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Solenopsis saudiensis
| Solenopsis saudiensis | |
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| Scientific classification (junior synonym of Solenopsis abdita) | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Solenopsidini |
| Genus: | Solenopsis |
| Species: | Solenopsis saudiensis Sharaf & Aldawood, 2011
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This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Solenopsis abdita.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- saudiensis. Solenopsis saudiensis Sharaf & Aldawood, 2011: 476, figs. 1-5 (w.) SAUDI ARABIA.
- Status as species: Sharaf & Aldawood, 2012: 13; Sharaf, Abdel-Dayem, et al. 2013: 574; Borowiec, L. 2014: 159, Rasool et al., 2020: 184.
- Junior synonym of abdita: Sharaf et al., 2020: 4.
References
- Rasool, K.G., Husain, M., Salman, S., Tufail, M., Sukirno, S., Aldawood, A.S. 2020. DNA barcoding of the fire ant genus Solenopsis Westwood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Riyadh region, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences 27: 184–188 (doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2019.06.018).
- Sharaf, M. R.; Abdel-Dayem, M. S.; Al Dhafer, H. M.; Aldawood, S. A. 2013. The ants (Hymenoptera:formicidae) of Rawdhat Khorim Nature Preserve, Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species of the genus Tetramorium Mayr. Zootaxa 3709:565-580.
- Sharaf, M. R.; Aldawood, S. A. 2011. First occurrence of Solenopsis Westwood 1840 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species S. saudiensis n. sp. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (n.s.) 47:474-479.
- Sharaf, M.R. and Aldawood, A.S. 2012. Ants of the genus Solenopsis Westwood 1840 in the Arabian Peninsula with description of a new species, Solenopsis elhawagryi. PloS ONE. 7(11):21 pp. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049485
- Sharaf, M.R., Gotzek, D., Guénard, B., Fisher, B.L., Aldawood, A.S., Al Dhafer, H.M., Mohamed, A.A. 2020. Molecular phylogenetic analysis and morphological reassessments of thief ants identify a new potential case of biological invasions. Scientific Reports 10, 12040 (doi:10.1038/s41598-020-69029-4).
- Sharaf, M.R., Salman, S., Aldawood, A.S. 2015. First description of the queen of the ant Solenopsis saudiensis Sharaf & Aldawood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Saudi Arabia. Zoology in the Middle East, 61(1), 50-54 (doi:10.1080/09397140.2014.985872).