The Ants of Africa
Genus Monomorium Monomorium noxitum Bolton
strangulatum-complex
Monomorium noxitum Bolton
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 .
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.