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SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Monomorium
Monomorium monomorium (Mayr) Bolton

monomorium-complex

Monomorium monomorium Bolton

return to key  Type location Italy (Monomorium minutum n. sp., Mayr, 1855: 453, worker; Mayr, 1865: 91, queen & male; replacement name by Bolton, 1987) Lombardy - no type images on Antweb (October 2015)
all forms described (see Bolton, 1987, 1995)
Included here for comparative purposes with other Monomorium (Monomorium) species originally described as varieties, etc.


{Monomorium monomorium} {Monomorium monomorium}Mayr's (1855) description is at {original description}. Mayr's (1865) description of the queen and male, with notes, is at {original description} Arnold (1916: 217) gave a translation as minutum, this is at {original description}. Emery (1908h: 671) gave a description, this is at {original description}.

WORKER - TL 1.5-1.7 mm (in Bolton, 1987: 288, not illustrated nor described).


Monomorium monomoriumThe photomontage of a worker from Portugal is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0246069

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