Notes

Species are shown on linked pages. These are in one of three formats - A = main "Ants of (sub-Saharan) Africa" page; E = "Ants of Egypt" website page; M = Miscellaneous ants pages.

¤ = compared with type images (not necessarily added to the web pages)

General files

Separation of the former single genus Leptothorax

An attempt to analyze the Lepisiota frauenfeldi complex

Analysis of the confusion surrounding Camponotus compressus (Fabricius).

List of species from Egypt - omitting those found in sub-Saharan Africa

Specimens collected by Mostafa Sharaf and Mike James; also from Egypt/Israel courtesy of Joshua Kugler & Armin Ionescu (Tel Aviv University).

see also the pages on the website http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg/ants/ants_of_egypt_2007/cover.htm

• DOLICHODERINAE
• Tapinoma erraticum (Latreille) ¤
• Tapinoma simrothi Krausse - also specimens from Jordan ¤ (subspecies)
  
• FORMICINAE
• Camponotus (Myrmosericus) cruentatus (Latreille) ¤ (subspecies)
• Camponotus (Myrmosericus) micans (Nylander) - may be misdiagnosed.
  
• Camponotus (Myrmotrema) rhamses Santschi - may be misdiagnosed
  
• Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) adenensis Emery ¤
• Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) aegyptiacus Emery ¤
• Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) cognatocompressus Forel ¤
• Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) fellah Emery - specimens from Israel ¤
• Cataglyphis adenensis (Forel) - specimens from Kuwait ¤
• Cataglyphis agostii Sharaf ¤
• Cataglyphis albicans (Roger) ¤ (subspecies)
  
• Cataglyphis bombycinus Roger - specimens also from Israel ¤ (subspecies)
• Cataglyphis desertorum (Forel) - specimens from Tunisia (T Lackner) ¤
  
• Cataglyphis franchettii Menozzi new status ¤
  
• Cataglyphis isis Forel ¤
• Cataglyphis lividus (André) ¤
• Cataglyphis holgerseni Collingwood & Agosti - also specimens from Jordan ¤
• Cataglyphis niger (André) ¤ (subspecies)
• Cataglyphis ruber (Forel) - also specimens from Kuwait ¤
  
• Cataglyphis savignyi (Dufour) ¤
  
• Cataglyphis viaticus (Fabricius) - also specimens from Morocco (courtesy of A Lenoir) ¤ (subspecies)
• Lepisiota aegyptiaca (Finzi) new status - no type images available
  
• Lepisiota syriaca (André) - specimens from Israel - no type images available
• Paratrechina jaegerskioeldi (Mayr) ¤ (subspecies)
• Paratrechina vividula (Nylander) ¤
  
• Plagiolepis ancyrensis Santschi ¤
  
• Plagiolepis maura Santschi ¤
  
• Plagiolepis pallescens (Forel) ¤
  
• Plagiolepis ??schmitzii
• Plagiolepis pygmaea (Latreille) ¤ (subspecies)
• Polyrhachis lacteipennis F Smith variant - specimens from Israel
• MYRMICINAE
• Aphaenogaster splendida (Roger) ¤ (subspecies)
• Cardiocondyla emeryi Forel ¤
  
• Cardiocondyla israelica Seifert - no type images available
• Cardiocondyla mauritanica Forel ¤
• Cardiocondyla obscurior Wheeler ¤ (subspecies)
• Cardiocondyla sahlbergi Forel - Sharaf photo ¤
  
• Cardiocondyla ulianini Emery - specimens from Iran ¤
• Crematogaster auberti Emery ¤
• Crematogaster antaris Forel ¤
• Crematogaster inermis Mayr ¤ (subspecies)
  
• Crematogaster laestrygon Emery - specimens from Israel ¤
• Messor aegyptiacus (Emery) ¤
• Messor arenarius (Fabricius) - Sharaf photo ¤ (subspecies)
• Messor ebeninus Forel - specimens from Egypt & Israel ¤
  
• Messor foreli Santschi ¤
  
• Messor medioruber (Forel) - Sharaf photo ¤
  
• Messor niloticus Santschi - Sharaf photo ¤
  
• Messor rugosus (André) - specimens from Kuwait and a Sharaf photo ¤
  
• Monomorium abeillei André ¤
  
• Monomorium atomum Forel ¤
  
• Monomorium bodenheimeri Menozzi - no type images available
• Monomorium carbonarium Mayr ¤
• Monomorium clavicorne André - specimens from Senegal and a Sharaf photo ¤
• Monomorium lepineyi Santschi new status - no type images available
• Monomorium new sp. in barbatulum-group
• Monomorium nitidiventre Emery - specimen from Iran ¤
• Monomorium phoenicium Emery ¤
• Monomorium pullulum Santschi new status
• Monomorium venustum (F Smith) ¤
• Pheidole fadli Sharaf
• Pheidole fervens F Smith ¤
• Pheidole jordanica Saulcy ¤ subspecies
  
• Pheidole laticeps Mayr ¤
• Pheidole orientalis Emery ¤
• Pheidole pallidula (Nylander) ¤ subspecies
  
• Pheidole providens (Sykes) ¤ subspecies
  
• Pheidole sinaitica Mayr ¤
• Pheidole cicatricosa Forel ¤ subspecies
  
• Solenopsis cooperi Donisthorpe - first examples of workers ¤
• Syllophopsis dentata (Sharaf) ¤
• Tetramorium depressiceps Menozzi - Sharaf photos (non-type photos)
  
• Tetramorium lanuginosum Mayr ¤
• Tetramorium sahlbergi Forel - Sharaf photos ¤
• Tetramorium salwae Mohamed et al - Sharaf photos
• Tetramorium schmidti Forel ¤
• Tetramorium semilaeve André ¤ subspecies
  
• PONERINAE
• Hypoponera ragusai (Emery) - specimens from Israel ¤
• Brachyponera sennaarensis (Mayr) ¤
• PSEUDOMYRMECINAE
• Tetraponera erythraea (Emery) - Sharaf photos ¤

Species from other than sub-Saharan Africa or Egypt

Species from Israel provided by the University of Tel Aviv, Prof. Joshua Kugler & Armin Ionescu.

