The ant genus Carebara Westwood in the Arabian Peninsula (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Abstract. The ant genus Carebara of the Arabian Peninsula is revised. Carebara abuhurayri Sharaf & Aldawood, 2011 is synonymized under Carebara arabica Collingwood & van Harten, 2001. Carebara arabica is redescribed and a Neotype is fixed based on a specimen collected from southwestern Kingd...

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Autores principales: Sharaf, Mostafa R., Aldawood, Abdulrahman S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3867170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24363580
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.357.5946
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description Abstract. The ant genus Carebara of the Arabian Peninsula is revised. Carebara abuhurayri Sharaf & Aldawood, 2011 is synonymized under Carebara arabica Collingwood & van Harten, 2001. Carebara arabica is redescribed and a Neotype is fixed based on a specimen collected from southwestern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A new species, C. fayrouzae sp. n. is described from Saudi Arabia based on queens, major and minor workers. Keys to major and minor workers of the two Arabian Carebara species are given.
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spelling pubmed-38671702013-12-20 The ant genus Carebara Westwood in the Arabian Peninsula (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Sharaf, Mostafa R. Aldawood, Abdulrahman S. Zookeys Article Abstract. The ant genus Carebara of the Arabian Peninsula is revised. Carebara abuhurayri Sharaf & Aldawood, 2011 is synonymized under Carebara arabica Collingwood & van Harten, 2001. Carebara arabica is redescribed and a Neotype is fixed based on a specimen collected from southwestern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A new species, C. fayrouzae sp. n. is described from Saudi Arabia based on queens, major and minor workers. Keys to major and minor workers of the two Arabian Carebara species are given. Pensoft Publishers 2013-12-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3867170/ /pubmed/24363580 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.357.5946 Text en Mostafa R. Sharaf, Abdulrahman S. Aldawood http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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The ant genus Carebara Westwood in the Arabian Peninsula (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
title The ant genus Carebara Westwood in the Arabian Peninsula (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
title_full The ant genus Carebara Westwood in the Arabian Peninsula (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
title_fullStr The ant genus Carebara Westwood in the Arabian Peninsula (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
title_full_unstemmed The ant genus Carebara Westwood in the Arabian Peninsula (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
title_short The ant genus Carebara Westwood in the Arabian Peninsula (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3867170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24363580
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.357.5946
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