Monomorium subdentatum Forel

Type location Zaïre (Monomorium subdentatum n. sp., Forel, 1913b: 332, worker) collected at Lumbumbashi [Elizabethville], J. Bequaert, 23.iv.1912 .

Forel's (1913b) description is at . Bolton's modern description (1987) is at .

WORKER - TL 3.1-3.3 mm; separation as in key; colour medium to dark brown, with dense sharp reticulo-puncturate sculpturation. Very close to the southern/east African species opacum from which it differs in having a sharply defined, or subdentate, angle between the dorsum and declivity of the propodeum; plus the anterior border of the clypeus being concave (Bolton, 1987: 359, not illustrated).

The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0908745