Monomorium gabrielense Forel

Type location Zaïre (Monomorium rhopalocerum Em. v. gabrielensis n. var., Forel, 1916: 418, worker & queen) collected at St. Gabriel, by Kohl ; (see Bolton, 1995). Also from Gabon at Ile aux Singes by J.A. Barra (Bolton, 1987) .

Forel's (1916) description is at . Specimen found in a termite nest. Bolton's modern description (1987) is at .

WORKER - TL 1.5-1.6 mm; with clypeal carinae close posteriorly, moderately diverging to anterior margin; smaller than the similar species draxocum and noxitum; colour also much lighter than those, being yellow, with a brownish tint to the gaster (Bolton, 1987, illustrated, head. alitrunk and pedicel profile).

Now known from Ghana. Found, 42 workers, in primary or secondary forest leaf litter at Sui Forest Reserve, Mabang, Jachie and Atewa Forest Reserve, and cocoa at Nankasi, by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).

The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0908715

Oxford University Museum specimens

Monomorium gabrielense B Taylor det.

Cameroun A Fotso Kuate Monomorium sp6

24.vii.2007 Boga 03°54'30" N 11°25'58" E

Quadrat in forest

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The photomontage is of a specimen from Cameroun; Boga; collector A Fotso Kuate (fk monomorium sp6)