Protonym: Monomorium yemene
Authorship Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 357, fig. 32
Forms w.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality YEMEN
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Yemen: Taiz, 20.x.1991 (A. van Harten).
Secondary type information Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type locality: paratype workers with same data as holotype, paratype workers Yemen: Zingibar-Shuqrah, 21.iii.1993 (C.A. Collingwood). Secondary type depository: NHMB (1 paratype cited by Sharaf et al., 2021: 40, who also say the holotype is presumed lost). Secondary type specimen: CASENT0913865.
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 present in TAUI.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Monomorium yemene Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Monomorium nitidiventre Emery, 1893
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