Monomorium monomorium

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Niue. Malagasy Region: Seychelles. Neotropical Region: Bermuda, Brazil. Oriental Region: India, Sri Lanka. Palaearctic Region: Canary Islands, China, Croatia, Greece, Iberian Peninsula, Israel, Italy, Montenegro, Republic of Korea, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey.

Nomenclature

 * minutum. Monomorium minutum Mayr, 1855: 453 (w.) ITALY.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-localities: Italy: Lombardy (Villa), Italy: Veneto, Lido I., nr Venice (Strobel), Italy: ‘Papal State’, nr Imola (Pirazzoli).
 * Type-depository: NHMW.
 * [Misspelled as monutum by Santschi, 1926b: 238; misspelled as minitum by Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, 2014: 135.]
 * [Junior secondary homonym of Atta minuta Jerdon, 1851: 105.]
 * Combination in Myrmica: Nylander, 1856b: 101 (footnote).
 * Mayr, 1865: 91 (q.m.); Santschi, 1936a: 42 (m.).
 * Status as species: Nylander, 1856b: 101 (footnote); Smith, F. 1858b: 123; Mayr, 1861: 72 (in key); Mayr, 1862: 753; Roger, 1863b: 31; Mayr, 1863: 429; Mayr, 1865: 91; Mayr, 1866a: 509; Emery, 1869b: 20; Dours, 1873: 169; André, 1874: 199 (in key); Emery & Forel, 1879: 456; André, 1881b: 68; André, 1883a: 333 (in key); Mayr, 1886d: 455; Cresson, 1887: 262; Forel, 1889: 257; Forel, 1891b: 164 (redescription); Dalla Torre, 1893: 67; Emery, 1895h: 26; Bingham, 1903: 210; Wheeler, W.M. 1908e: 423; Emery, 1908h: 680; Wheeler, W.M. 1909g: 183; Forel, 1910c: 252; Forel, 1911d: 338; Forel, 1912a: 55; Forel, 1913f: 191; Santschi, 1914b: 72; Emery, 1914d: 157; Forel, 1915d: 39 (in key); Donisthorpe, 1915d: 337; Emery, 1916b: 160; Arnold, 1916: 217; Bondroit, 1918: 142; Emery, 1922e: 172; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 864, 1027; Müller, 1923b: 77; Wheeler, W.M. 1923b: 3; Wheeler, W.M. 1923c: 4; Wheeler, W.M. 1924b: 246; Soudek, 1925b: 16; Stärcke, 1926: 86 (in key); Donisthorpe, 1927b: 387; Kutter, 1927: 99; Wheeler, W.M. 1928d: 113; Wheeler, W.M. 1929g: 44; Finzi, 1930d: 313; Wheeler, W.M. 1930a: 99; Menozzi, 1933b: 65 (in key); Wheeler, W.M. 1934h: 13; Grandi, 1935: 100; Zimmermann, 1935: 27; Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 23; Santschi, 1936a: 42; Teranishi, 1940: 13, 57; Weber, 1943c: 359; Kusnezov, 1949a: 425; Azuma, 1951: 87; Consani & Zangheri, 1952: 41; Ceballos, 1956: 305; Baltazar, 1966: 259; Cagniant, 1966b: 279; Ettershank, 1966: 90; Bernard, 1967: 167 (redescription); