Lepisiota spinisquama ( Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929 )

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, AbdulAziz M. A., Georgiadis, Christos, Nasser, Mohamed G. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2024, Filling gaps in global myrmecology: ants of the Kingdom of Bahrain (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Journal of Natural History 58 (41 - 44), pp. 1705-1786 : 1728

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scientific name	Lepisiota spinisquama ( Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929 )
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Lepisiota spinisquama ( Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929) View in CoL

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Acantholepis frauenfeldi subsp. spinisquama Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929, p. 483 , fig. 3

(w.) Kazakhstan. Palaearctic.

Diagnosis

Worker. Colour black, antennae, tibiae, and tarsi yellow; antennal scapes surpassing posterior margin of head by more than half of its length when laid back from their insertions; propodeal spines short, acute, and curved in profile; petiole bituberculate; pronotum with a single pair of long hairs; body smooth and shining.

Material examined. One site: 2.

Geographic range. This species was originally described from Kazakhstan, and it has been recorded from Iran ( Pashaei Rad et al. 2018), the KSA ( Collingwood and Agosti 1996; Sharaf et al. 2023), Yemen ( Collingwood and van Harten 2001), UAE (unpublished data), Oman ( Sharaf et al. 2018b; Monks et al. 2019), and the Socotra Archipelago ( Yemen) ( Collingwood et al. 2004; Sharaf et al. 2017).

Ecology and biology. Nests are built directly in the earth under stones, with a remarkable preference for humid soil that is rich in organic matter ( Sharaf et al. 2017), feeding on dead insects and also attending mealybugs ( Hemiptera : Pseudococcidae ). For more details about the biology of species see Sharaf et al. (2017).

References

Collingwood CA, Agosti D. 1996. Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (part 2). Fauna Saudi Arabia. 15: 300 - 385.

Collingwood CA, van Harten A. 2001. Additions to the ant fauna of Yemen. Esperiana Buch zur Entom. 8: 559 - 568.

Collingwood CA, Pohl H, Guesten R, Wranik W, van Harten A. 2004. The ants (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Socotra Archipelago. Fauna of Arabia. 20: 473 - 495. doi: 10.5281 / zenodo. 12560.

Kuznetsov-Ugamsky NN. 1929. Die Gattung Acantholepis in Turkestan. Zool Anz. 82: 477 - 492. doi: 10. 5281 / zenodo. 26184.

Monks J, Ross S, Geiser M, De Prins J, Sharaf M, Wyatt N, Al Rijeibi S, Polaszek A. 2019. A preliminary survey of the insect fauna of the Hajar Mountain Range, Oman. J Nat Hist. 53 (15 - 16): 939 - 963. doi: 10.1080 / 00222933.2019.1611969.

Pashaei Rad S, Taylor B, Torabi R, Aram E, Abolfathi G, Afshari R, Borjali F, Ghatei M, Hediary F, Jazini F, et al. 2018. Further records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran. Zool Mid East. 64 (2): 145 - 159. doi: 10.1080 / 09397140.2018.1442301.

Sharaf MR, Fisher BL, Collingwood CA, Aldawood AS. 2017. Ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen): zoogeography, distribution and description of a new species. J Nat Hist. 51 (5 - 6): 317 - 378. doi: 10.1080 / 00222933.2016.1271157.

Sharaf MR, Fisher BL, Al Dhafer HM, Polaszek A, Aldawood AS. 2018 b. Additions to the ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Oman: an updated list, new records and a description of two new species. Asian Myrm. 10: e 010004.1 - 38. doi: 10.20362 / am. 010004.

Sharaf MR, Salman S, Aldawood AS. 2023. Additions to the ant fauna of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with an updated list of the Saudi species. Ann Zool. 73: 195 - 214. doi: 10.3161 / 00034541 ANZ 2023.73.2.005.