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 Nylanderia jaegerskioeldi ( Mayr, 1904 ) ( Figures 15 and 16 ) Prenolepis ( Nylanderia ) jaegerskioeldi Mayr, 1904 , p. 8 (q, m.), Egypt . Palaearctic. Diagnosis Worker. Uniform brown in colour and easily distinguished by the occurrence of abundant scattered stiff setae distributed over the entire body. Figure 14. Lepisiota spinisquama . Worker. (A) Body in profile. (B) Head in full-face view, ANTWEB1041923, AntWeb.org (Michele Esposito). (C) Distribution map. Figure 15. Nylanderia jaegerskioeldi . Worker. (A) Body in profile. (B) Head in full-face view, ANTWEB1041928, AntWeb.org (Michele Esposito). (C) Distribution map. Figure 16. Nylanderia jaegerskioeldi . Male. (A) Body in profile. (B) Head in full-face view. (C) Gaster showing genitalia, ANTWEB1041926, AntWeb.org (Michele Esposito). Material examined. Thirteen sites: 1; 3; 4; 9; 12; 13; 15; 17; 24; 25; 27; 30; 31. Geographic range. A successful invasive species that is widely distributed in most countries of the Arabian Peninsula including Oman , Yemen ( Collingwood and Agosti 1996 ), the KSA ( Collingwood 1985 ; Sharaf et al . 2023 ), and the UAE ( Collingwood et al . 1997 , 2011 ). It was also reported from the Palaearctic and Afrotropical regions ( LaPolla et al . 2011 ). Ecology and biology. In Oman , N. jaegerskioeldi was found in leaf litter in a wide range of habitats including mango and irrigated date palm plantations ( Sharaf et al . 2018b ), and it is well established in the humid greenhouses of the Oman Botanic Gardens (near Muscat ). The same observation was documented by Gómez (2017) , who mentioned that the species prefers irrigated lawns with palm trees and public gardens which represent its typical habitat of the species.