Monomorium phoenicum

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Monomorium bicolor.

Nomenclature

 * phoenicum. Monomorium (Xeromyrmex) subopacum var. phoenicum Santschi, 1927d: 242.
 * Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated).
 * Type-localities: Lebanon: Tripoli (no collector’s name), Egypt: Suez (no collector’s name), Israel (“Palestine”) (no further data).
 * Type-depositories: MSNG, NHMB.
 * [First available use of Monomorium salomonis subsp. subopacum var. phoenicia Emery, 1908h: 677 (w.q.) LEBANON; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
 * [Misspelled as phaenicium by Santschi, 1934d: 277; misspelled as phoenicium by Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, 2014: 135.]
 * Wheeler, W.M. & Mann, 1916: 170 (m.).
 * As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, W.M. & Mann, 1916: 170; Donisthorpe, 1918b: 166; Emery, 1922e: 178; Emery, 1924a: 9; Kutter, 1928: 66; Ettershank, 1966: 91.
 * Subspecies of subopacum: Menozzi, 1933b: 62; Menozzi, 1934: 161; Santschi, 1934d: 277; Finzi, 1936: 177; Finzi, 1940: 161.
 * Subspecies of salomonis: Weber, 1952c: 14.
 * Status as species: Collingwood, 1985: 272; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 55; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 272 (in key); Collingwood, 1993b: 194; Bolton, 1995b: 266; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 353; Petrov, 2006: 94 (in key); Legakis, 2011: 15; Collingwood, et al. 2011: 435; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 519; Borowiec, L. 2014: 124; Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, 2014: 135; Lebas, et al. 2016: 304; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2020: 14.
 * Junior synonym of bicolor: Sharaf, Mohamed, Boudinot, et al. 2021: 26.