Monomorium ophthalmicum

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

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Monomorium ophthalmicum Forel, 1894 valid

Monomorium ophthalmicum Forel, 1894b: 87 (w.) ETHIOPIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Ethiopia (“Südabessinien”): (no further data) (A. Ilg). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0908711.

Status as species: Emery, 1922c: 173; Wheeler, 1922: 864; Ettershank, 1966: 91; Bolton, 1987: 353 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 265.

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.
Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
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
Forel, A. 1894b. Abessinische und andere afrikanische Ameisen, gesammelt von Herrn Ingenieur Alfred Ilg, von Herrn Dr. Liengme, von Herrn Pfarrer Missionar P. Berthoud, Herrn Dr. Arth. Müller etc. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 9:64-100. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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