Monomorium dolatu Bolton

Type location Cameroun, (Bolton, 1987: 384, not illustrated) collected at Nko'emvon by D.A. Jackson, 1980, holotype and 3 paratype workers .

Bolton's description (1987) is at .

WORKER - TL 1.4-1.5 mm; characterised by 11-segmented antennae and wedge-shaped petiole; also clypeal carinae sharply defined, anterior median portion of clypeus with sharply angle lateral margins meeting shallowly concave anterior margin; colour yellow, posterior of head somewhat darker and first gastral tergite with an apical broad brown band (Bolton, 1987).

Other findings from Ghana, at Mampong (P.M. Room), single specimen; and Ivory Coast, at Gagno (L. Brader), single specimen (Bolton, 1987).

Note - all the specimens from the McKey project (see below) have 12-segmented antennae. In all other aspects of the morphology, size and colour, apart from some having gastral tergites with large dark lateral spots, they match Bolton's description. As Bolton did not provide a drawing, without examining the holotype I cannot be sure of the correct situation but the Antweb photographs of the holotype confirm the almost exact resemblance.

The photomontage is of the holotype worker collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0902238

Oxford University Museum specimens

Monomorium dolatu B Taylor det.	Cameroun G Debout & A Dalecky Cameroon 05	24.iii.2001 Ebodjé 2°33.97' N 9°50.62' E	caulinary domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana	2
Monomorium dolatu B Taylor det.	Cameroun G Debout & A Dalecky Cameroon 19	25.iii.2001 MAM 2°34.07' N 9°53.80' E	caulinary domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana	2
Monomorium dolatu B Taylor det.	Cameroun G Debout & A Dalecky Cameroon 31	05.iv. 2001 Kienké 2°52.02' N 9°59.13' E	swamp/river alongside plantations, marshy land in pouch-like stipules of a Rubiaceae	1
Monomorium dolatu B Taylor det.	Cameroun G Debout & A Dalecky Cameroon 36	05.iv.2001 PIR 3°07.35' N 10°00.67' E	caulinary domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana	1
Monomorium dolatu B Taylor det.	Cameroun G Debout & A Dalecky Cameroon 55	10.iv.2001 Ebodjé 2°33.97' N 9°50.62' E	caulinary domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana	2
Monomorium dolatu B Taylor det.	Cameroun G Debout & A Dalecky Cameroon 112	25.iii.2001 Ebodjé 2°33.97' N 9°50.62' E	caulinary domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana	1

The photomontages are of specimens collected in Cameroun - south-western tropical coastal forest area between Edéa and Campo (McKey Wolbachia project, Cameroon 19). . All samples from caulinary domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana, except 55, which were found in a bunch of Leonardoxa twigs, taken to the laboratory for raising Keratoplatidan flies.

Worekr as above, Cameroon 36.