Monomorium malamixtum Bolton

Type location Ivory Coast (Bolton, 1987: 423, not illustrated, worker & queen); collected at Man, Mt. Tonkoui, at 900 m (V. Mahnert & J.-L. Perret, 13.x.1980), holotype, 15 workers and 2 females; also 12 workers from Tai Forest (17.x.1980) (Bolton, 1987). Other material from Agboville, Yapo Forest, Tapo-Gare; and Banco National (I. Löbl, probably March 1977), and Dropleu (V. Mahnert & J.-L. Perret, October 1980) .

Bolton's description (1987) is at .

WORKER - TL 1.6-2.0 mm; minute species with eyes of a single ommatidium; colour brown .

Also from Togo, at Palimé, Klouto Forest (Vit) (Bolton, 1987).

The photomontage is of a paratype worker collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0902226

Oxford University Museum specimens

Monomorium malamixtum B Taylor det.

Cameroun G Debout & A Dalecky Cameroon 85

16.iv.2001 BOU 3°13.31' N 10°15.01' E

nest on a terrestrial termite nest

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The photomontage is of specimens collected in Cameroun; south-western tropical coastal forest area between Edéa and Campo (McKey Wolbachia project, Cameroon 85)

This is dark brown and shiny in appearance, and, has the acute ridge behind the metanotal groove, characteristic of malamixtum. This suggests that Bolton (1987) was right to suspect that the darker forms he had seen from Cameroun may well have been this species rather than cryptobium.