title: Five new records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Morocco.
abstract: A recent catalogue of the rich ant fauna of Morocco included 214 species, with later studies adding an additional 12 species. Following recent fieldwork in the north of Morocco, we report five new records for the country (Plagiolepis pygmaea Latreille, 1798, Ponera testacea Emery, 1895, Strumigenys tenuipilis Emery, 1915, Temnothorax pardoi Tinaut, 1987, and Tetramorium parvioculum Guillem & Bensusan, 2009) and we present new data on the distribution and natural history of six additional species. This work brings the total number of ants known from Morocco to 233, taking into account two species which were omitted in the list of Cagniant.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire "Ecologie, Biodiversité & Environnement", Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi, BP.2121 Tétouan, Morocco amd.taheri@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Ahmed
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Taheri
authors.affiliation: Area of Ecology, University of Cordoba, Building C-4 "Celestino Mutis" Rabanales Campus, Cordoba, Spain.
authors.forename: Joaquin L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Reyes-López
mesh_terms: D063147:Animal Distribution; D000818:Animals; D001000:Ants / Q000502:physiology*; D044822:Biodiversity; D009018:Morocco
keywords: Formicidae; Morocco; checklist; distribution; faunistic