Monomorium suleyile

Nothing is known about the biology of .

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Saudi Arabia.

Nomenclature

 * . Monomorium suleyile Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 456, fig. 28 (w.q.m.) SAUDI ARABIA, OMAN.
 * Type-material: holotype worker, paratype workers, paratype queens (numbers not stated), 1 paratype male.
 * Type-locality: holotype Saudi Arabia: Suleyil desert, 25°40’N, 45°50’E, 11.iv.1983 (C.A. Collingwood); paratypes: workers, queens, male with same data, workers Saudi Arabia: Hofuf, 13.iv.1983 (C.A. Collingwood), workers Saudi Arabia: Al-Qatif, 14.iv.1983 (C.A. Collingwood), Saudi Arabia: Riyadh, 17.iv.1983 (C.A. Collingwood), workers Oman: Barr al-Hickman, 12.ii.1987 (M.D. Gallagher), workers Oman: Jabal Maram, 27.ii.1990 (M.D. Gallagher).
 * Type-depository: unknown (possibly in WMLC, possibly in OMHN if Gallagher material has been retained there).
 * Status as species: Borowiec, L. 2014: 127.
 * Distribution: Oman, Saudi Arabia.

Worker
Holotype: TL 3.2; HL 0.84; HW 0.70; SL 0.73; EL/HW 0.25; range: CI 83-87; SI 99-110.

This species is similar to Monomorium junodi and would key to that species in Bolton (1987). However, worker specimens differ in the longer antennal scapes and slightly larger eyes (M. junodi SI 85-100; EL/HW 0.22-0.25). The mesopropodeal furrow is deeply impressed. The head and alitrunk have dose punctate sculpture which is arranged linearly on the propodeum, giving a transverse striate effect. The gaster is also densely punctate and dull. The petiole is a rather high but thick triangular cone in profile with the posterior face nearly flat and the anterior face more broadly curved. The worker pilosity is somewhat variable; some examples have more than one pair of pronotal hairs and occasional shorter hairs may be present on the mesonotum and the propodeum. The alitrunk is more massive than in the other species of this group with the declivous face of the propodeum correspondingly steeper. Body colour is brown with the gaster dorsum slightly darker.

Queen
(HL 1.10; HW 1.52) The head, most of the alitrunk and gaster densely sculptured and dull. Much of the dorsal mesonotum is longitudinally striate and less densely sculptured. The head is very broad with large eyes and ocelli.

Male
Black, comparatively robust and has close punctate sculpture.

Type Material
Holotype: worker, Saudi Arabia, Suleyil desert, 11.IV.1983, 25°40'N 45°50'E, C.A. Collingwood. - Paratypes: Saudi Arabia: 1 male, queens, workers from: same series as holotype; Hofuf, 13.IV.1983; Al-Qatif, 14.IV.1983; Riyadh, 17.IV.1983; all C.A. Collingwood. - Oman: workers from: Barr al-Hickman, 12.II.1987; Jabal Maram, 27.II.1990; all M.D. Gallagher.

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., 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