Miscellaneous Ants from Europe & the Middle East

Notes

Species are shown on linked pages. These are in one of three formats - A = main "Ants of (sub-Saharan) Africa" page; E = "Ants of Egypt" website page; M = Miscellaneous ants pages.

General files

Separation of former single genus Leptothorax

Genus Lasius Fabricius

An attempt to analyze the Lepisiota frauenfeldi complex

List of species from Egypt - omitting those found in sub-Saharan Africa

Specimens collected by Mostafa Sharaf and Mike James; also from Egypt/Israel courtesy of Joshua Kugler & Armin Ionescu (Tel Aviv University).

The links are to pages on the website http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg/ants/ants_of_egypt_2007/cover.htm

• DOLICHODERINAE
• Tapinoma erraticum (Latreille)
• Tapinoma simrothi Krausse
• FORMICINAE
• Camponotus (Myrmosericus) cruentatus (Latreille)
• Camponotus (Myrmosericus) micans (Nylander)
• Camponotus (Myrmotrema) rhamses Santschi
• Camponotus (Tanemyrmex) aegyptiacus Emery
• Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) cognatocompressus (Forel)
• Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) fellah (Emery) - specimens from Israel
• Cataglyphis adenensis (Forel) - specimens from Kuwait
• Cataglyphis agostii Sharaf (in preparation)
• Cataglyphis bombycinus Roger - specimens also from Israel
• Cataglyphis desertorum (Forel) - specimens from Tunisia (T Lackner)
• Cataglyphis ruber (Forel) - also specimens from Kuwait
• Cataglyphis franchettii (Menozzi) new status
• Cataglyphis lividus (André)
• Cataglyphis holgerseni Collingwood & Agosti
• Cataglyphis niger (André)
• Cataglyphis savignyi (Dufour)
• Cataglyphis viaticus (Fabricius) - also specimens from Morocco (courtesy of A Lenoir)
• Lepisiota aegyptiaca (Finzi) new status
• Lepisiota syriaca (André) - specimens from Israel
• Paratrechina jaegerskioeldi (Mayr)
• Paratrechina vividula (Nylander)
• Plagiolepis ancyrensis (Santschi)
• Plagiolepis maura Santschi
• Plagiolepis pallescens (Forel)
• Plagiolepis ??schmitzii
• Plagiolepis pygmaea (Latreille)
• Polyrhachis lacteipennis F Smith variant - specimens from Israel
• MYRMICINAE
• Aphaenogaster splendida (Roger)
• Cardiocondyla emeryi Forel
• Cardiocondyla mauritanica (Forel)
• Cardiocondyla obscurior (Wheeler)
• Cardiocondyla sahlbergi (Forel) - Sharaf photo
• Cardiocondyla ulianini Emery - specimens from Iran
• Crematogaster auberti Emery - Sharaf photo
• Crematogaster antaris (Forel)
• Crematogaster inermis Mayr
• Crematogaster laestrygon Emery - specimens from Israel
• Messor aegyptiacus (Emery) - Sharaf photo
• Messor arenarius (Fabricius) - Sharaf photo
• Messor ebeninus (Forel) - specimens from Israel
• Messor foreli (Santschi) - Sharaf photo
• Messor medioruber (Forel) - Sharaf photo
• Messor niloticus Santschi - Sharaf photo
• Messor rugosus (André) - specimens from Kuwait and a Sharaf photo
• Monomorium abeillei André
• Monomorium atomum Forel
• Monomorium bodenheimeri Menozzi
• Monomorium clavicorne André - Sharaf photo
• Monomorium dentatum Sharaf
• Monomorium new sp. in barbatulum-group
• Monomorium nitidiventre Emery - specimen from Iran
• Monomorium phoenicium (Emery)
• Monomorium pullulum (Santschi) new status
• Monomorium venustum (F Smith) - Sharaf photo
• Solenopsis cooperi Donisthorpe - first examples of workers
• Tetramorium depressiceps (Menozzi) - Sharaf photos
• Tetramorium lanuginosum Mayr
• Tetramorium sahlbergi (Forel) - Sharaf photos
• Tetramorium salwae Mohamed et al - Sharaf photos
• Tetramorium schmidti (Forel)
• Tetramorium semilaeve (André)
• PONERINAE
• Hypoponera ragusai (Emery) - specimens from Israel
• Pachycondyla (Brachyponera) sennaarensis (Mayr) - specimens from Sudan and Iran
• PSEUDOMYRMECINAE
• Tetraponera erythraea (Emery) - Sharaf photos

Species from other countries not in the main "Ants of Africa" or "Ants of Egypt" websites

Collectors
Species from Iran collected by Omid Paknia and colleagues.
Species from Israel and elsewhere kindly provided by the University of Tel Aviv, Prof. Joshua Kugler & Armin Ionescu.
Species from Kuwait, Turkey and the Canary Islands collected by David King.

• DORYLINAE
• Dorylus (Dorylus) affinis Shuckard - Israel
• Dorylus (Typhlopone) fulvus (Westwood) juvenculus Shuckard - Israel
• Dorylus (Typhlopone) fulvus (Westwood) oraniensis Lucas - Tunisia
• FORMICIDAE
• Cataglyphis aenescens (Nylander) - Iran
• Cataglyphis viaticus (Fabricius) - Morocco
• Lasius himalayanus Bingham - Iran
• Lasius neglectus Van Loon et al OR Lasius turcicus (Santschi) Iran
• Plagiolepis schmitzii (Forel) - Madeira
• MYRMICINAE
• Cardiocondyla ulianini Emery - specimens from Iran
• Crematogaster (Cr.) afghanica ? Pisarski - Iran
• Crematogaster (Cr.) subdentata Mayr - Iran
• Leptothorax acervorum (Fabricius) - Iran
• Leptothorax ? pallidus Collingwood or L. arpini/satunini Tarbinski ?? - Iran
• Messor concolor (Emery) - Iran
• Messor meridionalis (André) - Israel
• Messor nahali Thomé & Thomé - Israel
• Messor wasmanni (Krausse) - Italy
• Pheidole (Ceratopheidole) smythiesii Forel - minors only - Iran
• Tetramorium caespitum (Linnaeus) - Iran

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