Protonym: Monomorium baushare
Authorship Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 342
Forms w.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality OMAN, YEMEN
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Oman: Sad Baushar, 23°33’N, 58°24’E, 2.i.1992 (M.D. Gallagher). Primary type depository: unknown (1 “syntype” detected in WMLC (Sharaf et al., 2017: 27), perhaps also ONHM). Primary type specimen: CASENT0906342.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type locality: paratype workers with same data as holotype, paratype workers Yemen: Rissabah, 8.x.1991 (A. van Harten), paratype workers Yemen: Wadi Surdud, 29.xi.1991 (A. van Harten), paratype workers Yemen: Hoddaida, Bajil, 15.iii.1993 (C.A. Collingwood). Secondary type depository: unknown (1 “syntype” detected in WMLC (Sharaf et al., 2017: 27), perhaps also ONHM).
Type notes 1) Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 301, say “All type material is housed in NHMB and duplicates placed in appropriate institutes and museums of the contributing countries”; this apparently was never done. 2) The single “syntype” is cited as holotype by Sharaf et al., 2018: 12.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Monomorium baushare Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Monomorium exiguum Forel, 1894
Original combination