Filling gaps in global myrmecology: ants of the Kingdom of Bahrain (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Author Sharaf, Mostafa R. Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; & Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA; Author Wetterer, James K. Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, FL, USA; Author Mohamed, AbdulAziz M. A. Agriculture Affairs, Ministry of Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture, Kingdom of Bahrain; Author Georgiadis, Christos Section of Zoology-Marine Biology and Zoological Museum, Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece; Author Nasser, Mohamed G. Research Laboratory of Biogeography and Wildlife Parasitology (RLBWP), Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbassia, Egypt Author Aldawood, Abdulrahman S. Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; text Journal of Natural History 2024 2024-09-16 58 41 - 44 1705 1786 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2388791 journal article 305810 10.1080/00222933.2024.2388791 7328f914-b6fd-4df6-be55-0e3ae7a633fa 1464-5262 14241324 18D05DD2- 4B64-4A87-8389-582D5714411C
Table 3. Presumed native ant species of Bahrain.
SpeciesType localityOriginPeninsular records
Peninsular records: S = Saudi Arabia, O = Oman, Y = Yemen, U = United Arab Emirates, Q = Qatar, K = Kuwait.
Tapinoma simrothiItalyPalaearcticSOYUQK
Camponotus adenensisYemenAfrotropicS-YU–
Camponotus fellahEgypt, Syria, EritreaPalaearcticSOYU-K
Cataglyphis laeviorAlgeriaPalaearcticSO-U-K
Cataglyphis lividaIsraelPalaearcticSOYUQK
Lepisiota bahrainensis sp. n.BahrainEndemic– –
Lepisiota carbonariaSomaliaAfrotropicSOY –
Lepisiota dolabellaeTurkeyPalaearcticS – –
Lepisiota frauenfeldi truncateTunisiaPalaearctic– –
Lepisiota spinisquamaKazakhstanPalaearcticSOYU–
Nylanderia jaegerskioeldiEgyptPalaearcticSOYU–
Plagiolepis boltoniKSAPalaearcticSO – -
Cardiocondyla israelicaEgyptPalaearctic– –
Cardiocondyla persianaIranPalaearctic– –
Cardiocondyla rugulosaYemenAfrotropic–Y –
Messor ebeninusSyriaPalaearcticSOYU-K
Messor picturatusAlgeriaPalaearcticS – -K
Monomorium abeilleiIsraelPalaearcticSOYUQK
Monomorium areniphilumTunisiaPalaearcticSOYUQK
Monomorium exiguumEthiopiaAfrotropicSOYU–
Monomorium sahlbergiIsraelPalaearcticSOYU–
Monomorium subopacumPortugalPalaearcticSOYUQ-
Tetramorium caespitumSwedenPalaearcticS – –
Tetramorium syriacumSyriaPalaearcticS – –
Trichomyrmex mayriIndiaPalaearctic/ Afrotropic/OrientalSOYUQ-
Brachyponera sennaarensisSudanPalaearctic/AfrotropicSOYUQK