An update to the taxonomy and distribution of the Arabian Tapinoma Foerster, 1850 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with an illustrated key and remarks on habitats Author Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud M https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6276-1740 Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia & Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt mseleem@ksu.edu.sa Author Al Dhafer, Hathal Mohammed https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4911-2332 King Saud University, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia & Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Author Aldawood, Abdulrahman S Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Author Sharaf, Mostafa R Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia text Biodiversity Data Journal 2021 2021-05-27 9 66058 66058 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e66058 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e66058 1314-2828-9-e66058 588BD02F1BEC54D2BE2F6942264ED2FE Tapinoma wilsoni Sharaf & Aldawood, 2012 Tapinoma wilsoni Sharaf & Aldawood, 2012c: 38, figs. 1-3 (w.) Saudi Arabia. Afrotropic. Tapinoma wilsoni Sharaf & Aldawood, 2012c: 38, figs. 1-3 (w.) Saudi Arabia. Afrotropic. Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: M.R. Sharaf ; individualCount: 1 ; sex: worker ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma wilsoni; Location : country: Saudi Arabia ; locality: Dhi Ayn Archaeological Village ; verbatimElevation: 741 m ; decimalLatitude: 19.9297 ; decimalLongitude: 41.4427 ; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification : identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf ; dateIdentified: 2012; Event : samplingProtocol: Hand picking ; eventDate: 2011-05-15 ; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: M.R. Sharaf ; individualCount: 29 ; sex: worker ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma wilsoni; Location : country: Saudi Arabia ; locality: Dhi Ayn Archaeological Village ; verbatimElevation: 741 m ; decimalLatitude: 19.9297 ; decimalLongitude: 41.4427 ; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification : identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf ; dateIdentified: 2012; Event : samplingProtocol: Hand picking ; eventDate: 2011-05-15 ; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: A. Polaszek ; individualCount: 3 ; sex: worker ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma wilsoni; Location : country: Saudi Arabia ; locality: Dhi Ayn Archaeological Village ; verbatimElevation: 741 m ; decimalLatitude: 19.9297 ; decimalLongitude: 41.4427 ; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification : identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf ; dateIdentified: 2015; Event : samplingProtocol: Yellow pan trap ; eventDate: 2015-04-11 ; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: F.S. Esteves ; individualCount: 1 ; sex: queen ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma wilsoni; Location : country: Saudi Arabia ; locality: Dhi Ayn Archaeological Village ; verbatimElevation: 735 m ; decimalLatitude: 19.9297 ; decimalLongitude: 41.4427 ; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification : identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf ; dateIdentified: 2012; Event : samplingProtocol: none specified ; eventDate: 2011-09-23 ; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: CASC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: M.R. Sharaf ; individualCount: 4 ; sex: worker ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon : scientificName: Tapinoma wilsoni; Location : country: Saudi Arabia ; locality: Dhi Ayn Archaeological Village ; verbatimElevation: 728 m ; decimalLatitude: 19.9297 ; decimalLongitude: 41.4427 ; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification : identifiedBy: Mostafa R. Sharaf ; dateIdentified: 2016; Event : samplingProtocol: Hand picking ; eventDate: 2016-04-11 ; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: KSMA; datasetName: Ants; ownerInstitutionCode: KSU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Diagnosis Worker. Head in full-face view longer than broad with shallowly convex posterior margin and sides; anterior clypeal margin broadly and distinctly concave; scapes, in full-face view, surpass posterior margin of head by about 1/6 of its length; all funicular segments distinctly longer than broad (Fig. 4 c ); metanotal groove indistinct; propodeum in profile with the transition from dorsum to declivity sharply defined, the declivity concave and the angle with a raised apex (Fig. 4 a ); colour yellow to brown-yellow, antennae and legs uniform yellow (Fig. 4 a , b ). Previous records SA : Al Bahah, Dhi Ayn Archaeological Village, 19.9297°N , 41.4427°E , 741 m alt. ( Sharaf et al. 2012 ) Distribution Saudi Arabia. Ecology Tapinoma wilsoni was found foraging on the ground surface of a Banana farm in Dhi Ayn Archeological Village, a semi-isolated area that is completely surrounded by high mountains of the Al Sarawat Mountains (KSA) and the soil is clay and humid ( Sharaf et al. 2012 ). Nothing is known about the biology of the species. The species is co-existing with the ant species Carebara arabica (Collingwood & van Harten, 2011), Tetramorium sericeiventre Emery, 1877, Pheidole minuscula Bernard, 1953, Trichomyrmex destructor (Jerdon, 1851) and Monomorium exiguum Forel, 1894.