Key to Monomorium of Hispaniola

Additional information about the ants of the island can be found here: Ants of Hispaniola

Key to Workers

1

• Entire body, with the exeption of the entirely black gaster, and all appendages reddish-orange . . . . . Monomorium bicolor

• Not colored as above . . . . . 2

2

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• Head and dorsal mesosomal microreticulate, matte and not smoothly shiny; head yellow . . . . . Monomorium pharaonis

• Head and mesosomal dorsum mostly smooth and shining; any sculpture, if present, reduced; head brown to dark brown, not yellow . . . . . 3

3

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• Mesosoma and petiole clear yellow or at most light brownish, contrasting with dark brown or reddish brown head and gaster . . . . . Monomorium floricola

• Brown to dark brown head, mesosoma and gaster . . . . . Monomorium ebeninum