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Volume 30, No. (2), 2020 (April)
DISTRIBUTION AND TROPHIC ASSOCIATIONS OF ANT GENUS MONOMORIUM MAYR, 1855 (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE: MYRMICINAE) WITH APHIDS IN POTHWAR REGION OF PAKISTAN
M. T. Rasheed1, I. Bodlah1*, A. Gull-e-Fareen1,2, H. Ali3, M. A. Bodlah4and M. U. Raja5

2Department of Environmental Sciences, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
3Department of Entomology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Sub Campus Depalpur,Okara, Pakistan
4Fareed Biodiversity and Conservation Centre, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan
 5Department of Plant Pathology, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Corresponding Author: imranbodlah@gmail.com
Page Number(s): 391-397
Published Online First: March 02, 2020
Publication Date: March 02, 2020
ABSTRACT

Two species of genus Monomorium Mayr, 1855 namely Monomorium indicum Forel, 1902 and Monomorium sagei Forel, 1902 have been recorded for the first time from Pothwar region of Pakistan. Currently a total of five species of this genus have been documented from Pakistan. Conservation status of two newly recorded species has also been discussed. Both species have been described here using Bingham (1903). Morphological characters of prosoma, mesosoma and metasoma were used for the identification of the species. Description has been supported with micrographs of identification characters, morphometric, world distribution and GPS coordinates of Pakistan. Trophic associations of both species with aphid partners are also reported for the first time from Pakistan. M. indicum was found to be associated with 2 aphid species namely, Aphis gossypii Glover, 1877 and Aphis fabae Scopoli, 1763 while M. sagei lived in associations with Greenidea (Trichosiphum) psidii van der Goot, 1917, Aphis gossypiiA. fabae and A. fabae solanella Theobald, 1914.

Keywords: Monomorium, Myrmicinae, Aphid associations, Pothwar, Pakistan

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