Monomorium speculiceps

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

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Monomorium speculiceps Santschi, 1928 junior synonym of current valid taxon Monomorium excelsior Arnold, 1926

Monomorium (Xeromyrmex) speculiceps Santschi, 1928f: 191, fig. 3a (w.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: South Africa: Cape Prov., Hermanus (Lockee-Bayne) (sent by Arnold). Primary type depository: NHMB.

Status as species: Ettershank, 1966: 92.
Junior synonym of Monomorium excelsior: Bolton, 1987: 344; Bolton, 1995b: 267.

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.
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
Santschi, F. 1928f. Descriptions de nouvelles fourmis éthiopiennes (suite). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 16:191-213. PDF

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