Monomorium barbatulum Mayr, 1877 *

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Monomorium barbatulum Mayr, 1877: 17 .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Turkey • 3 ☿; Şanlıurfa, Harran; 36°52’01”N, 39°01’22”E; 363 m; 24.IV.2015; C. Karaman leg.; EMTU 15 /0006d • 19 ☿; same collection data as for preceding; C. Karaman leg.; EMTU 15 /0008a • 3 ☿; same collection data as for preceding; C. Karaman leg.; MNHN 15 /0008a • 1 ☿; same collection data as for preceding; 36°52’N, 39°01’E; C. Karaman leg.; EMTU 15 /0009f .

DISTRIBUTION IN TURKEY. — New for Turkey.

REMARKS

Monomorium barbatulum, distributed in southern part of European Russia, Arabian Peninsula, Israel and Central Asia (Collingwood & Agosti 1996; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch 2009; Collingwood et al. 2011; Dubovikoff & Yusupov 2017), was recently recorded in North of Iran very near to South of Turkey (Ghahari et al. 2015). Iranian locality is very close to the Turkish one.