The Ants of Africa
Genus Monomorium
Monomorium noxitum Bolton

strangulatum-complex

Monomorium noxitum Bolton

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Cameroun (Bolton, 1987: 403, not illustrated); collected at Nko'emvon (D.A. Jackson, 1980), holotype and 8 paratype workers. Other specimens from Mt. Cameroun, Jonga (M. Steele) (Bolton, 1987) .


Bolton's description (1987) is at {original description}.

WORKER - TL 2.0-2.1 mm; large propodeal spiracle; head and alitrunk brown, with blackish-brown gaster; legs as alitrunk.

Presumably the Monomorium species 1 of Jackson (1984) from Nko'emvon, Cameroun, where it was the second most abundant species in pitfall traps (582 individuals) in one of her three study plots, apparently occupying the same quadrat as Pheidole species 2.


Monomorium noxitumThe photomontage is of the holotype worker collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0902240

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