Monomorium floricola (Jerdon)
  Type location India (Atta
Floricola n.s., Jerdon, 1851: 107, worker) - no images on Antweb
(February 2015)
subspecies
furinum (Monomorium
floricola Jerd. var. furina
n. var., Forel,1911i: 221, worker) from Sri Lanka, Peradeniya -
see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0908699
philippinense (Monomorium
floricola Jerdon var. philippinensis
var. nov., Forel, 1910d: 123, worker &
queen) from the Philippines, Luzon, C S Banks - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0908698
junior
synonyms
angusticlava (Monomorium
angusticlava n. sp., Donisthorpe, 1947d: 189, worker) from New
Guinea - see below
cinnabari (Monomorium
cinnabari nov. sp., Roger, 1863a: 199, worker) from Cuba -
no images on Antweb (February 2015)
poecilum (Monomorium
poecilum nov. sp., Roger, 1863a: 199, worker & queen)
from Cuba - no images on Antweb (February 2015)
floreanum (Monomorium
floreanum n. sp., Stitz, 1932a: 368, illustrated, worker
& queen) from Galapagos Is. - no images on Antweb
(February 2015)
impressum (Monomorium
impressum, F Smith, 1867a: 447, queen & male)
from Rodriguez Is. - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0010942
specularis (Monomorium
specularis n. sp., Mayr, 1866a: 509, worker) from Samoa -
no images on Antweb (February 2015)
(see
Bolton, 1995)  .
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 Jerdon's
(1851) description is at  . Mayr's (1866a)
description, with his
synonymy with floricola (1879: 671) is at  . Wheeler (1905b: 87) gave an illustration
of the ergatoid female (from the Bahamas), this is at  . Bolton's modern description (1987) is at  .
The Forel varieties appear almost identical to the type
worker. M. angusticlava was
described as having the head and gaster black (Donisthorpe, 1947)
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 Nigeria
specimen (Taylor, 1980a: 29). WORKER. TL 1.65 mm, HL 0.39, HW 0.33, SL
0.23, PW 0.20
Colour orange-brown, head darker, gaster very dark near black,
unsculptured and shiny. Erect hairs relatively long and moderately
abundant.
A pan-global tramp species, including wide establishment
in hothouses in temperate zones (Bolton, 1987: 390, not illustrated).
In Nigeria, found in a rotten log (B. Bolton) and
also collected by me inside the laboratories at CRIN. Listed from Lagos
(F. Silvestri) by Wheeler (1922).
Found in Ghana, on cocoa at Kade by Majer (1975;
identified by Bolton (not in Bolton, 1987); also found, 13 workers, in
cocoa leaf litter at Kade, by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b). Bolton
(1987) listed findings at CRIG (B. Bolton; C.A. Collingwood), Legon and
Kibi (D. Leston).
Also from Togo, at Tové (B. Dufour); and Cameroun,
at Nko'emvon (D.A. Jackson).
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 The
photomontage of the lectotype worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0916008
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Oxford University Museum
specimens
Monomorium floricola
B Taylor det. |
Cameroun
A Fotso Kuate
Sample 11
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31.viii.2008
Barombi
03°54'30" N
11°25'58" E
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aphid survey
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1
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Monomorium floricola
B Taylor det. |
Cameroun
A Fotso Kuate
Sample 17
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31.viii.2008
Balangue
03°54'30" N
11°25'58" E
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1
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Monomorium floricola
B Taylor det. |
Gabon
A Fotso Kuate
Sample 45
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15.ix.2008
Mbilazambo
03°54'30" N
11°25'58" E
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1
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Monomorium floricola
B Taylor det. |
Cameroun
A Fotso Kuate
Sample 79
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28.vii.2010
Nko’ondo
03°54'30" N
11°25'58" E
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1
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Monomorium floricola
B Taylor det. |
Rep. of Congo
D De Bakker & JP Michiels
ex Y Braet
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18.ix.2007
Mayombe
05°37'16" S
13°05'54" E
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266 m asl
Canopy fogging
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2
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 The photomontage is of a
specimen from Cameroun; Barombi; aphid survey; 31.vii.2008;
coll. A Fotso Kuate (fk unmounted 17)
Matches the Nigeria specimen I drew in size and
morphology.
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 The photomontage is of a
specimen from Congo; Mayombe; collectors De Bakker &
Michiel.
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 The
photomontage of the angusticlava type from Irian Jaya (Dutch
New Guinea) is adapted from the Antweb.org site at http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0010954
Other Illustrations can be seen on the Japanese
Ant Color Image Database.
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