The Ants
of Egypt Alphabetical list of known and possible ant species |
Digital images taken primarily by BT and linked from the species pages; most Antweb images are of types.
Species name | Subfamily | Status - definite / possible | Occ. | first described |
Type location | Description | Illustrated |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aenictus fuscovarius Gerstäcker - link | AENICTINAE | definite (male only known) | 2 | 1859 | Mozambique | yes | drawing & photo (Antweb ssp magrettii) |
Aenictus hamifer Emery - link | AENICTINAE | definite (male only known) | 2 | 1859 | Somalia | yes | drawing & photo (Antweb) |
Amblyopone normandi
(Santschi) - link |
AMBLYOPONINAE |
likely - known from Tunisia
& Israel |
0 |
1915 |
Tunisia |
yes |
drawing & photo (Antweb) |
Anochetus sedilloti Emery - link | PONERINAE | possible - known from Tunisia, Sudan & Saudi
Arabia may equate to Formica aequalis Walker (see bottom) |
0 | 1884 | Tunisia | yes | drawing & photo (Antweb) |
Anochetus traegaordhi Mayr - link | PONERINAE | possible - known from Sudan & Saudi Arabia | 0 | 1904 | Sudan | yes | drawing & photos (MCZ cotype, Sudan and Antweb, CAR) |
Aphaenogaster phillipsi Wheeler & Mann link | MYRMICINAE | now recognised as a misidentification of splendida | 0 | 1916 | Jordan | yes | drawing & photo (co-type MCZ Jordan) |
Aphaenogaster splendida (Roger) link | MYRMICINAE | definite | many | 1859 | Greece | yes | drawings (male & worker) & photos (Sharaf, Egypt) |
Aphaenogaster syriaca Emery - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1908 | Lebanon | yes | drawing & photo (Antweb) |
Bothriomyrmex syrius Forel - link | DOLICHODERINAE | definite | 1 | 1910 | Lebanon | yes | drawing & photo (Antweb) |
Brachyponera sennaarensis (Mayr) - link | PONERINAE | definite | 2 | 1862 | Sudan | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar & Iran) |
Camponotus (Myrmosericus) cruentatus (Latreille) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 2 | 1802 | "Africa" | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & Egypt, Sinai) |
Camponotus (Myrmosericus) micans (Nylander) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1856 | Algeria | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb)) |
Camponotus (Myrmotrema) rhamses Santschi - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1915 | Egypt | yes | photos (Antweb & BT, Sudan) |
Camponotus (Orthonotomyrmex) obtusus (F Smith) - revived status - link | FORMICINAE | definite | possibly many named as sericeus | 1858 1858 |
Egypt | yes | drawings & photos (Sharaf, Egypt, BT, Saudi Arabia, & Antweb) |
Camponotus (Orthonotomyrmex) sericeus (Fabricius) - revised status - link | FORMICINAE | definite | many, some may be obtusus | 1858 1858 |
Egypt | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt) |
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) adenensis Emery - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 1 |
1893 | Yemen | yes | photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt, Sinai) |
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) aegyptiacus Emery - link | FORMICINAE | definite | common | 1915 | Egypt | yes | drawingss & photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt, Sinai) |
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) cognatocompressus Forel - link | FORMICINAE | definite | several | 1886 | "Africa" = Egypt ? | yes | photos (BT, Egypt) |
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) fellah Emery - link | FORMICINAE | definite | many | 1891 | Egypt | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb, BT, Egypt, Ionescu, Israel) |
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) maculatus (Fabricius) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | several | 1782 | West Africa | yes | drawing & photos (BT, Cameroun) |
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) oasium Forel - link | FORMICINAE | definite | several | 1890 | North Africa | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt & Sudan) |
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) sylvaticus (Olivier) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1792 | France | yes | possible Savigny drawing; photos of minor
(Gomez, Spain); may not be in Egypt |
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) thoracicus (Fabricius) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | many | 1804 1938 |
Algeria vars herodes & delta Egypt |
yes | drawing & photos (Antweb) |
Cardiocondyla elegans Emery) - link | MYRMICINAE | questionable | 3 | 1869 1936 |
Italy |
yes | drawing & photos (Antweb) |
Cardiocondyla emeryi Forel - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | many | 1881 1936 |
Virgin Is var mahdii from Egypt |
yes | drawing & photo (Antweb & BT, Egypt) |
