Protonym: Monomorium fezzanense
Authorship Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 346
Forms w.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality SAUDI ARABIA. OMAN
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Saudi Arabia: Jabal Banban, 16.iii.1978 (W. Büttiker). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps NHMB, ONHM, WMLC).
Secondary type information Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type locality: paratype workers with same data as holotype, paratype workers Saudi Arabia: N Tabuk, 24.iv.1979, (N Hedjaz Expd.) (W. Büttiker), paratype workers Saudi Arabia: Al-Tawlah, 7.iii.1983 (C.A. Collingwood), paratype workers Oman: Khabura Batina, 2.vi.1979 (R.P. Whitcombe), paratype workers Oman: Thumrait, iv.1984 (J.M. Barnes). Secondary type depository: NHMB (perhaps also ONHM, WMLC). Secondary type specimen: CASENT0913557.
Type notes 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.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Monomorium fezzanense Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Monomorium areniphilum Santschi, 1911
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