Monomorium humilior

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

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Monomorium humilior Forel, 1910 valid

Monomorium rothsteini var. humilior Forel, 1910b: 27 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Northern Territory). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Sparks et al., 2014: 507). Primary type locality: lectotype Australia: Northern Territory (“Central Australia”), Tennant Creek (J.F. Field). Primary type depository: MHNG. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 2 paralectotype workers, 1 paralectotype queen. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MHNG. Type notes: 1) No queen is mentioned in the original description. 2) Genbank accession numbers: KC572889–572892, KC572943–572945, KC572953.

Lectotype designation: Sparks et al., 2014: 507.
Wheeler, 1917b: 112 (q.); Sparks et al., 2014: 508 (m.).
Combination in Chelaner: Ettershank, 1966: 97.
Combination in Monomorium: Taylor, 1987b: 3.
Subspecies of Monomorium rothsteini: Emery, 1922c: 171; Ettershank, 1966: 97; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 58; Taylor, 1987a: 20; Bolton, 1995b: 262.
Junior synonym of Monomorium rothsteini: Heterick, 2001: 408.
Status as species: Sparks et al., 2014: 507 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

Monomorium rothsteini humilior

Citations

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. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18:1-94. PDF
Heterick, B. E. 2001. Revision of the Australian ants of the genus Monomorium (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15:353-459. PDF
Sparks, K. S.; Andersen, A. N.; Austin, A. D. 2014. Systematics of the Monomorium rothsteini Forel species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a problematic ant group in Australia. Zootaxa 3893 (4):489-529. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1987b. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). First supplement, 10 July, 1987. CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41(Suppl.1):1-5.
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
Wheeler, W. M. 1917b. The phylogenetic development of subapterous and apterous castes in the Formicidae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 3:109-117. PDF

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