Tetramorium shirlae

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Tetramorium shirlae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Tetramorium
Species: T. shirlae
Binomial name
Tetramorium shirlae
Sharaf, 2007

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Nothing is known about the biology of Tetramorium shirlae.

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 30.583333° to 18.216389°.

   
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: Saudi Arabia (type locality).
Palaearctic Region: Egypt.

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.
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Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.
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Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • shirlae. Tetramorium shirlae Sharaf, in Fadl et al. 2007: 243, figs. 17, 18 (w.) SAUDI ARABIA.

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

Worker

HL: 1.7; HL: 0.56; HW: 0.48; SL: 0.39; SI: 81.25; EL: 0.12; PL: 0.21; PW: 0.15; PPL: 0.14; PPW: 0.19; CI: 85.7

Bicoloured species, head, alitrunk, petiole and postpetiole pale brown, antennae and legs yellow, gaster dark brown or blackish brown.

Head longer than broad, frontal carinae long and well developed reaching back about two thirds of head length; strong and longitudinal striations extending in front and behind eyes and between frontal carinae; antennae 12 segments with dense pubescence and short hairs; mandibles with feeble longitudinal striation; armed with 5 brown teeth, the terminal tooth in the largest, the third is smaller than the fourth, the latter and the fifth nearly equal. The whole mandibles surface with several long hairs; median portion of clypeus with 3 strong, longitudinal carinae; occiput weakly concave with four pairs of hairs. Alitrunk, in lateral view, without distinct sutures; meso- and metapleura with well developed granulate sculptures; propodeal spines short and acute with a broad base; pronotal anterior corners, in dorsal view, sharply angulate; pronotum dorsum with strong reticulate sculptures while mesonotum with longitudinal sculptures; pronotum with 2 pairs of stiff hairs, mesonotum with 5 pairs of hairs; propodeum bare. Petiole longer than broad, Postpetiole nearly as long as broad, each faintly sculptured and having 2 pairs of hairs. Gaster smooth and shining, anterior and posterior parts of the first gastral tergites with several pairs of hairs while the middle part bare.

Type Material

Wadi Abha, Abha city, Saudi Arabia.

Etymology

This species is named after Mrs. Shirley Judd, wife of Dr. Stephen Judd, Head of Zoology department, Liverpool National Museum, UK.

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Bakr R. F. A., H. H. Fadl, R. M. Badawy, and M. R. Sharaf. 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.
  • Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
  • Fadl H., R. F. Bakr, and R. M. Badawy. 2007. Six new species of ants (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Egypt. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of the Entomological Society of Egypt 2: 235-249.
  • Fadl, H., R. F. Bakr, M. Bawady, and M. R. Sharaf. "Six new species of ants (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Egypt." In Proceedings of the Second International Conference of Economic Entomology, 235-249. Vol. 1. Cairo: Entomological Society of Egypt, 2007.