Sharaf, Mostafa Rezek

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
CURRENT POSITION: Professor, College of Food Sciences and Agriculture, King Saud University,Riyadh 11451, P. O. Box 2454, Riyadh.

E-MAIL ADRESS: antsharaf@gmail.com

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aA1mkMMAAAAJ&hl=en https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=21934806700 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg/ants/ants_of_egypt_2007/cover.htm https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mostafa_Sharaf3

RESEARCH INTEREST:

Large-scale discovery of new taxa and the analysis of diversity and distribution patterns of ants in poorly known areas of Arabian Peninsula.

Species-level taxonomic revisions.

PUBLICATIONS

 * [[Media:Sharaf, M.R., Al Dhafer, H.M. et al. 2018. Review of the ant genus Technomyrmex in the Arabian Peninsula.pdf|Sharaf, M.R., Al Dhafer, H.M., Aldawood, A.S. 2018. Review of the ant genus Technomyrmex Mayr, 1872 in the Arabian Peninsula (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 780: 35–59.]]


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


 * Aldawood, A.S. & Sharaf, M.R. 2009. Two ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) as new records to fauna of Saudi Arabia. Bulletin of Entomological Society of Egypt, 86: 143–147.


 * [[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]] doi:10.3897/zookeys.106.1390


 * [[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. Egyptian Academic Journal Biological Sciences. 3 (2): 37-42. PDF]] doi:10.21608/eajbsa.2010.15187


 * [[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]] doi:10.3897/zookeys.92.770


 * 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:Ants of Egypt.pdf|Orabi, G.M., Semida, F.M., Abdel-Dayem, M.S., Sharaf, M.R. & Zalat, S.M. 2011. Diversity patterns of ants along an elevation gradient at St. Catherine Protectorate, South Sinai, Egypt (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zoology in the Middle East. 54:101-112. PDF]] doi:10.1080/09397140.2011.10648882


 * Schawaller W.; Sharaf, M. R. & Aldawood, A. S. 2011. The tribe Cossyphodini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of the Arabian Peninsula, with notes on biology and ecology. Annales Zoologici. 61 (3):439–444. doi:10.3161/000345411X603300


 * [[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]]


 * [[Media:Sharaf, M.R. et al. 2013. Rawdhat Khorim Nature Preserve.pdf|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. PDF]]


 * [[Media:AntsofFarasan.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]] doi:10.1080/00379271.2011.10697738


 * 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. 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]] doi:10.3157/061.137.0113


 * [[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]]


 * Sharaf, M. R.; Collingwood, C. A.; Al Dhafer, H. M.; Al Mutairi, M. S.; Aldawood, S. A. 2015. New synonyms of two Arabian ants of the genus Monomorium Mayr, 1855 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). ZooKeys 505:51-58.


 * [[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]] doi:https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.108.930


 * [[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]] doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2004.1.4