The Ants of Africa
Genus Monomorium
Monomorium madecassum Forel

leopoldinum-complex

Monomorium madecassum Forel

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Madagascar (Monomorium minutum Mayr, race M. madecassum n. stirps, .Forel, 1892l: 255, described on p 164; all forms) collected at Imerina by Père Camboué; revision by Heterick (2006: 128) - type specimen apparently lost from mount - see below
junior synonyms
leopoldinum (Monomorium minutum v. leopoldinum n. var., Forel, 1905b: 179, worker) from Zaïre, collected at St. Gabriel and Kisangani [Stanleyville] probably by H Kohl - see below
aequum (Santschi, 1928f: 195, illustrated worker) from Zaïre, collected at Kisangani, by Reichensperger - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0010828
estherae (Weber, 1943c: 361, illustrated, worker) from South Sudan - no images on Antweb (November 2018)
explorator (Monomorium explorator n. sp., Santschi, 1920b: 12, illustrated, worker) from Gabon, collected at Samkita, by Faure - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0010819
worker only described (see Bolton, 1995).
Also from Kenya (Bolton, 1987) .

Forel's (1892l) description the type is at {original description}. Forel's (1905b) description of leopoldinum is at {original description}. Santschi's (1920b) description of explorator is at {original description}. Santschi's (1928f) description of aequum is at {original description}. Weber's (1943c) description of estherae is at {original description}. Bolton's modern description (1987) of leopoldinum is at {original description}. Heterick's modern re-description (2006) is at {original description}.

{Monomorium madecassum}The photomontage of a worker from Madagascar is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0490190.

{Monomorium leopoldinum}The photomontage of the holotype leopoldinum is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0101856.

{Monomorium leopoldinum}{Monomorium leopoldinum estherae} WORKER - TL 1.9-2.4 mm; colour head and alitrunk orange-yellow to dull orange-brown, gaster contrasting blackish-brown, but with shagreening not reticulate-punctate sculpture (Bolton, 1987: 397, illustrated).
{Monomorium leopoldinum}

{Monomorium madecassum queen}The photomontage of the lectotype queen from Madagascar is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0101896.

{Monomorium madecassum}The photomontage of a male from Madagascar is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent01151118.

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