Monomorium dakarense Santschi

Type location Senegal (Monomorium bicolor Em. stirps dakarensis n. st., Santschi, 1914d: 353, diagnosis in key, worker) from Dakar, collector F. Silvestri
worker only described (see Bolton, 1995). Syntype workers from Longa (Louga) (Roubaud), three specimens (Bolton, 1987) .

Santschi's (1914d) diagnosis is at . Bolton's modern description (1987) is at .

WORKER - TL 2.2-2.3 mm; colour head and alitrunk orange-yellow to dull orange-brown, gaster contrasting blackish-brown, but with shagreening not reticulate-punctate sculpture (Bolton, 1987: 339, not illustrated).

The photomontage is of the type worker collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0913570

Oxford University Museum specimens

Monomorium dakarense B Taylor det.	Senegal Djolof B Ndiaye	22.ii.2011 Widou 16°00'00" N 15°19' W	Widou 22-II-11 PIII B1 PB2 bis 42 m; Sahelian savannah, pitfall traps	2
Monomorium dakarense B Taylor det.	Senegal Lamine Diamé 58	22.vi.2012 Thiés 14°58'N 17°00'W	Noto V 40 tube 07	2

The photomontage is of a worker from Senegal, Thiés, collector Lamine Diamé (58).

The photomontage is of a worker from Senegal, Widou, collector B Ndiaye.

The photomontage is derived from that shown on http://sifolinia.blogspot.com/2008/04/monomorium-dakarense.html, taken by Mike Lush, Gambia, 3.iv.2007.