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Geographic distributions of the
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species in the Arabian Peninsula are shown in
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Among the nine species of the genus
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reported from the Arabian Peninsula,
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<emphasis id="B92D9A662C609746FB4B53118A1BFD47" box="[1251,1346,629,654]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">T. mayri</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B92D9A662C609746FF1553FC8E0AFD78" box="[189,339,663,689]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">T. destructor</emphasis>
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are the most abundant ones. However,
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<emphasis id="B92D9A662C609746FCBE53FC8C2DFD78" box="[790,884,664,689]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">T. mayri</emphasis>
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is the most successfully distributed species, since it has the ability to establish itself in a broad range of habitats, including desert and agricultural, wild and urban, pristine and disturbed sites (
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;
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;
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Collingwood
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<emphasis id="B92D9A662C609746FEC952668EC6FCD2" box="[353,415,769,795]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">et al.</emphasis>
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1997
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,
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). These observations agree with
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Collingwood
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<emphasis id="B92D9A662C609746FBF352668BC1FCD2" box="[1115,1176,769,795]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">et al.</emphasis>
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(2004)
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and Sharaf
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(in press) on Socotra, where
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<emphasis id="B92D9A662C609746FDEA52418DF9FCF7" box="[578,672,805,830]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">T. mayri</emphasis>
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has a broad distributional range on the Archipelago, occurring in different habitats. The species is also recorded from different localities in Egypt, including the Sinai and Nile Delta (
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). The two species are recorded here for the first time from Qatar, which is not surprising, especially under the intensive urbanization that has occurred recently (UNCSD 2004).
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<emphasis id="B92D9A662C609746FF1552AB8EEDFC20" box="[189,436,975,1001]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Trichomyrmex mayri</emphasis>
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is most similar to
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in all morphological characters except the colour, which is uniform dark brown in the former and yellow to brown yellow with a dark brown gaster in the latter. Although the separation of species based on colour is a feeble character, especially for genera that having distinct colour variation, like
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<emphasis id="B92D9A662C609746FDDC555D8C46FB9A" box="[628,799,1081,1107]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Trichomyrmex</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName id="4C593DF72C609746FCF2555E8CA2FB9A" box="[858,1019,1082,1107]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Monomorium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
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<emphasis id="B92D9A662C609746FCF2555E8CA2FB9A" box="[858,1019,1082,1107]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Monomorium</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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, it is observed that the colour is consistent for the studied material of both species in the Arabian Peninsula; therefore, we treat both as valid species. However, it is likely that a future probability for synonymizing
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<taxonomicName id="4C593DF72C609746FBDE55E48BE5FB50" box="[1142,1212,1152,1177]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Trichomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mayri">
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<emphasis id="B92D9A662C609746FBDE55E48BE5FB50" box="[1142,1212,1152,1177]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">mayri</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
|
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and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C593DF72C609746FB54551B8A2EFB50" box="[1276,1399,1151,1177]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Trichomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="destructor">
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||
<emphasis id="B92D9A662C609746FB54551B8A2EFB50" box="[1276,1399,1151,1177]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">destructor</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
exists especially when using molecular techniques.
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C593DF72C609746FC8A55C68B04FB75" box="[802,1117,1186,1212]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Trichomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="abyssinicus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B92D9A662C609746FC8A55C68B04FB75" box="[802,1117,1186,1212]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Trichomyrmex abyssinicus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is reported here for the first time from Saudi Arabia. The newly described species
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C593DF72C609746FCC555A28B57FB29" box="[877,1038,1222,1248]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Trichomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="almosayari" status="sp. nov.">
|
||
<emphasis id="B92D9A662C609746FCC555A28B57FB29" box="[877,1038,1222,1248]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">T. almosayari</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A21E271D2C609746FBBC55A28B34FB29" box="[1044,1133,1222,1248]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C593DF72C609746FB0C55A28A41FB29" box="[1188,1304,1222,1248]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Trichomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="shakeri" status="sp. nov.">
|
||
<emphasis id="B92D9A662C609746FB0C55A28A41FB29" box="[1188,1304,1222,1248]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">T. shakeri</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A21E271D2C609746FAB755A28A2EFB29" box="[1311,1399,1222,1248]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
appear to be restricted to Riyadh Province (Central region). Relatively few specimens of the three species have been collected despite intensive efforts using a variety of sampling methods. All specimens were collected using pitfall traps.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
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