• Dorylus (Dorylus) affinis Shuckard ¤
  
• Dorylus (Typhlopone) juvenculus Shuckard ¤
• Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) fellah (Emery) ¤
• Cataglyphis bombycinus Roger ¤ subspecies.
  
• Lepisiota syriaca (André) - no type images available.
  
• Polyrhachis lacteipennis F Smith variant (may = a subspecies) ¤ (queen)
  
• Messor ebeninus (Forel) ¤
• Messor meridionalis (André) - no type images available.
• Messor nahali Thomé & Thomé ¤
• Hypoponera ragusai (Emery) ¤

Species associated with myrmecophiles collected by Thomas Stalling.

• Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) barbaricus (Emery) from Tunisia ¤
• Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) sanctus (Emery) from Jordan ¤
• Lepisiota melas (Emery) from Tunisia ¤
• Messor barbarus (Linnaeus) from Tunisia, two collections, no holotype images but several of junior synonyms
• Messor ceresis Santschi from Jordan ¤
• Messor luridus Santschi from Jordan, subspecies type images
• Messor structor (Latreille) from Cyprus no type images but several junior synonyms
• Monomorium_areniphilum Santschi from Tunisia ¤

Miscellaneous records.

• Monomorium latinode Mayr - Bangladesh collector Brian Taylor ¤
• Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) compressus (Fabricius) - India, Jaipur, collector Alain Lenoir; much variability - no type images available.
• Cataglyphis setipes (Forel) - India collector Alain Lenoir ¤
• Messor wasmanni (Krausse) - Italy collector David King - no type images available.
• Cataglyphis cinnamomeus (Karavaiev) - Jordan collector Alain Lenoir ¤
• Cataglyphis vaucheri (Emery) - Jordan collector Alain Lenoir ¤
• Messor orientalis (Emery) - Jordan collector Alain Lenoir ¤
• Cataglyphis adenensis (Forel) - Kuwait collector David King ¤
• Cataglyphis ruber (Forel) - Kuwait collector David King ¤
• Messor rugosus (André) - Kuwait collector David King ¤
• Aenictus vaucheri Emery - Morocco collectors J Reyes-Lopez & A Taheri ¤ (queen)
  
• Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) alii Forel - Morocco collector Peter Hlavác ¤
• Cataglyphis viaticus (Fabricius) - Morocco collector Alain Lenoir ¤ subspecies
  
• Pheidole fervens F Smith - Spain collector Xavier Espadaler, several locations; plus Canary Islands (David King) ¤
• Pheidole cicatricosa Forel - Spain collector Xavier Espadaler - no type images available - name needs verification.
• Plagiolepis schmitzii Forel - Spain, Canary Islands, collector David King ¤
  
• Plagiolepis schmitzii Forel - Spain collector Xavier Espadaler ¤
• Plagiolepis pygmaea (Latreille) - Spain collector Xavier Espadaler ¤ subspecies
• Dorylus (Typhlopone) oraniensis Lucas - Tunisia, collector T Lackner ¤ subspecies
• Cataglyphis desertorum (Forel) - Tunisia collector T Lackner - no type images available but probable 
• Cataglyphis oasium Menozzi - Tunisia collector S. Aron ¤ subspecies
• Pheidole arenarum Ruzsky - Turkey collector David King ¤
• Cataglyphis nodus (Brullé) - Turkey collector David King ¤ subspecies
• Lasius flavus (Fabricius) - United Kingdom collector Brian Taylor - no type images available but probable
  
• Lasius niger (Linnaeus) - United Kingdom collector Brian Taylor - no type images available but probable
• Linepithema humile (Mayr) - Portugal collector Markus Eichhorn ¤ subspecies
• Plagiolepis pygmaea (Latreille) - Portugal collector Markus Eichhorn ¤ subspecies
  
• Lepisiota gracilicornis (Forel) - Yemen, Socotra Island collector J Batelka (ex P Hlavac) ¤
  
• Paratrechina vagabunda Motschoulsky - Sri Lanka collector N R Gunawardene - type specimen exists but no images available
  
• Paratrechina taylori - Sri Lanka collector N R Gunawardene
• Paraparatrechina SL105 - Sri Lanka collector N R Gunawardene
• Paraparatrechina SL181 - Sri Lanka collector N R Gunawardene
• Prenolepis naoroji Forel - Sri Lanka collector N R Gunawardene ¤
• Technomyrmex briani Sharaf - Saudi Arabia collector M Sharaf ¤
  

Species from the Maldives, North Malé, Ihuru Atoll, collected by Marco Aita

• Tapinoma fragile F Smith ¤
  
• Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius) ¤ subspecies
• Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) compressus (Fabricius) - no type images available but probable
• Paratrechina_longicornis (Latreille) - no type images available but probable

Note: This may well be the first record of three of the species from The Maldives. Wetterer (2008a) has a previously unpublished record of Paratrechina longicornis from Hulhule Island. His comprehensive study (Wetterer, 2008b) of Tapinoma megacephalum global records does not have any report. The record of Camponotus compressus is unsurprising as it is well recorded from all over the Indian sub-continent. The Tapinoma fragile record is of great interest as apparently only the second record from anywhere and the type location is the quite isolated Rodrigues Island, some 2800 km away across the Indian Ocean.