Cardiocondyla fajumensis Forel - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 5 | 1913d | Egypt/Israel var schatzmayri from Egypt |
yes | drawings & photo (MCZ cotype schatzmayri) |
Cardiocondyla israelica Seifert - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 6 | 2002 | Egypt/Israel var torretassoi from Egypt |
yes | drawings & photos (BT, Egypt) |
Cardiocondyla mauritanica Forel - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | several | 1890 | Tunisia morph B |
yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt, BT, Sharaf) |
Cardiocondyla minutior Forel - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 2 | 1899 | Hawaii | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt) |
Cardiocondyla nigra Forel - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 2 | 1905 | Tunisia var torretassoi from Egypt |
yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & MCZ torretassoi lectotype Egypt) |
Cardiocondyla obscurior Wheeler - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1929 | Taiwan | yes | drawing & photo (Antweb & BT, Egypt) |
Cardiocondyla sahlbergi Forel - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 2 | 1913 | Israel | yes | drawing & photo (Antweb & Sharaf, Egypt) |
Cardiocondyla wroughtonii Forel - link | MYRMICINAE | questionable | 1 | 1890 | India | yes | drawing & photo (Antweb) |
Cataglyphis adenensis (Forel) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1904 1908 |
Yemen ssp bugnioni from Egypt |
yes | drawing & photo (Antweb & BT, Kuwait) |
Cataglyphis agostii Sharaf - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 1 | 2006 | Egypt | yes | drawings & photo (Antweb) |
Cataglyphis albicans (Roger) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 5 | 1859 | North Africa | yes | drawing and photos (BT, Egypt) |
Cataglyphis argentatus (Radoszkowsky) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 1? | 1876 | Egypt | yes | no |
Cataglyphis bicolor (Fabricius) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | common | 1793 | North Africa | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT, Sudan) |
Cataglyphis bicoloripes Walker - link | FORMICINAE | definite - queen only known | 1? | 1871 | Egypt | yes | no |
Cataglyphis bombycinus (Roger) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | common | 1859 1916 |
Libya ssp sinaiticus from Egypt |
yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt & Israel) |
Cataglyphis desertorum (Forel) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | numerous | 1894 | Ethiopia | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & BT, Tunisia) |
Cataglyphis diehlii (Forel) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1902 | Algeria | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & MCZ, Algeria) |
Cataglyphis franchettii Menozzi - new status - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1931a | Ethiopia | yes | photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt, Sinai) |
Cataglyphis holgerseni Collingwood & Agosti - link | FORMICINAE | definite | several | 1996 | Israel | yes | drawing (as C. niger) and photos (Antweb, Sharaf, Egypt and BT, Jordan) |
Cataglyphis isis (Forel) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 2 | 1909 | Egypt | yes | drawing (antenna) and photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt, Sinai) |
Cataglyphis laevior (Stitz) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1917 | Algeria | yes | photo (Antweb); possibly Savigny drawing |
Cataglyphis lividus (André) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | many | 1881 1929 |
Israel var ambigua from Egypt |
yes | drawing and photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt) |
Cataglyphis mauritanicus (Emery) - link | FORMICINAE | possible | 0 | 1906 | Tunisia | yes | drawing & photo (Antweb) |
Cataglyphis minimus Collingwood - link | FORMICINAE | now recognised as a misidentification of C. agostii | 0 | 1985 | Saudi Arabia | yes | drawing |
Cataglyphis niger (André) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | common | 1881 1929 |
Israel var pharao from Egypt |
yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt, Sinai) |
Cataglyphis nodus (Brullé) - link | FORMICINAE | questionable | possibly many | 1832 | Greece | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & Turkey, David King |
Cataglyphis pallidus Mayr - link | FORMICINAE | questionable, perhaps laevior | 1? | 1877 | Turkestan | yes | drawing & photo (Antweb) |
Cataglyphis ruber (Forel) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 4 | 1903 | Algeria | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt, BT, Kuwait) |
Cataglyphis sabulosus Kugler - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 6 | 1981 | Israel (Sinai - ? Egypt) |
yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & Sharaf, Egypt) |
Cataglyphis savignyi (Dufour) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | several | 1862 | Egypt | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & BT Egypt) |
Cataglyphis sinaiticus Wheeler & Mann new status - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 8 | 1916 | Egypt | yes | photos (MCZ, type, Egypt, Sinai) |
Cataglyphis viaticus (Fabricius) - link | FORMICINAE | possible - for comparison | 0 | 1787 | Spain | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & BT, Morocco) |
Cerapachys collingwoodi Sharaf - link | CERAPACHYINAE | definite | 1 | 2006 |
Egypt | yes | drawings (Sharaf) |
Cerapachys longitarsus (Mayr) - link | CERAPACHYINAE | definite (males only) tramp species | 3 | 1879 1939 |
India syns alfierii & cooperi from Egypt |
yes | drawing & photos (Antweb) |
Cerapachys noctambulus (Santschi) - link | CERAPACHYINAE | questionable possible male only known |
0 | 1910 | Tunisia | yes | photos (Antweb) |
Crematogaster (Cr.) aegyptiaca Mayr - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | common | 1862 | Egypt | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT Egypt) |
Crematogaster (Cr.) antaris Forel - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 2 | 1894 | Algeria | yes | photo (Antweb & BT, Egypt, Sinai) |
Crematogaster (Cr.) auberti Emery - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 7 | 1869 | France | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & Sharaf, Egypt) |
Crematogaster (Cr.) inermis Mayr - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | common | 1862 | Egypt | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT Egypt) |
Crematogaster (Cr.) jehovae Forel - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 5 | 1907 | Israel | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb) |
Crematogaster (Cr.) laestrygon Emery - link | MYRMICINAE | possible | 1 | 1907 | Sicily | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & BT Israel) |
Crematogaster (Cr.) nigriceps Emery - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 3 | 1897 | Somalia | yes | drawing & photo (Antweb & BT, Tanzania) |
Crematogaster (Cr.) oasium Santschi - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1911 | Tunisia | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb) |
Crematogaster (Cr.) scutellaris (Olivier) link | MYRMICINAE | possible, pan-Mediterranean competitor with Cr. inermis | 0 | 1792 | France | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb) |
Dolichoderus quadripunctatus (Linnaeus) - link | DOLICHODERINAE | definite | 5 | 1771 | Germany | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb) |
Dorylus (Dorylus) aegyptiacus Mayr - link | DORYLINAE | definite | 1? | 1865 | Egypt |
yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT, Sudan) |
Dorylus (Typhlopone) oraniensis (Lucas) - link | DORYLINAE | definite/likely |
several | 1849 | Algeria | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT, Tunisia) |
Hypoponera punctatissima (Roger) - link | PONERINAE | definite | 2 | 1859 | Germany (exotic) | yes | drawing & photo (Antweb & BT, Gabon) |
Hypoponera ragusai (Emery) - link | PONERINAE | definite | many | 1894 | Sicily | yes | drawing & photo (Antweb & BT, Israel) |
Lasius lasioides (Emery) - link | FORMICINAE | questionable (migrant?) | 1? | 1869 | Italy | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb) |
Lepisiota aegyptiaca (Finzi) new status - link | FORMICINAE | definite | several | 1938 | Egypt | yes | drawing & photo (BT Egypt, Sinai) |
Lepisiota canescens (Emery) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 2 | 1897 | Somalia | yes | photos (Antweb & BT, Sudan) |
Lepisiota carbonaria (Emery) - link | FORMICINAE | questionable | 1 | 1892 | Somalia | yes | photos (Antweb & BT, Somalia & Sudan) |
Lepisiota depilis (Emery) - link | FORMICINAE | not proven | 0 | 1897 | Somalia | yes | drawing and photos (Antweb & BT, Sudan) |
Lepisiota erythraea (Emery) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 1 |
1910 | Eritrea | yes | photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt) |
Lepisiota frauenfeldi (Mayr) - link Needs revision, BT has compiled an analysis |
FORMICINAE | definite but subspecies may be redefined) | 6 | 1855 1936 |
Yugoslavia ssp opaciventris from Egypt |
yes | drawings and numerous photos (Antweb) |
Lepisiota gracilicornis (Emery) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 5 | 1892 | Yemen | yes | photo (Antweb & BT Egypt Sinai) |
Lepisiota hirsuta (Santschi) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1914 | Kenya | yes | photos (Antweb & BT Egypt, Sinai) |
Lepisiota nigra (Dalla Torre) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 2 | 1893 | Italy | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb) |
