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Brachyponera sennaarensis

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

Brachyponera sennaarensis (Mayr, 1862)

Fig. 53

Ponera sennaarensis Mayr, 1862: 721 (w) Sudan. Afrotropic.

Diagnosis

Body dark brown to black-brown, tibiae, antennae, and tarsi red; head broader than mesosoma; metanotal groove well-impressed; petiolar node high and thick; first and second gastral tergites separated by a distinct constriction; sting powerful; body surfaces covered with dense pubescence.

Material examined

OMAN – Dhofar • 5 w; Ayn Razat; 17.124° N, 54.238° E; alt. 98 m; 20 Nov. 2017; HP; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 5 w; Ayn Hamran; 17.086° N, 54.280° E; alt. 6 m; 22 Nov. 2017; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 2 w; Ayn Razat; 17.130° N, 54.236° E; alt. 121 m; 20 Nov. 2017; HP; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 6 w; Dhalkout; 16.707° N, 53.251° E; alt. 34 m; 19 Nov. 2017; HP; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 1 w; same collection data as for preceding; CASENT0922868; CASC • 5 w; Dhalkout; 16.705° N, 53.24453° E; alt. 43 m; 18 Nov. 2017; HP; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 5 w; Ayn Dirbat; 17.106° N, 54.453° E; alt. 207 m; 17 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 6 w; Dhalkout; 16.693° N, 53.156° E; alt. 628 m; 18 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 1 w; Ayn Hamran; 17.100° N, 54.284° E; alt. 106 m; 20 Nov. 2017; HP; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 3 w; Salalah; 17.019° N, 54.065° E; alt. 9 m; 18 Nov. 2017; HP; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 1 w; Dhalkout Road, Aghbaroot Village; 16.798° N, 53.554° E; alt. 1034 m; 18 Nov. 2017; HP; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA.

Ecological and biological notes

Brachyponera sennaarensis inhabits a wide range of habitats in the Arabian Peninsula, associated with moist soil and leaf litter around date palm trees, under rocks, logs, or beneath debris near human settlements, in manicured parks, backyards of homes and agricultural production areas (Collingwood 1985; Collingwood & Agosti 1996; Sharaf et al. 2017c, 2018a). The species is generalized forager, feeding on seeds or on other ants (Dejean & Lachaud 1994).

Geographic range

A species described originally from Sudan, B. sennaarensis is widely distributed throughout Africa and the Middle East, including the Arabian Peninsula (Collingwood 1985; Collingwood & Agosti 1996; Collingwood et al. 2011) and the Socotra Archipelago (Sharaf et al. 2017c). Brachyponera sennaarensis was collected in Dhofar by Collingwood (1985).

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 page 86, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.838.1925, http://zenodo.org/record/7094306

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/1461EC42FFC5FFEDFD8F055813CAFA2C

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.7094469 (DOI)
Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.6295172 (DOI)
Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/A5A183F0211330F876470981B3D01620 (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)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/1461EC42FFC5FFEDFD8F055813CAFA2C (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/200928007 (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
CASC , HP, KSMA , KSMA , SF, KSMA
Event date
2017-11-17 , 2017-11-18 , 2017-11-19 , 2017-11-20 , 2017-11-22
Verbatim event date
2017-11-17 , 2017-11-18 , 2017-11-19 , 2017-11-20 , 2017-11-22
Scientific name authorship
Mayr
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Formicidae
Genus
Brachyponera
Species
sennaarensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Brachyponera sennaarensis (Mayr, 1862) sec. Sharaf, Wetterer, Mohamed & Aldawood, 2022

References

  • Mayr G. 1862. Myrmecologische Studien. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koniglichen ZoologischBotanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12: 649 - 776. https: // doi. org / 10.5281 / zenodo. 25912
  • Collingwood C. A. 1985. Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 7: 230 - 302.
  • Collingwood C. A. & Agosti D. 1996. Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (part 2). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15: 300 - 385.
  • Sharaf M. R., Fisher B. L., Collingwood C. A. & Aldawood S. A. 2017 c. Ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen): zoogeography, distribution and description of a new species. Journal of Natural History 51 (5 - 6): 317 - 378. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933.2016.1271157
  • Sharaf M. R., Fisher B. L., Al Dhafer H. M., Polaszek A. & Aldawood A. S. 2018 a. Additions to the ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Oman: an updated list, new records and a description of two new species. Asian Myrmecology 9: e 010004. https: // doi. org / 10.20362 / am. 010004
  • Dejean A. & Lachaud J. - P. 1994. Ecology and behavior of the seed-eating ponerine ant Brachyponera sennaarensis. Insectes Sociaux 41: 191 - 210. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 01240478
  • Collingwood C. A., Agosti D., Sharaf M. R. & van Harten A. 2011. Order Hymenoptera, family Formicidae. Arthropod Fauna of the UAE 4: 405 - 474.