Monomorium tumaire

Nothing is known about the biology of .

Identification
Collingwood and Agosti (1996) - This species is very similar to Monomorium wahibiense but is differentiated by the projecting occipital hairs and the long ventral head hairs.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates. Palaearctic Region: Oman, Qatar.

Nomenclature

 * . Monomorium tumaire Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 356, fig. 29 (w.) SAUDI ARABIA, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, OMAN.
 * Type-material: holotype worker, paratype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: holotype Saudi Arabia: Wadi Tumair, 25°43’N, 45°51’E, 20.ii.1976 (W. Büttiker); paratypes: workers with same data, workers United Arab Emirates: Ras Ghanada, ix.1992 (B. Tigar), workers Oman: Eastern Sanda, Minitirib, ii.1985 (W. Büttiker).
 * Type-depository: unknown (possibly in WMLC, possibly in NHMB if Büttiker material was returned).
 * Status as species: Lush, 2009: 116; Collingwood, et al. 2011: 438; Borowiec, L. 2014: 127; Sharaf, Abdel-Dayem, et al. 2020: 548.
 * Distribution: Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates.

Worker
Holotype: TL 2.56; HL 0.61; HW 0.56; SL 0.56; EL/HW 0.287; range: CI 79-85; SI 100-106.

Clypeus weakly emarginate; head with sides mildly curved and rounded occipital corners. Dorsal outline of alitrunk with a shallow mesopropodeal break, the mesonotum rising from the propodeum at a very gentle slope becoming flat to its junction with the pronotum. The petiole is a thick rounded triangle. The propodeal furrow is distinct and mildly margined. There are two pairs of occipital hairs, abraded in some specimens, 12-16 hairs on the ventral surface of the head, some longer than the maximum eye length. The pronotum has one pair of hairs, the petiole one pair and the postpetiole two hairs, the gaster has 12-16 suberect hairs on the first tergite. The head and alitrunk have shallow reticulopunctate sculpture becoming thinner on the nodes and gaster which are shining.

Type Material
Holotype: worker, Saudi Arabia, Wadi Tumair, 25°43'N 45°51'E, 20.II.1976, W Buttiker. - Paratypes: Saudi Arabia: workers, same series as holotype. - United Arab Emirates: workers, Ras Ghanada, IX.1992, B. Tigar. - Oman: workers, Eastern Sands, Mintirib, II.1986, W Buttiker.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
 * Collingwood C.A., D.Agosti, M.R. Sharaf, and A. van Harten. 2011. Order Hymenoptera, family Formicidae. Arthropod fauna of the UAE, 4: 405474
 * Collingwood, C. A., and Donat Agosti. "Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (Part 2)." Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15 (1996): 300-385.
 * Sharaf M. R., B. L. Fisher, H. M. Al Dhafer, A. Polaszek, and A. S. Aldawood. 2018. Additions to the ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Oman: an updated list, new records and a description of two new species. Asian Myrmecology 10: e010004
 * Tigar B. J., and C. A. Collingwood. 1993. A preliminary list of ant records from Abu Dhabi Emirate, U.A.E. Tribulus 3(2): 13-14.