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Nesomyrmex micheleae Sharaf 2020

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

Nesomyrmex micheleae Sharaf, 2020

Fig. 44

Nesomyrmex micheleae Sharaf, 2020 in Sharaf et al. 2020b: 335 (w) Oman. Afrotropic.

Diagnosis

Bicolored species with head black-brown, mesosoma, petiole, postpetiole, and appendages brown, gaster golden yellow; median clypeal carina distinct; petiolar node nearly hexagonal from above; area in front of eyes and median cephalic surface irregularly, longitudinally rugulose; body covered with erect, blunt, stout, and moderately short setae.

Material examined

OMAN – Dhofar • w, holotype; Ayn Sahlanot; 17.148° N, 54.179° E; alt. 151 m; 16 Nov. 2017; BS; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 2 w, paratypes; same collection data as for holotype; CASENT0922872; KSMA.

Ecological and biological notes

The three workers of N. micheleae were foraging on a large tree in Ayn Sahlanot of the Dhofar and collected using a beating sheet. Additional collecting in a broad range of habitats in Dhofar were not successful in finding additional material (Sharaf et al. 2020b).

Geographic range

Known only from Oman.

Notes

Published as part of Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, Amr A. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2022, Faunal composition, diversity, and distribution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Dhofar Governorate, Oman, with updated list of the Omani species and remarks on zoogeography, pp. 1-106 in European Journal of Taxonomy 838 (1) on pages 69-72, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.838.1925, http://zenodo.org/record/7094306

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/1461EC42FFD4FFFFFDAB029211BAFD6D

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.7094443 (DOI)
Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.6492160 (DOI)
Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/B77487B02846FFBFFE41589DFD06FCA7 (URL)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.5852/ejt.2022.838.1925 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/7094306 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/E858943AFF90FFB8FF900411105CFFD3 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/D495BCAE-9E03-4424-A01B-87F1CEB16B9C (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/1461EC42FFD4FFFFFDAB029211BAFD6D (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/200928042 (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
BS, KSMA , KSMA
Event date
2017-11-16
Verbatim event date
2017-11-16
Scientific name authorship
Sharaf
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Genus
Nesomyrmex
Species
micheleae
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Nesomyrmex micheleae Sharaf, 2020 sec. Sharaf, Wetterer, Mohamed & Aldawood, 2022

References

  • 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
  • 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