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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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and
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are the most abundant ones. However,
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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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1997
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,
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). These observations agree with
<bibRefCitation id="EFC83B852C609746FC1E52658BB4FCD2" author="Collingwood C. A. &amp; Pohl H. &amp; Gusten R. &amp; Wranik W. &amp; Harten A." box="[950,1261,769,795]" journalOrPublisher="Fauna of Arabia" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" pagination="473 - 495" part="20" refString="Collingwood C. A., Pohl H., Gusten R., Wranik W. &amp; Harten A. 2004. The ants (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Socotra Archipelago. Fauna of Arabia 20: 473 - 495." title="The ants (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Socotra Archipelago" type="journal article" year="2004">
Collingwood
<emphasis id="B92D9A662C609746FBF352668BC1FCD2" box="[1115,1176,769,795]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">et al.</emphasis>
(2004)
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and Sharaf
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(in press) on Socotra, where
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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 (
<bibRefCitation id="EFC83B852C609746FEDF520E8D54FC4C" author="Sharaf M. R." box="[375,525,874,901]" journalOrPublisher="Ain Shams University, Faculty of Science, Entomology Department, Cairo [unpublished thesis]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" refString="Sharaf M. R. 2006. Taxonomic and Ecological Studies on Family Formicidae (Order: Hymenoptera) in Egypt including some Protectorates with a Study of some Insect Fauna associated with Ant Species. Ain Shams University, Faculty of Science, Entomology Department, Cairo [unpublished thesis]." title="Taxonomic and Ecological Studies on Family Formicidae (Order: Hymenoptera) in Egypt including some Protectorates with a Study of some Insect Fauna associated with Ant Species" type="book" year="2006">Sharaf 2006</bibRefCitation>
). 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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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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and
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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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and
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exists especially when using molecular techniques.
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<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
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<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>
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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.
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