The ant genus Carebara Westwood in the Arabian Peninsula (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
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The ant genus Carebara Westwood in the Arabian Peninsula (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
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 mi...
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عنوان ژورنال: ZooKeys
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1313-2970,1313-2989
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.357.5946