Monomorium subapterum

Specimens of this species have been observed feeding at flowers of Melelauca sp. in the northwest of Australia. M. subapterum is the most commonly found species in the M. rothsteini complex in the arid centre of the country.

Identification Keys including this Taxon

 * Key to Australian Monomorium Species

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 *  subapterum. Monomorium subapterum Wheeler, W.M. 1917b: 112, fig. 2 (w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in M. (Notomyrmex): Emery, 1922e: 170; in Chelaner: Ettershank, 1966: 97; in Monomorium: Taylor, 1987b: 4. Junior synonym of rothsteini: Heterick, 2001: 408. Revived from synonymy: Sparks, Andersen & Austin, 2015: 520.