Monomorium captator Santschi

Type location Zaïre (Monomorium (Monomorium) captator, Santschi, 1932a: 385, illustrated; Santschi, 1936a: 43, worker) collected at Ronga (holotype only) - see below
Worker only described (see Bolton, 1995). Also from Gabon, Libreville, by F. Brunck (Bolton, 1987) .

Santschi's (1932a) use of the name and very brief note, with illustration, is (bottom of the page) at . Santschi's (1936a) description is at . Bolton's modern description (1987) is at .

WORKER - TL 1.8-1.9 mm (Bolton, 1987: 382, not illustrated).

It seems clear that the undescribed specimen illustrated (right) by Santschi (1932a) was not the specimen he later described (Santschi, 1936a). Bolton did not give an illustration and does not state explicitly the specimens he used to compile his description, i.e the holotype from Ronga or the others from Libreville. Santschi (1936a) gave the erect pilosity as quite long, fine and pointed but sparse on the body. Bolton has the "dense alitrunk pilosity" as a distinguishing feature!

The specimen in Santschi's drawing looks very similar to Monomorium rosae that also was described by Santschi (1920b) as from Zaïre.

The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0913566.