The Ants of Egypt References - reports of collections and identifications from Egypt

References - with names of type species

Alfieri, A. 1931. Contribution à l'étude de la faune myrmécologique de l'Egypte. Bull. Soc. R. Entomol. Egypte, 15, 42-48 - results of a survey in October-November 1925.

André, E. 1881b. Catalogue raisonné des formicides provenant du Voyage en Orient de M Abeille de Perrin et description des espèces nouvelles. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6), 1, 53-78 - ants collected by Abeille de Perrin in the Middle East, with three species from Alexandria.

Audouin, J.-V. 1825-27. Explication sommaire des planches d'insectes de l'ouvrage de la commission d'Egypte (Voy. Savigny). (cited by André, 1882a) jpg extract. - specimens not identified beyond subfamily level.

Billen, J. 1989. Morphology of the cloacal gland in the ant Cataglyphis savignyi. Actes Coll. Ins. Soc., 5, 301-306 . - studied specimens caught in Egypt.

Dalla Torre, C. G. de 1893. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VII: Formicidae (Heterogyna). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, Lipsiae. 289 pp .

Donisthorpe, H. 1939a. The genus Lioponera Mayr (Formicidae, Cerapachyinae), with descriptions of two new species and an ergatandromorph. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (11)3: 252-257 - Cerapachys longitarsus synonyms cooperi and alfieri, collectors J Omer Cooper (1935) and A Alfieri (1925).

Donisthorpe, H. 1942a. The Formicidae (Hym.) of the Armstrong College expedition to the Siwa Oasis. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (11), 9, 26-33 . - lists 26 forms

Donisthorpe, H. 1947e. Results of the Armstrong College expedition to Siwa Oasis (Libyan Desert), 1935. A second list of the Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Bull. Soc. Fouad 1er Entomol., 31, 109-111

Dufour, L. 1862. Notices entomologiques. Ann. Soc. Entomol. France (4), 2, 131-148 . - Cataglyphis savignyi new species, from the Audouin/Savignyi survey.

El-Moursy, A., El-Hawagry, Abdeldayem, M. & Fadl, H. 2001. Insect diversity in Zaranik Protectorate, northern Sinai, Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Natural History, 3, 62-80 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/%7Eplzfg/EBBSoc/ejnh3/el-moursy2001.pdf.

Emery, C. 1877b. Catalogo delle formiche esistenti nelle coliezioni del Museo Civico di Geneva. Parte prima. Formiche provenienti dal Viaggio dei signori Antinori, Beccari e Issel nel Mar Rosso e nel paese dei Bogos. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 9, 363-381 - a few results from Cairo and Suez (collector Issel).

Fabricius, J. C. 1793. Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Vol. 2. Christ. Gottl. Proft, Hafniae. 519 pp - identification of Forskål specimens - "Formica aegyptiaca".

Fadl, H.H., Bakr, R.F., Badawy, R.M. & Sharaf, M.R. 2007. Six new species of ants (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Egypt. Proceedings of the second International Conference of the Entomological Society of Egypt. 1, 235-249 .

Finzi, B. 1936. Risultati scientifici della spedizione di S.A.S. il Principe Alessandro della Torre e Tasso nell'Egitto e Penisola del Sinai. Bull. Soc. R. Entomol. Egypte, 20, 155-210 - collections made by A. Schatzmayr, K. Koch and W. Wittmer in a widespread survey.

Forel, A. 1886f. Etudes myrmécologiques en 1886. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, 30, 131-215 .

Forel, A. 1907a. Formicides du Musée National Hongrois. Ann. Hist.-Nat. Mus. Nat. Hung., 5, 1-42 - specimens collected by Biró.

Forel, A. 1909e. Etudes myrmécologiques en 1909. Fourmis de Barbarie et de Ceylan. Nidification des Polyrhachis. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat., 45, 369-407 - Cataglyphis isis.

Forel, A. 1913d. Fourmiàs de la faune méditerranéenne récoltées par MM. U. et J. Sahlberg. Rev. Suisse Zool., 21, 427-438 .

Forskål, A. 1775. Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinerae orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr: xxxiv. 164 pp. Hauniae .

Karavaiev, V. 1911. Murav'i sobrannye v Egipte i Sudane. Russkoe Entomologicheskoe Obroznie, 11, 1-12 - mostly findings from Sudan.

Latreille, P. A. 1802. Histoire naturelle des fourmis, et recueil de memoires et d'observations sur les abeilles, les araignées, les faucheurs, et autres insectes. Paris. 445 pp. .

Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio 10. 1 823 pp. - extract only - . - Monomorium pharaonis & Monomorium salomonis.

Mayr, G. 1862. Myrmecologische Studien. Verhandlungen der k.k. Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 12, 649-776 - Crematogaster inermis, Nesomyrmex angulatus .

