Protonym: Monomorium montanum
Authorship Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 350, fig. 24
Forms w.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality SAUDI ARABIA
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Saudi Arabia: Sawdah Mt, 2500 m., 18°17’N, 42°23’E, 9.iv.1983 (C.A. Collingwood). Primary type depository: 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: Sanam, 28.vi.1980 (W. Büttiker), paratype workers Saudi Arabia: Wadi Azizah, 18.ix.1983 (W. Büttiker), paratype workers Saudi Arabia: Bishah, 7.iv.1983 (C.A. Collingwood), paratype workers Saudi Arabia: An-Naamah, 8.iv.1983 (C.A. Collingwood). Secondary type depositories and specimens: NHMB: CASENT0913825; WMLC: CASENT0906345, CASENT0906346, CASENT0906347.
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 montanum Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Monomorium exiguum Forel, 1894
Original combination