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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
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Formicidae
›
Myrmicinae
›
Solenopsidini
›
Monomorium
›
Monomorium metoecus
Monomorium
metoecus
Brown & Wilson, 1957
junior synonym of current valid taxon
Monomorium minimum
(Buckley, 1867)
Monomorium metoecus
Brown & Wilson, 1957b
: 239, fig. 1 (eq.) U.S.A. (Alabama). Nearctic.
Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype ergatoid queen. Type-locality: U.S.A.: Alabama, Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Campus, “Smith Woods”, no. M-178 (
E.O. Wilson
). Type-depository:
MCZC
.
[Misspelled as
methoecus
by
Kutter, 1968c
: 203.]
Wilson & Brown, 1958a
: 33 (w.)
Status as species:
Wilson & Brown, 1958a
: 33;
Smith, 1967a
: 356;
Kutter, 1968c
: 203 (error).
Junior synonym of
Monomorium minimum
:
Brown, 1966d
: 90;
Smith, 1979
: 1382;
DuBois, 1986
: 76;
Bolton, 1995b
: 264.
Citations
Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr.
1966d.
[Untitled. Taxonomic changes in
Monomorium
attributed to Brown.].
P. 90 in:
Ettershank, G.
1966.
A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to
Solenopsis
and
Pheidologeton
(Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171.
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Brown, W. L., Jr.
;
Wilson, E. O.
1957b.
A new parasitic ant of the genus
Monomorium
from Alabama, with a consideration of the status of genus
Epixenus
Emery.
Entomological News 68:239-246.
PDF
DuBois, M. B.
1986.
A revision of the native New World species of the ant genus
Monomorium
(
minimum
group) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
University of Kansas Science Bulletin 53:65-119.
PDF
Kutter, H.
1968c ("1967").
Liste sozialparasitischer Ameisen.
Archives. Institut Grand-Ducal de Luxembourg (n.s.)33:201-210.
Smith, D. R.
1979.
Superfamily Formicoidea.
Pp. 1323-1467 in:
Krombein, K. V.
;
Hurd, P. D.
;
Smith, D. R.
;
Burks, B. D.
(eds.) 1979.
Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata).
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
Smith, M. R.
1967a.
Family Formicidae.
Pp. 343-374 in:
Krombein, K. V.
;
Burks, B. D.
(eds.) 1967.
Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalog. Second supplement. United States Department of Agriculture.
Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 2):1-584.
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Wilson, E. O.
;
Brown, W. L., Jr.
1958a.
The worker caste of the parasitic ant
Monomorium metoecus
Brown and Wilson, with notes on behavior.
Entomological News 69:33-38.
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