The Ants of Africa
Genus Monomorium
Monomorium affabile Santschi

malatu-complex

Monomorium affabile Santschi

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Zaïre (Santschi, 1926b: 235, illustrated) collected at Banzyville by R.P. Augustin; holotype worker only known (Bolton, 1987) .


{Monomorium affabile}Santschi's (1926b) description is at {original description}. Bolton's modern description (1987) is at {original description}.

WORKER - Diagnosis as in key; TL 1.5 m; similar to malatu but smaller, with a narrower head and longer scapes; clypeus with well-defined carinae (in Bolton, 1987: 375, not illustrated). There is a curiosity as Bolton noted that it may be synonymous with malatu, but Santschi, who originally described both, actually decided that malatu, was a Tetramorium which he named as altinode.


{Monomorium affabile}The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0913548

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