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

 * Adlawood, A.S., Sharaf, M.R. and C.A. Collingwood. 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.


 * 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.


 * Bakr,R.F.A.; Fadl H. H. ; Badawy R. M.; and Sharaf M. R.(2006) Four new records of ants (Hymenoptera : Formicidae ) from Egypt .Egyptian Academic Society of Environmental Development, Vol.7, No.(2) : 29–39.


 * Bakr,R.F.A.; Fadl H. H. ; Badawy R. M.; and 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.


 * Fadl H. H. ; Bakr,R.F.A.; Badawy R. M.; and Sharaf M. R.(2006) New records of ants (Hymenoptera : Formicidae ) from Egypt . Egyptian Academic Society of Environmental Development, Vol.7, No.(2) : 99–108.


 * Fadl H.H. ; Bakr,R.F.A ; Badawy R.M. and 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.


 * 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.


 * 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.


 * Sharaf, M.R. 2009. A new ant species of the Technomyrmex albipes-group from Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Arabia 24: 211-216.


 * Sharaf, M. R. and Al-Zailaie, K. (2006) Ant fauna (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Farasan islands protectorate (Saudi Arabia). Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Egypt. 83, 2006 (61-68).


 * Sharaf, M. R. & Taylor, B. & Christiana Klingenberg (2009) Ants of the genus Solenopsis Westwood, 1840 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Egypt with description of the worker caste of S. cooperi Donisthorpe, 1947. Zootaxa (2004): 49-58.


 * Sharaf, M. R. & Collingwood, C. A. (in press) Technomyrmex montaseri n. sp., a new ant species of the T. gibbosus-group from Oman (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Fauna of Arabia 26


 * Sharaf, M. R. & Taylor, B. ( in Press) The queen of Monomorium dentatum Sharaf,2007 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).


 * Abd-El-Dayem, M. S. and Sharaf, M. R. (in preparation) Ants of Qatar (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).


 * Sharaf, M. R. & Taylor, B. (in preparation) The queen of Monomorium dentatum Sharaf,2007 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)