Monomorium longi

Identification
Bolton (1987) - A member of the M. pharaonis complex in the M. salomonis species group.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India, Pakistan.

Biology
This species is found in grasslands, field crops of maize and wheat, apple orchards. (Mohyuddin et al., 2020)

Nomenclature

 * . Monomorium longi Forel, 1902c: 211 (w.) INDIA (Meghalaya).
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: India: Assam, Garo Hills (Long).
 * Type-depository: MHNG.
 * Combination in M. (Xeromyrmex): Emery, 1922e: 177.
 * Status as species: Forel, 1903a: 688; Bingham, 1903: 203; Emery, 1922e: 177; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 166; Ettershank, 1966: 90; Bolton, 1995b: 264; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 303; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 39; Rasheed, et al. 2019: 432.
 * Distribution: India, Pakistan.

Description
Worker

Bingham (1903): Dull chestnut-brown, the mandibles, antennae and legs a shade paler; head, thorax and nodes of pedicel finely and densely rugulose, opaque; abdomen smooth and shining; pdosity almost entirely wanting; antennae and tibiae of the legs with an oblique short pubescence. Head from the front rectangular with the angles rounded, longer than broad; mandibles opaque, finely sculptured; clypeus raised in the middle, the carina) nearly obsolete ; antennae long, the scape reaching beyond the top of the head: eyes very small, placed a little in front of the middle on the side of the head. Thorax long, the pro-mesonotum very convex, mesometanotal suture well marked, the thorax emarginate at the suture; metathorax laterally compressed; the metanotum rectangular, sub-margined at base, sloping to the meso-metanotal suture. Pedicel: the 1st node squamiform, anteriorly with a long petiole, a little attenuate and rounded at the apex; 2nd node globose, broader than long, seen from above broader than the 1st node; abdomen elongate, oval.

Length: 2.5 to nearly 3 mm

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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 * Pajni H. R., and R. K. Suri. 1978. First report on the Formicid fauna (Hymenoptera) of Chandigarh. Res. Bull. (Science) Punjab University 29: 5-12.
 * Rasheed M. T., I. Bodlah, A. G. Fareen, A. A. Wachkoo, X. Huang, and S. A. Akbar. 2019. A checklist of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Pakistan. Sociobiology 66(3): 426-439.
 * Tak N. 2000. Studies on ants (Formicidae) of Rajasthan - III. Banswara. Entomon 25:97-101.
 * Tak N. 2008. Ants of Rajasthan. Conserving Biodiversity of Rajasthan Zool. Surv. India. 149-155.
 * Tak N. 2009. Ants Formicidae of Rajasthan. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper No. 288, iv, 46 p
 * Umair M., A. Zia, M. Naeem, and M. T. Chaudhry. 2012. Species composition of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Potohar Plateau of Punjab Province, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 44(3): 669-705.