Monomorium minor

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Monomorium minor Stitz, 1923 valid

Monomorium salomonis var. minor Stitz, 1923: 156 (w.) NAMIBIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Type-material: 6 syntype workers. Type-localities: Namibia: Farm Neudamm (42 km. ENE Windhoek), 10-15.v.1911 (W. Michaelsen); Namibia: Kuibis, 15.vii.1911 (W. Michaelsen). Type-depository: unknown (not in MNHU, presumed lost). Type notes: Bolton, 1987: 351, says, “As far as can be ascertained no syntypes of this species remain in existence”.

[Misspelled as minus by Ettershank, 1966: 90.]
Subspecies of Monomorium salomonis: Ettershank, 1966: 90.
Status as species: Bolton, 1987: 350 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 264.

Obsolete combinations

Monomorium salomonis minor

Citations

Bolton, B. 1987. A review of the Solenopsis genus-group and revision of Afrotropical Monomorium Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 54:263-452. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
Stitz, H. 1923. Hymenoptera, VII. Formicidae. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Land- und Süsswasserfauna Deutsch-Südwestafrikas 2:143-167.

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