Monomorium bodenheimeri Menozzi
  Type location Egypt
(Menozzi, 1929e: 125, illustrated, worker); record in Menozzi (1929e),
cited by Finzi (1936), from Wadi Tarfa, Sinai (type location given in
Bolton, 1995, as Israel is wrong). Finzi (1936) noted "related to Mon.
chobauti and Mon. lameerei". No images on Antweb (February 2015)
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 Menozzi's
(1929e) description is at  . Pitch black with mandibles and appendages reddish brwon or lighter
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 Monomorium
chobauti - type location Algeria (Emery, 1896j: 418,
illustrated,
worker; see Emery 1908h: 672) - small eyes, extensive psammophore; reddish-yellow
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 Monomorium lameerei - type location Algeria
(Forel,
1902a: 150, worker; Santschi, 1907: 327, queen & male); ssp stauderi
(Wolf, 1914: 42, illustrated, worker) from Algeria - densely striated
on head and alitrunk.
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Oxford University Museum
specimens
Monomorium bodenheimeri
B Taylor det. |
Egypt
M Sharaf
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4.v.2003
Zaranik
30°39' N
34°26' E
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North Sinai, Abumadi
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2
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Monomorium bodenheimeri
B Taylor det. |
Egypt
M Sharaf |
6.iii.2003
Zaranik
30°39' N
34°26' E
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North Sinai, Abumadi |
1
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Monomorium bodenheimeri
B Taylor det. |
Egypt
M Sharaf |
21.ii.2003
Elqasmia Delbis
30°19' N
31°19' E
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1
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 Egypt
records - Type record Menozzi (1929e: 125) holotype worker only,
collected in Sinai, at Wadi Tarfa, by F S Bodenheimer, after whom it
was named.
The photomontage is of a worker from Abumadi, Zaranik,
N. Sinai, E 34°26' N 30°39'; 6.iii.2003, collector Mostafa Sharaf.
Apart from the somewhat narrower head than the Menozzi
drawing, all the characters appear to match Menozzi's description of bodenheimeri.
Note the colour varies from almost wholly dark brown/black to having a
largely red-brown alitrunk; note also the longitudinal striations on
the genae; frontal area narrow with a raised area between the raised
frontal carinae.
The species seems quite close to barbatulum
but that is described (and illustrated by Tarbinsky) as having the
petiole lower than the postpetiole.
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The photomontage is of a worker from Abumadi, Zaranik,
N. Sinai, E 34°26' N 30°39'; 4.v.2003, collector Mostafa Sharaf.
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