Monomorium orangiae

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

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Monomorium orangiae Arnold, 1956 valid

Monomorium (Xeromyrmex) orangiae Arnold, 1956: 67, figs. 16, 16a (w.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: South Africa: Orange River, Kakamas, 3.xii.1953 (R.H.N. Smithers). Primary type depository: SAMC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 23 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, SAMC. Secondary type specimen: CASENT0902204.

Status as species: Ettershank, 1966: 91; Bolton, 1987: 354 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 265.

Citations

Arnold, G. 1956. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 12. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia. B. Natural Sciences 3:52-77. 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

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