Lepisiota obtusa (Emery) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1910 | Eritrea | yes | photo (Antweb & BT Egypt, Sinai) |
Lepisiota splendens (Karavaiev) - link | FORMICINAE | questionable may be gracilicornis | 1? | 1912 | Greece | yes | photo (Antweb) |
Lepisiota syriaca (André) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1881 | Syria | yes | drawings & photo (BT, Israel) |
Messor aegyptiacus (Emery) - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | common | 1878 | Egypt | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT & Sharaf, Egypt) |
Messor arenarius (Fabricius) - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | common | 1781 1912 1936 |
North Africa ssps thebaicus alfieri from Egypt |
yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & Sharaf, Egypt) |
Messor binodis (Fabricius) - revived status - link | MYRMICINAE | definite (separated from M. barbarus) | 2? | 1763 | Egypt | yes | drawings & photos (MCZ, cotype) |
Messor concolor Emery - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1908 | Syria | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT, Iran) |
Messor ebeninus (Forel) - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 4 | 1910 | Lebanon | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt & Israel) |
Messor eglalae Sharaf - link | MYRMICINAE | definite (may = Messor rufotestaceus) |
1 | 2007 | Egypt | yes | drawing |
Messor foreli Santschi - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | several | 1923 | Tunisia | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb)) |
Messor maculifrons Santschi - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1917 | Syria | yes | drawing |
Messor medioruber (Forel) - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 2 | 1905 | Tunisia | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & Sharaf, Egypt) |
Messor niloticus Santschi - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 2 | 1938 | Egypt | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & Sharaf, Egypt) |
Messor rufotestaceus (Foerster) - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | several | 1850 | Algeria | yes | drawings & photos (BT, Iran) |
Messor rugosus (André) - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 2 | 1881 1928 |
Israel ssp crawleyi from Egypt |
yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & Sharaf, Egypt; BT, Kuwait) |
Messor structor (Latreille) - link | MYRMICINAE | dubious, possible import but fits Savigny drawing |
3 | 1798 | France | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb, MCZ & BT, Iran) |
Monomorium abeillei André - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 2 | 1881 | Israel | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt) |
Monomorium areniphilum Santschi - link. | MYRMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1911 1936 |
Tunisia |
yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt) |
Monomorium atomum Forel - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 5 | 1902 1942 |
India ssp cooperi from Egypt |
yes | photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt) |
Monomorium bicolor Emery - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | several | 1877 1914 |
Ethiopia syn rufibasis from Egypt |
yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt) |
Monomorium bodenheimeri Menozzi - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1929 | Egypt | yes | drawing & photos (BT Egypt) |
Monomorium carbo Forel - link | MYRMICINAE | questionable | 8 | 1910 | Eritrea | yes | photo (USNM cotype from Eritrea |
Monomorium carbonarium (F Smith) - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 2 | 1858 | Madeira | yes | drawing & photo (Antweb) |
Monomorium clavicorne André - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1881 | Israel | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb, BT & Sharaf, Egypt) |
Monomorium dentatum Sharaf - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 2 | 2006 | Egypt | yes | photos (BT, Sharaf paper Egypt) |
Monomorium jizane Collingwood & Agosti - link | MYRMICINAE | questionable (may = M. nitidiventre) |
1 | 1996 | Saudi Arabia | yes | drawing & photo (Antweb) |
Monomorium lepineyi Santschi - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | unknown | 1934 | Mauritania | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & BT Egypt) |
Monomorium mictilis Forel - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | common | 1910 | Eritrea | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt) |
Monomorium niloticum Emery - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | several | 1881 | Egypt | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt) |
