Monomorium monomorium

This is a widespread tramp species. In Greece most records are from tourist resorts or suburban and urban areas. It prefers warm habitats, in Achaia, Greece being found on limestone rocks inside mediterranean oak forest and on warm pasture with mediterranean oaks (Borowiec & Salata, 2021).

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Niue, Singapore. Malagasy Region: Seychelles. Neotropical Region: Bermuda, Brazil. Oriental Region: India, Nepal, Sri Lanka. Palaearctic Region: Bulgaria, Canary Islands, China, Croatia, Greece, Iberian Peninsula, Israel, Italy, Montenegro, Republic of Korea, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey.

Nomenclature

 * minutum. Monomorium minutum Mayr, 1855: 453 (w.) ITALY.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-localities: Italy: Lombardy (Villa), Italy: Veneto, Lido I., nr Venice (Strobel), Italy: ‘Papal State’, nr Imola (Pirazzoli).
 * Type-depository: NHMW.
 * [Misspelled as monutum by Santschi, 1926b: 238; misspelled as minitum by Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, 2014: 135.]
 * [Junior secondary homonym of Atta minuta Jerdon, 1851: 105.]
 * Combination in Myrmica: Nylander, 1856b: 101 (footnote).
 * Mayr, 1865: 91 (q.m.); Santschi, 1936a: 42 (m.).
 * Status as species: Nylander, 1856b: 101 (footnote); Smith, F. 1858b: 123; Mayr, 1861: 72 (in key); Mayr, 1862: 753; Roger, 1863b: 31; Mayr, 1863: 429; Mayr, 1865: 91; Mayr, 1866a: 509; Emery, 1869b: 20; Dours, 1873: 169; André, 1874: 199 (in key); Emery & Forel, 1879: 456; André, 1881b: 68; André, 1883a: 333 (in key); Mayr, 1886d: 455; Cresson, 1887: 262; Forel, 1889: 257; Forel, 1891b: 164 (redescription); Dalla Torre, 1893: 67; Emery, 1895h: 26; Bingham, 1903: 210; Wheeler, W.M. 1908e: 423; Emery, 1908h: 680; Wheeler, W.M. 1909g: 183; Forel, 1910c: 252; Forel, 1911d: 338; Forel, 1912a: 55; Forel, 1913f: 191; Santschi, 1914b: 72; Emery, 1914d: 157; Forel, 1915d: 39 (in key); Donisthorpe, 1915d: 337; Emery, 1916b: 160; Arnold, 1916: 217; Bondroit, 1918: 142; Emery, 1922e: 172; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 864, 1027; Müller, 1923b: 77; Wheeler, W.M. 1923b: 3; Wheeler, W.M. 1923c: 4; Wheeler, W.M. 1924b: 246; Soudek, 1925b: 16; Stärcke, 1926: 86 (in key); Donisthorpe, 1927b: 387; Kutter, 1927: 99; Wheeler, W.M. 1928d: 113; Wheeler, W.M. 1929g: 44; Finzi, 1930d: 313; Wheeler, W.M. 1930a: 99; Menozzi, 1933b: 65 (in key); Wheeler, W.M. 1934h: 13; Grandi, 1935: 100; Zimmermann, 1935: 27; Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 23; Santschi, 1936a: 42; Teranishi, 1940: 13, 57; Weber, 1943c: 359; Kusnezov, 1949a: 425; Azuma, 1951: 87; Consani & Zangheri, 1952: 41; Ceballos, 1956: 305; Baltazar, 1966: 259; Cagniant, 1966b: 279; Ettershank, 1966: 90; Bernard, 1967: 167 (redescription); Wilson & Taylor, 1967: 67; Cagniant, 1968a: 143; Cagniant, 1970a: 418; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 89; Kempf, 1972a: 144; Aktaç, 1977: 122; Collingwood, 1978: 82 (in key); Onoyama, 1980: 198; Dlussky, 1994: 54; Tiwari, 1999: 58 (error); Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 304 (error); Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, 2014: 135 (error).
 * Replacement name: Monomorium monomorium Bolton, 1987: 287.
 * . Monomorium monomorium Bolton, 1987: 287.
 * Replacement name for Monomorium minutum Mayr, 1855: 453. [Junior secondary homonym of Atta minuta Jerdon, 1851: 105.]
 * Status as species: Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 55; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 272 (in key); Brandão, 1991: 357; Bolton, 1995b: 264; Poldi, et al. 1995: 4; Wetterer & Wetterer, 2004: 215; Ghosh, et al. 2005: 28; Bračko, 2006: 137; Cagniant, 2006a: 196; Petrov, 2006: 94 (in key); Bračko, 2007: 17; Fernández, 2007b: 137; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 489; Vonshak, et al. 2009: 43; Karaman, M.G. 2011b: 42; Legakis, 2011: 14; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 47; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 518; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 46; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 21; Borowiec, L. 2014: 122; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 39; Lebas, et al. 2016: 302; Steiner, et al. 2017: 13; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2018: 6; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 47; Dekoninck, et al. 2019: 1155; Dias, R.K.S. et al. 2020: 78.
 * Distribution: Algeria, Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, France, Greece, Israel, Italy (+ Sicily), Montenegro, Morocco, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain (+ Canary Is), Syria, Turkey.
 * [Note: distribution records restricting this taxon to the West Palaearctic region follow Borowiec, L. 2014: 122. The taxonomy of the species complex containing this taxon is very confused, therefore old records from the tropics, based mainly on infraspecific descriptions, are discarded (Bollton, 1987: 288).]

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