Sharaf, Mostafa Rezek

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
NATIONALITY: Egyptian FORMER POSITION: Lecturer of Entomology at Biology Department, Teachers College, King Khaled University, Abha, PO Box 249, Saudi Arabia from 2003 till 2 July, 2008.

CURRENT POSITION: Assistant professor, College of Food Sciences and Agriculture, King Saud University, Riyadh.

CURRENT ADDRESS: College of Food Sciences and Agriculture, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, P. O. Box 2454, Kingdome of Saudi Arabia.

WEB SITES: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg/ants/ants_of_egypt_2007/cover.htm http://www.antbase.net/researchers/m-sharaf.html E-MAIL ADRESS: antsharaf@yahoo.com

RESEARCH INTEREST: Study of the Egyptian and Arabian ant faunas.

PUBLICATIONS

 * Abd-El-Dayem, M.S. & Sharaf, M.R. (in preparation) Ants of Qatar (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
 * [[Media:Aldawood & Sharaf 2011.pdf|Aldawood, S.A. & Sharaf, M.R. 2011. Monomorium dryhimi sp. n., a new ant species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the M. monomorium group from Saudi Arabia, with a key to the Arabian Monomorium monomorium-group. ZooKeys 106: 47-54. [2011-06-15] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Aldawood Sharaf Collingwood 2010.pdf|Aldawood, A.S., Sharaf, M.R. & Collingwood, C.A. 2010. Monomorium moathi sp. n., a new ant species from Yemen (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) related to the salomonis-group. Egypt. Acad. J. Biolog. Sci. 3 (2): 37-42. PDF]]
 * [[Media:Aldawood, Sharaf & Taylor 2011.pdf|Aldawood, A.S., Sharaf, M.R. & Taylor, B. 2011. First record of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood, 1840 from Saudi Arabia with a description of a new species, C. abuhurayri sp. n. ZooKeys 92: 61-69. PDF]]
 * Bakr,R.F.A., Fadl H.H., Badawy R.M. & Sharaf M.R. 2006. Four new records of ants (Hymenoptera : Formicidae) from Egypt. Egyptian Academic Society of Environmental Development 7(2): 29–39.
 * [[Media:Bakr et al 2006.pdf|Bakr,R.F.A., Fadl, H.H., Badawy, R.M. & Sharaf, M.R. 2007. Myrmecophile insects associated with some ant species (Hymenoptera : Formicidae) in Egypt. The second international conference of economic entomology (Entomological Society of Egypt), Cairo, Egypt, 8-11 December, (1):205-233. PDF]]
 * [[Media:Collingwood, Agosti, Sharaf, vanHarten2011.pdf|Collingwood, C.A., Agosti, D., Sharaf, M.R. & van Harten, A. 2011. Order Hymenoptera, family Formicidae. Arthropod fauna of the UAE, 4: 405-474]]


 * [[Media:El Hawagry.pdf|El-Hawagry, M.S., Khalil, M.W., Sharaf, M.R., Hassan, H.F. & Aldawood, A.S. 2013. A preliminary study on the insect fauna of Al-Baha Province, Saudi Arabia, with descriptions of two new species. ZooKeys 274, 1–88. PDF]]


 * Fadl, H.H., Bakr, R.F.A., Badawy, R.M. & Sharaf, M.R. 2006. New records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Egypt. Egyptian Academic Society of Environmental Development, 7(2): 99–108.


 * [[Media:Fadl et al 2007.pdf|Fadl H.H., Bakr,R.F.A., Badawy R.M. & Sharaf, M.R. 2007. Six new species of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae ) from Egypt. The second international conference of economic entomology (Entomological Society of Egypt), Cairo, Egypt, 8-11, December,(1): 235-249. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Zalat et al 2001.pdf|Mohamed, S., Zalat, S., Fadl, H., Gadalla, S. & Sharaf, M. 2001. Taxonomy of ant species collected by pitfall traps from Sinai and Delta regions, Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Natural History 3: 40-61. PDF]]
 * [[Media:Sharaf 2007.pdf|Sharaf, M.R. 2007. Monomorium dentatum sp.n., a new ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) related to the fossulatum-group from Egypt. Zoology in the Middle East (41):93-98. PDF]]
 * [[Media:Sharaf 2009.pdf|Sharaf, M.R. 2009. A new ant species of the Technomyrmex albipes-group from Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Arabia 24: 211-216. PDF]]


 * Sharaf, M. R. & Al-Zailaie, K. 2006. Ant fauna (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Farasan islands protectorate (Saudi Arabia). Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Egypt 83: 61-68.
 * [[Media:Sharaf - aldawood 2011.pdf|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. PDF]]
 * Sharaf, M.R. & 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. [e49485. doi 10.1371/journal.pone.0049485.]
 * [[Media:Sharaf et al 2012.pdf| Sharaf, M.R. & Aldawood, S.A. 2012. Aenictus arabicus Sharaf & Aldawood, sp. n. Pp. 42-45 in: Sharaf, M.R., Aldawood, S.A. & El-Hawagry, M.S. 2012. First record of the ant subfamily Aenictinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Saudi Arabia, with the description of a new species. ZooKeys 228:39-49. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Sharaf, Aldawood & ElHawagry 2012.pdf|Sharaf, M.R., Aldawood, S.A. & ElHawagry, M.S. 2012a. A new ant species of the genus Tapinoma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Saudi Arabia with a key to the Arabian species. ZooKeys 212, 35-43. PDF]]
 * [[Media:Sharaf et al 2012.pdf|Sharaf, M.R., Aldawood, A.S. & El-Hawagry, M.S. 2012b. First record of the ant subfamily Aenictinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Saudi Arabia, with the description of a new species. ZooKeys 228: 39–49 (doi: 10.3897/zookeys.228.3559) PDF]]
 * [[Media:Sharaf, Aldawood & Taylor 2011.pdf|Sharaf, M.R., Aldawood, S.A. & Taylor, B. 2011. The formicine ant genus Plagiolepis Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Arabian Peninsula, with description of two new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 137: 203-215. [2011-03] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Sharaf, Aldawood & Taylor 2012.pdf|Sharaf, M.R., Aldawood, A.S. & Taylor, B. 2012. A new ant species of the genus Tetramorium Mayr, 1855 from Saudi Arabia, with a revised key to the Arabian species. PloS ONE 7(2): e30811. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030811. PDF]]
 * [[Media:Sharaf Collingwood & Aldawood 2011.pdf|Sharaf, M.R., Collingwood, C.A. & Aldawood, S.A. 2011. Technomyrmex montaseri sp. n., a new ant species of the T. gibbosus-group from Oman (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) with a key to the Technomyrmex species of the Arabian Peninsula. ZooKeys 108: 11-19. [2011-06-17] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Sharaf & Taylor 2009.pdf|Sharaf, M.R. & Taylor, B. 2009. The queen of Monomorium dentatum Sharaf, 2007 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 45: 95-96. [2010-11-30] PDF]]
 * [[Media:Klingenberg et al 2009.pdf|Sharaf, M.R., Taylor, B. & Klingenberg, C. 2009. Ants of the genus Solenopsis Westwood, 1840 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Egypt with a description of the worker castes of S. cooperi Donisthorpe, 1947. Zootaxa 2004: 49-58. PDf]]