Monomorium nitidiventre Emery - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | common | 1893 | Yemen | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & BT, Iran) |
Monomorium pharaonis (Linnaeus) - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | several | 1758 | Egypt | yes | drawing & photos (BT, Egypt & Cameroun) |
Monomorium phoenicium Emery - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 2 | 1908 | Lebanon | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt) |
Monomorium pullulum Santschi new status - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | possibly common | 1919 | Senegal | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt) |
Monomorium salomonis (Linnaeus) - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | common | 1758 | Egypt | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb, Sharaf, Egypt; BT, Sudan) |
Monomorium subopacum (F Smith) - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | several | 1858 | Madeira | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb; BT Egypt) |
Monomorium venustum (F Smith) - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1858 | Syria | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & Sharaf & BT, Egypt) |
Nesomyrmex angulatus (Mayr) - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 4 | 1862 | Egypt | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt) |
Oxyopomyrmex sabulonis Santschi - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 2 | 1915a | Tunisia | yes | drawing & photo (Antweb) |
Paratrechina jaegerskioeldi (Mayr) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | common | 1904 | Egypt | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT Egypt) |
Paratrechina longicornis (Latreille) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | common | 1802c | Senegal | yes | drawings & photos (BT, Egypt) |
Paratrechina vividula (Nylander) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 3 | 1846 | Finland (exotic) | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT Egypt) |
Pheidole cicatricosa Stitz -
link |
MYRMICINAE | definite |
common |
1917 |
Algeria |
yes |
drawings & photos (Antweb & BT Egypt) |
Pheidole fadli Sharaf - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 1 | 2007 | Egypt | yes | photos (BT & Sharaf, Egypt) |
Pheidole fervens - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | common | 1858 | Singapore | yes | photos (Antweb, BT & Sharaf, Egypt) |
Pheidole jordanica Saulcy - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 8 | 1874 1904 |
Jordan | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb, BT, Egypt, Israel & Iran) |
Pheidole laticeps Mayr - link | MYRMICINAE | definite |
4 | 1904 | Egypt | yes | photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt) |
Pheidole megacephala (Fabricius) - link | MYRMICINAE | questionable as sole occurence appears to date from 1775 | 1? | 1793 1775 |
unclear dubious syn edax from Egypt | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT, Gabon, Saudi Arabia) |
Pheidole pallidula (Nylander) - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 5 | 1849 1932 |
Sicily | yes | drawings & photos (Gomez, Spain; BT Egypt) |
Pheidole providens (Sykes) - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | common | 1835 | India | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt & Israel) |
Pheidole sinaitica Mayr - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 6 | 1862 | Egypt | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT Egypt) |
Plagiolepis ancyrensis Santschi - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1920 | Turkey (male from Egypt) |
yes | drawings & photos (Antweb) |
Plagiolepis maura Santschi - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 4 | 1920 | Morocco | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT Egypt) |
Plagiolepis pallescens Forel - link | FORMICINAE | definite | several | 1889 1938 |
Greece ssp isis from Egypt |
yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT Egypt) |
Plagiolepis pygmaea (Latreille) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | several | 1798 | France | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt) |
Plagiolepis schmitzii Forel - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 4 | 1895 | Madeira | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT Madeira) |
Plagiolepis sordida Santschi - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1920 | Tunisia | yes | drawings & photos (BT Egypt) |
Platythyrea modesta Emery - link | PONERINAE | possible - known from Sudan and Saudi Arabia | 0 | 1899 | Cameroun | yes | drawings & photo (Antweb) |
Polyrhachis lacteipennis F Smith - link | FORMICINAE | definite note species status needs revision | 2 | 1858 | India | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & BT Israel) |
