Meranoplus mosalahi Sharaf, 2019

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, European Journal of Taxonomy 838 (1), pp. 1-106 : 52-55

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2022.838.1925

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D495BCAE-9E03-4424-A01B-87F1CEB16B9C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7102236

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1461EC42-FFA3-FF8E-FDD7-01AE12E4FD5F

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Meranoplus mosalahi Sharaf, 2019
status

 

Meranoplus mosalahi Sharaf, 2019 View in CoL

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Meranoplus mosalahi Sharaf, 2019 in Sharaf & Aldawood 2019: 6 (w) Oman. Afrotropic.

Diagnosis

Head, and gaster brown, antennae, mesosoma, petiole, and postpetiole pale brown, legs yellow; anterior clypeal margin feebly concave or straight with one pair of reduced teeth; scrobe narrowly visible in full-face view; cephalic surface to posterior level of eyes with irregular interrupted longitudinal rugae; cephalic surface with distinct fine ground sculpture between rugae; anterior face of petiolar node smooth; posterior face feebly sculptured with about five longitudinal rugae.

Material examined

OMAN – Dhofar • w, holotype; Dhalkout ; 16.707° N, 53.251° E; alt. 34 m; 19 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; CASENT0845901; KSMA GoogleMaps 12 w, paratypes; same collection data as for holotype; KSMA GoogleMaps

1 aberrant worker with reduced postpetiole; same collection data as for holotype; KSMA GoogleMaps 1 w; same collection data as for holotype; WMLC GoogleMaps 1 w; same collection data as for holotype; CASENT0922861; CASC GoogleMaps 3 w; Agdaroot ; 17.089° N, 54.442° E; 18 Nov. 2017; SW; A. Mostafa leg.; KSMA GoogleMaps .

Ecological and biological notes

Meranoplus mosalahi inhabits shaded areas in Dhalkoout forests with ample small shrubs and grasses. Workers of this species are slow moving and forage on the ground where the soil is moderately moist (Sharaf & Aldawood 2019).

Geographic range

Meranoplus mosalahi is endemic to Oman.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

SubOrder

Apocrita

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Meranoplus

Loc

Meranoplus mosalahi Sharaf, 2019

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, Amr A. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S. 2022
2022
Loc

Meranoplus mosalahi

Sharaf 2019
2019
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