Monomorium metoecus

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Monomorium metoecus Brown & Wilson, 1957 junior synonym of current valid taxon Monomorium carbonarium (Smith, 1858)

Monomorium metoecus Brown & Wilson, 1957b: 239, fig. 1 (eq.) U.S.A. (Alabama). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype ergatoid queen. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Alabama, Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Campus, “Smith Woods”, no. M-178 (E.O. Wilson). Primary 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.
Junior synonym of Monomorium carbonarium: Seifert, 2025: 67 (by implication).

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. PDF
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.
Seifert, B. 2025. The Monomorium carbonarium species group in the Nearctic and Europe (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Soil Organisms 97 (1):55-84. [online early] 10.25674/441 PDF
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. PDF
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. PDF

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