The ant genus Carebara Westwood in the Arabian Peninsula (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

ZooKeys

Volumn 357, Issue , 2013, Pages 67-83

  Sharaf, Mostafa R ^a   Aldawood, Abdulrahman S ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Key; Myrmicinae; New species; Palearctic region; Saudi Arabia; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889248848     PISSN: 13132989     EISSN: 13132970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.357.5946     Document Type: Article

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