Monomorium yemene

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Monomorium yemene
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Monomorium nitidiventre)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Solenopsidini
Genus: Monomorium
Species: Monomorium yemene
Collingwood & Agosti, 1996

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Specimen Labels

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Monomorium nitidiventre.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • yemene. Monomorium yemene Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 357, fig. 32 (w.) YEMEN.
    • Type-material: holotype worker, paratype workers (number not stated).
    • Type-locality: holotype Yemen: Taiz, 20.x.1991 (A. van Harten); paratypes: workers with same data, workers Yemen: Zingibar-Shugra, 21.iii.1993 (C.A. Collingwood).
    • Type-depository: unknown (possibly in WMLC).
    • Status as species: Borowiec, L. 2014: 127.
    • Distribution: Yemen.

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