Lepisiota gracilicornis

Lepisiota gracilicornis (Forel, 1892) (Fig. 12 A–C) Acantholepis gracilicornis Forel, 1892: 42 (diagnosis in key) (w.) Yemen. Afrotropic. Diagnosis. Worker. This species is easily diagnosed from other members of the Arabian Lepisiota by the distinctly long antennae (SI 175–195) and legs, the smooth and shining body surfaces, and the bare mesosoma. Material examined. Qatar, Doha, 08.iii.2005, 25°18’N, 51°25’E, (M.S. Abdel–Dayem leg.), 31w; Doha, 02.iv.2005, 25°18’N, 51°25’E, 6 w, 3 q, 6 m, (KSMA). Geographic distribution. Afrotropical species known from west and east Africa: Senegal, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia; Levant: Egypt, Israel, Jordan (Sharaf 2006, Ionescu and Eyer 2016, Borowiec and Salata 2020); and the Arabian Peninsula: KSA (Collingwood 1985), UAE (Collingwood et al. 2011), Oman (Collingwood and Agosti 1996, Sharaf et al. 2018), Yemen (Sharaf et al. 2020 a). This species is a new record for Qatar.
Published as part of Sharaf, Mostafa R., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Mohamed, Amr A., Fisher, Brian L. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2020, A Preliminary Synopsis of the Ant Fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Qatar with Remarks on the Zoogeography, pp. 533-560 in Annales Zoologici 70 (4) on page 543, DOI: 10.3161/00034541anz2020.70.4.005, http://zenodo.org/record/4433537
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