Order Hymenoptera, family Formicidae Author Cedric A. Collingwood Author Donat Agosti Author Mostafa R. Sharaf Author Antonius van Harten text Arthropod fauna of the UAE 2011 2011-05-31 4 1 70 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.1168586 f4c97e0e-fc3f-41a8-8ab5-b07a304f1848 1168586 Messor ebeninus Santschi, 1927 Distribution: Middle East species, described from Lebanon. First recorded from the UAE (Ras Ghanada) by Tigar & Collingwood ( 1993 ) . No new records. Known from Egypt and in the Arabian Peninsula from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman and Yemen.