Protonym: Monomorium qarahe
| Authorship | Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 353 |
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| Forms | w. |
| Bioregion | Afrotropic |
| Locality | SAUDI ARABIA |
| Primary type information | Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Saudi Arabia: Qarah Village, 18°03’N, 42°45’E, 16.iv.1976 (W. Büttiker). Primary type depository: WMLC (cited as 1 “syntype” (Sharaf et al., 2017: 27), and as holotype + 1 paratype (Sharaf et al., 2018: 14)). Primary type specimen: CASENT0906344. |
| Secondary type information | Secondary type material: 1 paratype worker. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: WMLC. Secondary type depository: WMLC (cited as 1 “syntype” (Sharaf et al., 2017: 27), and as holotype + 1 paratype (Sharaf et al., 2018: 14)). |
| Type notes | 1) Sharaf et al., 2018: 14, give the coordinates of the type-locality as 18°05’N, 42°75’E, 2000 m. 2) 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 qarahe | Species |
Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Monomorium exiguum Forel, 1894
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Original combination |