858)
Fig. 43
Myrmica venusta Smith, 1858: 126 (w) Syria. Palearctic.
Diagnosis
Differential diagnosis is given under M. niloticum.
Material examined
This species was not collected during the present study.
Ecological and biological notes
In KSA, this species has been collected foraging on the ground near plants and other native vegetation. Several workers were observed carrying plant seeds and dead insects.
Geographic range
A species originally described from Syria and recorded from some countries in the Arabian Peninsula including Oman, KSA, Kuwait (Collingwood & Agosti 1996; Sharaf et al. 2015a). This species was recorded from Dhofar by Collingwood (1985) based on two workers. It closely resembles M. niloticum in size and color but has a considerably limited regional distribution.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Smith
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Monomorium
- Species
- venustum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Monomorium venustum (Smith, 1858) sec. Sharaf, Wetterer, Mohamed & Aldawood, 2022
References
- Smith F. 1858. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. British Museum, London. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 20858
- Collingwood C. A. & Agosti D. 1996. Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (part 2). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15: 300 - 385.
- Sharaf M. R., Collingwood C. A., Al Dhafer H. M., Al Mutairi M. S. & Aldawood A. S. 2015 a. New synonyms of two Arabian ants of the genus Monomorium Mayr, 1855 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 505: 51 - 58. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 505.9441
- Collingwood C. A. 1985. Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 7: 230 - 302.