Monomorium creticum

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Greece.

Nomenclature

 * . Monomorium abeillei var. creticum Emery, 1895b: 66 (w.) GREECE (Crete I.).
 * Type-material: holotype worker.
 * Type-locality: Greece: Crete, Catavotri (Cecconi).
 * Type-depository: MSNG.
 * Karavaiev, 1927b: 107 (q.).
 * Combination in M. (Xeromyrmex): Emery, 1922e: 178.
 * Subspecies of salomonis: Forel, 1910a: 23 (in text); Emery, 1922e: 178.
 * Status as species: Emery, 1908h: 679; Karavaiev, 1927b: 107; Ettershank, 1966: 88; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 55; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 273 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 260; Petrov, 2006: 94 (in key); Legakis, 2011: 14; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 517; Borowiec, L. 2014: 117; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 47.
 * Senior synonym of biroianum: Legakis, 2011: 14.
 * Senior synonym of creticus Emery, 1908: Legakis, 2011: 14.
 * Senior synonym of pseudoepixenus: Legakis, 2011: 14.
 * Distribution: Greece.
 * biroi. Epixenus biroi Forel, 1910a: 21 (q.) GREECE (Crete).
 * Type-material: syntype queens (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: Greece: Crete I. (L. Biró).
 * Type-depository: MHNG.
 * [Junior secondary homonym of Monomorium biroi Forel, 1907a: 19.]
 * Combination in Monomorium: Brown & Wilson, 1957b: 244.
 * Status as species: Emery, 1922e: 185; Bernard, 1955b: 282 (in key); Ettershank, 1966: 88; Kutter, 1968b: 203; Tohmé, H. & Tohmé, G. 1980a: 1105 (in key).
 * Replacement name: Monomorium biroianum Bolton, 1995b: 260.
 * biroianum. Monomorium biroianum Bolton, 1995b: 260.
 * Replacement name for Epixenus biroi Forel, 1910a: 21. [Junior secondary homonym of Monomorium biroi Forel, 1907a: 19.]
 * Junior synonym of creticum: Legakis, 2011: 14.
 * creticus. Epixenus creticus Emery, 1908f: 558, fig. 5 (m.) GREECE (Crete I.).
 * Type-material: holotype male.
 * Type-locality: Greece: Crete, Retimo (Cecconi).
 * Type-depository: MSNG.
 * [Junior secondary homonym of Monomorium abeillei creticum Emery, 1895b: 66 (Bolton, 1995b: 260).]
 * Combination in Monomorium: Brown & Wilson, 1957b: 245.
 * Status as species: Emery, 1922e: 185; Ettershank, 1966: 88; Kutter, 1968b: 203; Bolton, 1995b: 260.
 * Replacement name: Monomorium pseudoepixenus Özdikmen, 2010c: 991.
 * Junior synonym of creticum Emery, 1895b: Legakis, 2011: 14.
 * pseudoepixenus. Monomorium pseudoepixenus Özdikmen, 2010c: 991.
 * Replacement name for Epixenus creticus Emery, 1908f: 558. [Junior secondary homonym of Monomorium abeillei creticum Emery, 1895b: 66.]
 * Junior synonym of creticum Emery, 1895b: Legakis, 2011: 14.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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 * Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
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 * Salata S., L. Borowiec, and A.Trichas. 2018. Taxonomic Revision of the Cretan Fauna of the Genus Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with Notes on the Endemism of Ant Fauna of Crete. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 68(4): 769-808.
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 * Salata S., and L. Borowiec. 2018. Taxonomic and faunistic notes on Greek ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom Entomology 27: 1-51.