Monomorium baushare Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 Fig. 11

Monomorium baushare Collingwood & Agosti, 1996. - Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15: 342. (Oman).

Specimens examined: Yemen, Socotra Island: 11 ☿☿, Adho Dimello, base camp, 12°34N 54°02E, 940 m, 03.II.1999, H. Pohl, HLMD-Hym-2084, NHCY, CCC ; 8 ☿☿, Goeeh, 12°32'N 54°10'E, 240 m, 23.X.2000, H. Pohl, HLMD-Hym-2085, NHCY, CCC .

Remarks: This minute yellow species has been described from Yemen and Oman and is very similar to a group of Afrotropical Monomorium species with 11-segmented antennae, including M. exiguum Forel, 1894, which in itself is probably an amalgamate of sibling species (Bolton 1987). It differs from M. exiguum by the flatter ventral head surface and longer scapes (SI 85-91 compared to 74-84). Like other species of the M. monomorium-group sensu Bolton (1987), particularly those with reduced eyes, M. baushare apparently inhabits leaf litter or topsoil.