Filling gaps in global myrmecology: ants of the Kingdom of Bahrain (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Author Sharaf, Mostafa R. Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; & Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA; Author Wetterer, James K. Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, FL, USA; Author Mohamed, AbdulAziz M. A. Agriculture Affairs, Ministry of Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture, Kingdom of Bahrain; Author Georgiadis, Christos Section of Zoology-Marine Biology and Zoological Museum, Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece; Author Nasser, Mohamed G. Research Laboratory of Biogeography and Wildlife Parasitology (RLBWP), Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbassia, Egypt Author Aldawood, Abdulrahman S. Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; text Journal of Natural History 2024 2024-09-16 58 41 - 44 1705 1786 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2388791 journal article 10.1080/00222933.2024.2388791 1464-5262 14241324 Cataglyphis livida (André, 1881) ( Figure 9 ) Myrmecocystus albicans var. lividus André, 1881a , p. 58 (in text) (w.) Israel . Palaearctic. Diagnosis Worker. Uniform yellow; petiole with a flat dorsal surface sloping anteriorly; mesonotum sides, propodeum, and coxae covered with pale appressed pubescence; body shining. Material examined. One site: 11. Geographic range. The geographic distribution in the Palaearctic region is not clear due to the mislabelling of the type material of C. livida and C. viaticoides , which led to confusion ( Salata et al . 2021 ). This species has a wide distribution on the Arabian Peninsula ( Collingwood 1985 ; Collingwood and Agosti 1996 ; Collingwood et al . 2011 ). Its occurrence in Egypt , Israel , Syria , and Antalya Province in Turkey is also confirmed. Ecology and biology. Nests were found next to Acacia gerrardii Benth in the Riyadh Province ( KSA ) with two population peaks during spring and June ( Sharaf and Aldawood 2013 ).