Monomorium dirie

Some of the type specimens were collected from the Wahiba Sands.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Oman.

Nomenclature

 * . Monomorium dirie Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 346 (w.) OMAN.
 * Type-material: holotype worker, paratype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: holotype Oman: Wadi Diri, 16.v.1984 (M.D. Gallagher); paratypes: workers with same data, workers Oman: Wahiba Sands, 14.xii.1985 (M.D. Gallagher), workers Oman: Minitirib, 1.iii.1986 (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: 118.
 * Distribution: Oman.

Worker
Holotype: HL 0.95; HW 0.82; SL 0.85; EL 0.27 (15 ommatidia in the longest row).

This species falls within the general description of Monomorium areniphilum but the ventral head is entirely bare of hairs. The alitrunk profile is also flatter with a more shallow mesopropodeal furrow.

Type Material
Holotype: worker, Oman, Wadi Diri, 16.V.1984, M.D. Gallagher. - Paratypes: Oman: workers, same series as holotype; workers from: Wahiba Sands, 14.XII.1985; Mintirib, 1.III.1986; 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