Tetramorium lanuginosum Mayr, 1870

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 : 79

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2022.838.1925
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7094515
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scientific name	Tetramorium lanuginosum Mayr, 1870
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Treatment

Tetramorium lanuginosum Mayr, 1870 View in CoL

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Tetramorium lanuginosum Mayr, 1870: 976 View in CoL (w) Indonesia (Java). Indomalaya.

Diagnosis

Color ranges from light brown to dark brown, gaster darker than body; anterior clypeal margin with small median notch; cephalic surface strongly reticulate-rugose; eyes with 8–10 ommatidia in longest row; frontal carinae well-marked; antennal scrobes well-defined; mesosoma convex in profile; metanotal groove indistinct; propodeal spines long and sharp; gaster smooth and shiny; body hairs long and profuse, bifid and simple.

Material examined

Holotype

INDONESIA • Java, Batavia ; CASENT0235202; NHMW.

Additional material

OMAN – Dhofar • 1 w; Dhalkout , 16.727° N, 53.249° E; alt. 623 m; 18 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA GoogleMaps • 2 w; Dhalkout Road, Aghbaroot Village ; 16.798° N, 53.554° E; alt. 1034 m; 18 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA GoogleMaps • 5 w; Ayn Dirbat ; 17.106° N, 54.453° E; alt. 207 m; 17 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA GoogleMaps • 1 w; Salalah ; 17.019° N, 54.065° E; alt. 9 m; 18 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA GoogleMaps • 5 w; Dhalkout ; 16.707° N, 53.251° E; alt. 34 m; 19 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA GoogleMaps • 1 w; same collection data as for preceding; CASENT0922857; CASC GoogleMaps • 1 w; Ayn Razat ; 17.124° N, 54.238° E; alt. 98 m; 20 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA GoogleMaps • 11 w; Dhalkout ; 16.693° N, 53.156° E; alt. 628 m; 18 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA GoogleMaps .

Ecological and biological notes

The diverse nesting and feeding habits presumably has allowed a successful worldwide distribution. Nests are built in moist soil under stones, in leaf litter ( Sharaf et al. 2018a), under trunks of dead palm trees, and in soil that is rich in organic matter ( Sharaf et al. 2017c). In Dhofar, workers are foraging on ground in a shaded area with dense plant cover of grasses and shrubs.

Geographic range

It is a successful tramp species, originally described from Indonesia which has widely dispersed into tropical and subtropical regions ( Bolton 1976; Wetterer 2010a; Hita Garcia & Fisher 2011; Agavekar et al. 2017). It has been previously collected from Oman ( Sharaf et al. 2018a), KSA ( Collingwood & Agosti 1996), the Socotra Archipelago ( Collingwood et al. 2004; Sharaf et al. 2017c), Egypt ( Sharaf 2006), and Palestine ( Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch 2009). This species is recorded for the first time in Dhofar.