The ant genus Carebara Westwood in the Arabian Peninsula (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

By

Sharaf, Mostafa
Aldawood, Abdulrahman Saad

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2013

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

357

Pages

67-83

Subjects

key , Myrmicinae , new species , Palearctic region , Saudi Arabia , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.357.5946

 

Abstract

The ant genus Carebara of the Arabian Peninsula is revised. Carebara abuhurayri Sharaf & Aldawood, 2011 is synonymized under Carebara arabica Collingwood & van Harten, 2001. Carebara arabica is redescribed and a Neotype is fixed based on a specimen collected from southwestern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A new species, C. fayrouzae sp. n. is described from Saudi Arabia based on queens, major and minor workers. Keys to major and minor workers of the two Arabian Carebara species are given.