Contents Ants from Iran

Compilation based on modern publications

P(aknia) 2008, P2(Paknia 2010), F(irouzi 2011), G(hahari 2011), H(ossein 2012), BT (2015), G2 Ghahari (2015)

References:

Some of the published identifications appear to rely on the keys in Collingwood & Agosti (1996) which may need to be relied on with some caution. I am hoping to sight the Collingwood collection in the near future.

Initial collection by Omid Paknia (appear as "g." in Paknia et al, 2008, Table 1); unless other colleagues named.

Recent collectors with specimens identified by Brian Taylor

Reyhane Nafisi, 2013; Shabnam Moradloo, 2013; Ebrahim Aram, 2014; Fatemeh Safariyan, 2014; Maryam Seiri, 2015 (some details still to be added); Roshanak Torabi, 2015; Giti Abolfathi, 2015; Fouzieh Heidary, 2015; Z Mahmoodi, 2015; Reyhan Afshari, 2015; Fatemeh Borjali, 2014; Maryam Ghatei - 2016; Farzaneh Jazini, 2016; Valah Heidari Kiah, 2015.
Subfamilies with separate pages

 DOLICHODERINAE
FORMICINAE - Camponotus
FORMICINAE - Cataglyphis
FORMICINAE - others
MYRMICINAE - Messor
MYRMICINAE - others

NOTES: Species are shown on linked pages. These are in one of three formats - "Ants of (sub-Saharan) Africa" pages; "Ants of Egypt" pages; Ants from Iran pages.
AENICTINAE
 Aenictus dlusskyi Arnol'di
 Paknia et al, 2008, north Iran
 Aenictus dlusskyi
DORYLINAE
 Dorylus (Typhlopone) juvenculus Shuckard
 Paknia et al, 2008, south Iran - voucher in HMIM, Khuzestan province, Ahvaz, 4.X.1954, leg. Sal, 1 worker (HMIM), det. H. Alipanah.

Also see AntBase.net No. 00402, male specimen from
Khuzistan, Shush, 19-24.iii.1956, Richter and Schauffele
(images right of a major worker and a male from Israel as the type male is in a poor condition)
 Dorylus juvenculus major worker
Dorylus juvenculus male
PONERINAE Anochetus evansi Crawley
 Paknia et al, 2008, northwest Iran Anochetus evansi
PONERINAE
 Brachyponera sennaarensis (Mayr)
 O Paknia - ZMGU 001 - Fars Province, Lars City, xi.2001; & ZMGU 128 (queens) - Bandar-e-Kangan City, Bushehr Province, ii.2003
F Heidary - 13 - Siga, 03.v.2014

P 2008 S, SE (Cook, Paknia; as Pachycondyla sennaarensis); see AntBase.net No. 000865, Bushehr, Naiband NP, 18.vii.2007 indoor, O Paknia 		Brachyponera sennaarensis
PONERINAE
 Leptogenys maxillosa F Smith
 Ghahari 2011 ?
 Leptogenys maxillosa
PONERINAE
 Mesoponera ambigua (André)
 Ghahari 2011, 2015 ?

Seeming tramp species with reports on Antweb from Saudi Arabia
 Mesoponera ambigua
PONERINAE
 Ponera coarctata (Latreille)
 P 2008 N (Radchenko, as Ponera sp.)

ANTWEB1008082, Golestan, Tuskestan, Paknia 28.v.2005; also see AntBase.net No. 00861, same collection 		Ponera coarctata
PSEUDOMYRMICINAE
 Tetraponera ambigua (Emery)
 Ghahari 2011

Possibly Tetraponera erythraea known from Yemen and Saudia Arabia
 Tetraponera ambigua

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