Monomorium (Parholcomyrmex) kempi Mukerjee, 1930: 154, fig. 2 (w.) INDIA. Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “several specimens”). Type-locality: Country/State indeterminate: Seistan desert, Labi Baring (N. Annandale & S.W. Kemp). Type-depository: unknown (no type-material known to exist). Type notes: 1) Seistan desert lies in eastern Iran, southern Afghanistan, and western Pakistan. Bharti et al., 2016: 39, record the species as Indian (Sikkim, West Bengal). 2) Mukerjee says that the specimens are deposited in “Zoological Survey of India, Indian Museum, Calcutta”, now NZSI, but they have apparently been lost.