Nylanderia jaegerskioeldi

Nylanderia jaegerskioeldi (Mayr, 1904) Fig. 22 Prenolepis (Nylanderia) jaegerskioeldi Mayr, 1904: 8 (w) Egypt. Palearctic. Diagnosis Color yellow-brown; body covered with abundant stiff setae and dense pubescence; metanotal area compact; propodeum lower than mesonotum, with short dorsal face and longer declivity; declivitous face smooth and shining, without pubescence. Material examined OMAN – Dhofar • 2 m; Salalah; 17.019° N, 54.065° E; alt. 9 m; 18 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 4 w; Dhalkout; 16.707° N, 53.251° E; alt. 34 m; 19 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 2 w; Ayn Dirbat; 17.106° N, 54.453° E; alt. 207 m; 17 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA. Ecological and biological notes Nylanderia jaegerskioeldi was collected nesting in moist soil under a rock. Several workers were collected from leaf litter next to the trees of Vachellia and Ficus L. (Moraceae Gaudich.). Geographic range Originally described from Egypt, Nylanderia jaegerskioeldi is considered a successful tramp species. LaPolla et al. (2011) proposed an African origin for this species, but it is widely distributed in the Arabian Peninsula (Collingwood 1985; Collingwood & Agosti 1996; Collingwood et al. 1997, 2011), the Palearctic (Espadaler & Bernal 2003; Gómez & Espadaler 2006; Kiran & Kaaman 2012; Borowiec & Salata 2012; Taheri & Reyes-López 2018; Gómez 2017; Rad et al. 2018), and the Afrotropical Region (LaPolla et al. 2011). This species is reported here for the first time in Dhofar.
Published as part of Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, Amr A. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2022, Faunal composition, diversity, and distribution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Dhofar Governorate, Oman, with updated list of the Omani species and remarks on zoogeography, pp. 1-106 in European Journal of Taxonomy 838 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.838.1925, http://zenodo.org/record/7094306
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