Monomorium

Mohamed, S., Zalat, S. & Fadl, H., 2001, Taxonomy of ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) collected by pitfall traps from Sinai and Delta region, Egypt., Egyptian Journal of Natural History 3, pp. 40-61 : 52

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.4314/ejnh.v3i1.30001

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6279276

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scientific name

Monomorium
status

 

Genus Monomorium View in CoL   HNS Mayr, 1855

Monomorium   HNS Mayr,1855: Verh. zool. Bot. Ges. Wien.5:452.

Type-species: Monomorium minutum Mayr   HNS , 1855: Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien.5: 453.

Distribution: Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental, Australian, Polynesian, Nearctic & Neotropical regions.

Key to species

1- Antennae with terminal funiculus segment longer than the two preceeding segments together (Fig.36), unicolourous, body entirely dark black, dorsum of alitrunk without projecting hairs (Fig.37) ........................ ........................ M. carbonarium (Smith)   HNS

- Antennae with terminal funiculus segment shorter than the two preceeding segments together (Fig. 38); bicolourous, head, alitrunk, nodes and appendages red, gaster black; dorsum of alitrunk with projecting hairs (Fig. 39)......... M. niloticum Emery   HNS

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

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