Aldawood Abdulrahman S, Sharaf Mostafa R, Taylor Brian
Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, PO Box 2460, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Zookeys. 2011 Apr 28(92):61-9. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.92.770.
The myrmicine ant genus Carebara is recorded for the first time in Saudi Arabia from the Arabian Peninsula as a whole. A new species Carebara abuhurayrisp. n. is described based on workers collected from Al Bahah region. One of the smallest ant species known to occur in Arabia, Carebara abuhurayri is found in an area inhabited by many ant species including Tetramorium sericeiventre Emery, 1877, Pheidole minuscula Bernard, 1952, Pheidole sp., Monomorium destructor (Jerdon, 1851), Monomorium exiguum (Forel, 1894) and Monomorium sp. and Crematogaster sp.
蚁亚科蚂蚁Carebara属在沙特阿拉伯乃至整个阿拉伯半岛首次被记录。基于从巴哈地区采集的工蚁，描述了一个新物种——阿卜胡拉伊里斯Carebara abuhurayris 新种。阿卜胡拉伊里斯Carebara abuhurayri是已知在阿拉伯出现的最小蚂蚁物种之一，它被发现于一个有许多蚂蚁物种栖息的区域，这些物种包括1877年埃默里描述的丝光铺道蚁Tetramorium sericeiventre、1952年贝尔纳描述的微小大头蚁Pheidole minuscula、大头蚁属Pheidole的一个物种、破坏小家蚁Monomorium destructor（杰登，1851年）、微小小家蚁Monomorium exiguum（福雷尔，1894年）和小家蚁属Monomorium的一个物种以及举腹蚁属Crematogaster的一个物种。