Pyramica membranifera (Emery) - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 2 | 1869 | Italy | yes | drawing & photo (Antweb) |
Solenopsis cooperi Donisthorpe - link note synonymy of S. bakri |
MYRMICINAE | definite | 3 | 1947 | Egypt | yes | photos (Antweb & workers, BT Egypt) |
Solenopsis lou Forel - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 2 | 1902 | Algeria | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & Sharaf, Egypt) |
Solenopsis occipitalis Santschi - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 4 | 1911 1936 |
Tunisia | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & Sharaf, Egypt) |
Solenopsis orbula Emery - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 4 | 1875 1936 |
Corsica ssp kochi from Egypt |
yes | drawings & photos (Antweb) |
Stigmatomma normandi Santschi - link | AMBLYOPONINAE | possible - known from Tunisia & Israel | 0 | 1915 | Tunisia | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb - type & Israel) |
Tapinolepis mediterranea (Mayr) - link | FORMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1866 | Egypt | yes | photos (Antweb & BT, Sudan) |
Tapinoma erraticum (Latreille) - link | DOLICHODERINAE | definite | many | 1798 | France | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT, Yugoslavia & Iran) |
Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius) - link | DOLICHODERINAE | possible, as tramp, often domestic | 0 | 1793 | French Guyana | yes | drawing & photos (BT, not Egypt) |
Tapinoma simrothi (Krausse) - link | DOLICHODERINAE | definite | many | 1911 | Sardinia | yes | photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt, Sinai) |
Technomyrmex albipes (F. Smith) - link | DOLICHODERINAE | possible, as tramp in many warm countries, inc. Saudi Arabia | 0 | 1861 | Sulawesi | yes | drawing & photo (Antweb & BT, Congo) |
Tetramorium (Triglyphothrix) lanuginosum Mayr - link | MYRMICINAE | definite, tramp | 1 | 1870 | Indonesia, Java | yes | photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt) |
Tetramorium bicarinatum (Nylander) - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 4 | 1846 | USA | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt) |
Tetramorium caldarium (Roger) - link | MYRMICINAE | definite ? migrant queen |
1 | 1857 1942 |
Germany (exotic) syn minutum from Egypt |
yes | photos (Antweb & AMNH, minutum holotype, BT Egypt) |
Tetramorium depressiceps Menozzi - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 4 | 1933 | Israel |
yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & Sharaf, Egypt) |
Tetramorium punicum (F Smith) - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 4 | 1861 | Israel | yes | photo (Antweb) |
Tetramorium sahlbergi Forel - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | several | 1913 | Egypt | yes | photos (Antweb & Sharaf, Egypt) |
Tetramorium salwae Mohamed et al - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 2 | 2001 | Egypt | yes | drawing & photos (Sharaf, Egypt) |
Tetramorium schmidti Forel - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 2 | 1904 | Israel | yes | photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt, Sinai) |
Tetramorium semilaeve André - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 4 | 1883 | Mediterranean | yes | photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt, Sinai) |
Tetramorium shirlae Sharaf - link | MYRMICINAE | definite (possibe j. syn. of T. caldarium) |
1 | 2006 | Egypt | yes | drawing (Sharaf) |
Tetramorium simillimum (F Smith) - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 4 | 1851 | Great Britain (exotic) | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT, Egypt) |
Tetramorium taueret (Emery) Bolton - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 6 | 1909 | Egypt | yes | drawing & photo (Antweb) |
Tetraponera erythraea (Emery) - link | PSEUDOMYRMECINAE | definite | 1 | 1895 | Yemen | yes | photos (Antweb & Sharaf, Egypt) |
Tetraponera maculifrons (Santschi) - new status link | PSEUDOMYRMECINAE | definite | 1 | 1912 | Djibouti | yes | drawing & photo (Antweb, MCZ, cotype, syriaca, from Egypt, Sinai) |
Trichomyrmex abyssinicus (Forel) - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | 1 | 1894 | Ethiopia | yes | drawings & photos (Antweb & BT, Senegal) |
Trichomyrmex destructor (Jerdon) - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | common | 1851 | India | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & BT Egypt) |
Trichomyrmex mayri Forel - link | MYRMICINAE | definite | common | 1902 | India | yes | drawing & photos (Antweb & BT Egypt) |
Donisthorpe (1942a) list of specimens from Kamissa, Gara, Siwa and Maragi Oases - Pheidole - 100 alate queens.
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