Monomorium fayfaense

Some of the type specimens were collected from a mangrove swamp.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates.

Nomenclature

 * . Monomorium fayfaense Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 346, fig. 17 (w.) SAUDI ARABIA, YEMEN.
 * Type-material: holotype worker, paratype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: holotype Saudi Arabia: Fayfa, 17°16’N, 43°05’E, 27.iii.1983 (C.A. Collingwood); paratypes: workers with same data, workers Saudi Arabia: Khama, mangrove swamp, 1.iv.1983 (C.A. Collingwood), workers Yemen: Rissabah, 18.xi.1991 (A. van Harten), workers Yemen: Wadi Surdud, 29.xii.1991 (A. van Harten).
 * Type-depository: unknown (possibly in WMLC).
 * Status as species: Collingwood, et al. 2011: 433; Borowiec, L. 2014: 119.
 * Distribution: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.

Worker
Holotype: TL 3.0; HL 0.73; HW 0.58; SL 0.58; range: CI 82-87; SI 89-102; EL/HW 0.234-0.245.

The head is broad with curved sides and emarginate occiput. The clypeus is emarginate. The mesopropodeal furrow is deep and the propodeal dorsum rounds steeply into its declivous face and has a wide longitudinal furrow with raised side margins. The petiole is relatively high and steep, transverse in dorsal view. There are several long hairs on the pronotum and a few short suberect hairs on the mesopropodeum and on the lower genae. The petiole has one pair and the postpetiole two pairs and there are scattered hairs on the first gastral tergite. The head, alitrunk and nodes are bright red and the gaster a strongly contrasted dark colour.

Type Material
Holotype: worker, Saudi Arabia, Fayfa, 17°16'N 43°05'E, 27.III.1983, CA. Collingwood. - Paratypes: Saudi Arabia: workers, same series as holotype; workers, Khama mangrove swamp, 1.IV.1983, CA. Collingwood. - Yemen: workers from: Rissabah, 18.XI.1991; Wadi Surdud, 29.XII.1991; all A. van Harten.

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., D.Agosti, M.R. Sharaf, and A. van Harten. 2011. Order Hymenoptera, family Formicidae. Arthropod fauna of the UAE, 4: 405474