Contents Contents 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)

Taxa from Egypt but of dubious status (in HNS)

  1. Cataglyphis bicoloripes Walker - queen only (Walker, 1871: 10, queen) [not in Santschi, 1929b] - Agosti (1990: 1495) noted this as species incertae sedis, as the Walker's description was inadequate and no specimens could be found in the collection (Natural History Museum, London)
  2. Aphaenogaster pallescens Walker - link - unrecognised by Bolton (1995) {original description}.
  3. Formica aegyptiaca Fabricius (1775: 393, worker) - undefinable by Bolton (1995: 191) - possibly Crematogaster aegyptiaca - {original description}.
  4. Formica aequalis Walker (1871: 9, queen) - undefinable by Bolton (1995: 191) - possibly Anochetus sedilloti {original description}.
  5. Formica animosa Forskål (1775: 85, worker) - undefinable by Bolton (1995: 191) - see {original description}.
  6. Formica insultans Forskål (1775: 85, worker) - undefinable by Bolton (1995: 197) [unavailable]
  7. Formica maligna Forskål (1775: 84, worker) - undefinable by Bolton (1995: 198), see also Emery (1892b: 160) [unavailable]

Donisthorpe (1942a) list of specimens from Kamissa, Gara, Siwa and Maragi Oases - Pheidole - 100 alate queens.

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