The Ants of Africa
Genus Monomorium
Monomorium gabrielense Forel

strangulatum-complex

Monomorium gabrielense Forel

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Zaïre (Monomorium rhopalocerum Em. v. gabrielensis n. var., Forel, 1916: 418, worker & queen) collected at St. Gabriel, by Kohl ; (see Bolton, 1995). Also from Gabon at Ile aux Singes by J.A. Barra (Bolton, 1987) .


{Monomorium gabrielense}Forel's (1916) description is at {original description}. Specimen found in a termite nest. Bolton's modern description (1987) is at {original description}.

WORKER - TL 1.5-1.6 mm; with clypeal carinae close posteriorly, moderately diverging to anterior margin; smaller than the similar species draxocum and noxitum; colour also much lighter than those, being yellow, with a brownish tint to the gaster (Bolton, 1987, illustrated, head. alitrunk and pedicel profile).

Now known from Ghana. Found, 42 workers, in primary or secondary forest leaf litter at Sui Forest Reserve, Mabang, Jachie and Atewa Forest Reserve, and cocoa at Nankasi, by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).


{Monomorium gabrielense}The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0908715


Oxford University Museum specimens

Monomorium gabrielense
B Taylor det.
Cameroun
A Fotso Kuate
Monomorium sp6

24.vii.2007
Boga
03°54'30" N
11°25'58" E
Quadrat in forest
1
{album}

{Monomorium gabrielense}The photomontage is of a specimen from Cameroun; Boga; collector A Fotso Kuate (fk monomorium sp6)

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