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Monomorium phoenicum
| Monomorium phoenicum | |
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| Scientific classification (junior synonym of Monomorium bicolor) | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Solenopsidini |
| Genus: | Monomorium |
| Species: | Monomorium phoenicum Santschi, 1927
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This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Monomorium bicolor.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- phoenicum. Monomorium (Xeromyrmex) subopacum var. phoenicum Santschi, 1927d: 242.
- Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated).
- Type-localities: Lebanon: Tripoli (no collector’s name), Egypt: Suez (no collector’s name), Israel (“Palestine”) (no further data).
- Type-depositories: MSNG, NHMB.
- [First available use of Monomorium salomonis subsp. subopacum var. phoenicia Emery, 1908h: 677 (w.q.) LEBANON; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
- [Misspelled as phaenicium by Santschi, 1934d: 277; misspelled as phoenicium by Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, 2014: 135.]
- Wheeler, W.M. & Mann, 1916: 170 (m.).
- As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, W.M. & Mann, 1916: 170; Donisthorpe, 1918b: 166; Emery, 1922e: 178; Emery, 1924a: 9; Kutter, 1928: 66; Ettershank, 1966: 91.
- Subspecies of subopacum: Menozzi, 1933b: 62; Menozzi, 1934: 161; Santschi, 1934d: 277; Finzi, 1936: 177; Finzi, 1940: 161.
- Subspecies of salomonis: Weber, 1952c: 14.
- Status as species: Collingwood, 1985: 272; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 55; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 272 (in key); Collingwood, 1993b: 194; Bolton, 1995b: 266; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 353; Petrov, 2006: 94 (in key); Legakis, 2011: 15; Collingwood, et al. 2011: 435; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 519; Borowiec, L. 2014: 124; Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, 2014: 135; Lebas, et al. 2016: 304; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2020: 14.
- Junior synonym of bicolor: Sharaf, Mohamed, Boudinot, et al. 2021: 26.
References
- Agosti, D. and C. A. Collingwood. 1987a. A provisional list of the Balkan ants (Hym. Formicidae) and a key to the worker caste. I. Synonymic list. Mitt. Schweiz. Entomol. Ges. 60: 51-62 (page 55, see also)
- Collingwood, C. A. 1985. Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna Saudi Arab. 7: 230-302 (page 272, Raised to species)
- Collingwood, C. A. and D. Agosti. 1996. Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (part 2). Fauna Saudi Arabia. 15:300-385. (page 353, see also)
- Emery, C. 1908j. Beiträge zur Monographie der Formiciden des paläarktischen Faunengebietes. (Hym.) Teil V. Dtsch. Entomol. Z. 1908: 663-686 (page 677, [First available use of Monomorium salomonis subsp. subopacum var. phoenicia Emery, 1908h: 677; unavailable name.])
- Kiran, K., Karaman, C. 2020. Additions to the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoosystema 42(18), 285-329 (doi:10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a18).
- Santschi, F. 1927e. Révision myrmécologique. Bull. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 67: 240-248 (page 242, worker, queen described)
- Sharaf, M.R., Mohamed, A.A., Boudinot, B.E., Wetterer, J.K., Hita Garcia, F., Al Dhafer, H.M., Aldawood, A.S. 2021. Monomorium (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Arabian Peninsula with description of two new species, M. heggyi sp. n. and M. khalidi sp. n. PeerJ 9, e10726. (doi:10.7717/peerj.10726).
- Wheeler, W. M.; Mann, W. M. 1916. The ants of the Phillips Expedition to Palestine during 1914. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 60: 167-174 (page 170, male described)