Monomorium distinctum

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

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Monomorium distinctum Arnold, 1944 junior synonym of current valid taxon Monomorium havilandi Forel, 1910

Monomorium (Xeromyrmex) distinctum Arnold, 1944: 11, figs. 18, 18a-f (w.m.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Type-material: syntype workers, syntype males (numbers not stated). Type-locality: South Africa: Natal, Weenen, x.1939 (H.P. Thomasset). Type-depositories: MCZC, SAMC.

Status as species; Arnold, 1958: 119; Ettershank, 1966: 88.
Junior synonym of Monomorium havilandi: Bolton, 1987: 368; Bolton, 1995b: 261.

Citations

Arnold, G. 1944. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 5. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2:1-38. PDF
Arnold, G. 1958. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 13. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia. B. Natural Sciences 3:119-143. PDF
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

Extant: 0 valid subspecies (1 synonym)

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