The Ants of Africa
Genus Monomorium
Monomorium musicum Forel

boerorum-complex

Monomorium musicum Forel

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location South Africa (Monomorium Oscaris Forel, subsp. musicum n. subsp., Forel, 1910e: 442, worker & queen; raised to species, Emery, 1922e: 173)
worker & queen only described (see Bolton, 1995) .


Forel's (1910e) description is at {original description}. Arnold (1916: 230) gave a translation, this is at {original description}. Bolton's modern description (1987) is at {original description}.

WORKER - TL 1.6-1.7 mm (in Bolton, 1987: 402, not illustrated).


Monomorium musicumThe photomontage is of the holotype worker collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0902258

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