Mayr, G. 1866a. Myrmecologische Beiträge. Sitzungsber. K. Wiss. Math.-Naturwiss. Classe, 53, 484-517 - Anoplolepis mediterranea.

Mayr, G. 1893. Formiciden von Herrn Dr. Fr. Stuhlmann in Ost-Afrika gesammelt. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichten Anstalten, 10, (1892) 193-201

Mayr, G. 1904b. Formiciden aus Ägypten und dem Sudan. In Jägerskiöld, L.A. Results of the Swedish Zoological Expedition to Egypt and the White Nile, 1901, 1, (no. 9): 11 pp. Uppsala - Messor galla (as Stenamma barbarum var galla).

Mayr, G. 1907a. Ergebnisse der mit Subvention aus der Erbschaft Treitl unternommenen zoologischen Forschungsreise Dr. F. Werner's nach dem äegyptischen Sudan und nach Nord-Uganda. 11. Liste der von Dr. Franz Werner am oberen Nil gesammelten Ameisen nebst Beschreibung einer neuen Art. Sitzungsberichte der k. Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-NaturwissenschaftlicheKlasse, 116, 387-392 .

Menozzi, C. 1929e. Formiche del Sinai, raccolte dal Dr. F. S. Bodenheimer, con descrizione di una nuova specie di Monomorium del sottogenere Equestrimessor. Pages 125-128 in Bodenheimer, F. S. and O. Theodor. Ergebnisse der Sinai-Expedition 1927 der Hebraeischen Universitaet, Jerusalem. Leipzig. 142 pp. .

* Mohammad, A.H. 1979. Taxonomic studies on family Formicidae (Hymenoptera) in A.R. Egypt. PhD thesis. Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, 288pp. [not in pdf format] - records extracted

Mohamed, S., Zalat, S., Fadl, H., Gadalla, S. & Sharaf, M. 2001. Taxonomy of ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) collected by pitfall traps from Sinai and Delta Region, Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Natural History, 3, 40-61. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/%7Eplzfg/EBBSoc/ejnh3/mohamed2001.pdf

Olivier, G.A. 1792. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Insectes, 6 (part2) : 369-704. Paris listing of species, mostly from Linnaeus and Fabricius.

Radoszkowsky, O. 1876. Compte-rendu des hymenoptères recueilles en Egypte et Abyssinie en 1873. Tr. Russ. Entomol. Obshch., 12, 111-150 .

Santschi, F. 1908. Nouvelles fourmis de l'Afrique du Nord (Egypt, Canaries, Tunisie). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 77, 517-534 - includes Pheidole teneriffana definitions - .

Santschi, F. 1912b. Fourmis d'Afrique et de Madagascar. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, 56, 150-167 .

Santschi, F. 1915c. Nouvelles fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 84, 244-282 .

Santschi, F. 1917d. Acantholepis frauenfeldi Mayr et ses variétés. Bulletin de la Société d 'Histoire Naturelle de l 'Afrique du Nord, 8, 42-48 .

Santschi, F. 1928f. Descriptions de nouvelles fourmis ethiopiennes. (Suite). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines, 16, 191-213 - Messor rugosus ssp crawleyi.

Santschi, F. 1929b. Etude sur les Cataglyphis. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 33, 597-618 - Cataglyphis lividus ambigua .

Santschi, F. 1938a. Quelques nouvelles fourmis d'Egypte. Bull. Soc. R. Entomol. Egypte, 21, 28-44 - further results, with some new forms, from the Alfieri survey of 1925.

Santschi, F. 1938c. Mission Robert Ph. Dollfus en Égypte. Hymenoptera: Formicidae. Mémoires de l'Institute d'Égypte, 37, 253 .

Sharaf, M. R. 2007. Monomorium dentatum sp. n., a new ant species from Egypt (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) related to the fossulatum-group. Zoology in the Middle East, 41, 93-98.

Viehmeyer, H. 1923. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der mit unterstützung der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien aus der erbschaft treitl von F. Werner unternommenen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Anglo-Ägyptischen Sudan (Kordofan) 1914. 7. Hymenoptera A. Formicidae. Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse), 98, 83-94 - - reports a survey in Egypt (Cairo, Luxor, south into Sudan, by F Werner, in 1914)

Walker, F. 1871. A list of Hymenoptera collected by J.K. Lord, esq., in Egypt, in the neighbourhood of the Red Sea, and in Arabia 59 pp, London - Cataglyphis bicoloripes.

Wheeler, W.M. & Mann, W.M. (1916). The ants of the Phillips expedition to Palestine during 1914. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 60, 167-174 - Cataglyphis bombycinus sinaiticus .

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