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Al-Khalifa MS, Mashaly AM, Siddiqui MI, et al. Samsum ant, Brachyponera sennaarensis (Formicidae: Ponerinae): Distribution and abundance in Saudi Arabia. Saudi J Biol Sci. 2015;22(5):575-9doi: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2015.05.011.
Al-Khalifa, M. S., Mashaly, A. M., Siddiqui, M. I., & Al-Mekhlafi, F. A. (2015). Samsum ant, Brachyponera sennaarensis (Formicidae: Ponerinae): Distribution and abundance in Saudi Arabia. Saudi journal of biological sciences, 22(5), 575-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sjbs.2015.05.011
Al-Khalifa, Mohammed Saleh, et al. "Samsum ant, Brachyponera sennaarensis (Formicidae: Ponerinae): Distribution and abundance in Saudi Arabia." Saudi journal of biological sciences vol. 22,5 (2015): 575-9. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sjbs.2015.05.011
Al-Khalifa MS, Mashaly AM, Siddiqui MI, Al-Mekhlafi FA. Samsum ant, Brachyponera sennaarensis (Formicidae: Ponerinae): Distribution and abundance in Saudi Arabia. Saudi J Biol Sci. 2015 Sep;22(5):575-9. doi: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2015.05.011. Epub 2015 May 22. PMID: 26288561; PMCID: PMC4537870.
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Saudi J Biol Sci. 2015 Sep;22(5):575-9. doi: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2015.05.011. Epub 2015 May 22.

Samsum ant, Brachyponera sennaarensis (Formicidae: Ponerinae): Distribution and abundance in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi journal of biological sciences

Mohammed Saleh Al-Khalifa, Ashraf Mohamed Ali Mashaly, Mohammed Iqbal Siddiqui, Fahd Abdu Al-Mekhlafi

Affiliations

  1. Department of Zoology, College of Science, P.O. Box 2455, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
  2. Department of Zoology, College of Science, P.O. Box 2455, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia ; Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Minia University, El-Minia, Egypt.
  3. Department of Zoology, College of Science, P.O. Box 2455, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia ; Department of Agricultural Production, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Thamar University, Yemen.

PMID: 26288561 PMCID: PMC4537870 DOI: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2015.05.011

Abstract

Invasive species are capable of causing considerable damage to natural ecosystems, agriculture and economies throughout the World. Samsum ant, Brachyponera (Pachycondyla) sennaarensis has been a reason for medical implication and social nuisance through its poisonous and severely painful sting causing anaphylactic shock in many cases. We surveyed for the presence of the samsum ant in various provinces of Saudi Arabia. B. sennaarensis was the abundant Ponerinae species in human settlements. In the Eastern provinces, however, few samples were collected, and none were found in the Northern and Western provinces. Infestations of B. sennaarensis were particularly severe in the spring and summer seasons, when the ants make nests in moist areas and in cracks in cemented structures, whereas the extent of infestation reduced in winter seasons.

Keywords: Brachyponera (Pachycondyla) sennaarensis; Distribution; Ponerinae; Samsum ant; Saudi Arabia

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