Monomorium opacum

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Monomorium opacum Forel, 1913 valid

Monomorium opacum Forel, 1913b: 333 (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo (“Congo belge”): Katanga, Shinsenda, 10.vi.1912 (J. Bequaert). Primary type depositories: MHNG, MRAC. Primary type specimen: CASENT0908734.

Status as species: Emery, 1922c: 177; Wheeler, 1922: 864; Ettershank, 1966: 91; Bolton, 1987: 353 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 265.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1987. A review of the Solenopsis genus-group and revision of Afrotropical Monomorium Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 54:263-452. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
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
Forel, A. 1913b. Formicides du Congo Belge récoltés par MM. Bequaert, Luja, etc. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 2:306-351. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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