Protonym: Monomorium matame
Authorship Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 350, fig. 22
Forms w.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality OMAN
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Oman: Wadi Matam, 1.ii.1986 (M.D. Gallagher). Primary type depository: WMLC. Primary type specimen: CASENT0922325.
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: Nuayriyah, 20.v.1980 (W. Büttiker), paratype workers Yemen: Sana’a, ii.1991 (A. van Harten). Secondary type depository: perhaps NHMB if Büttiker material was returned, perhaps also ONHM if Gallagher material has been retained there).
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) Some van Harten material is in TAUI.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Monomorium matame Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Monomorium niloticum Emery, 1881
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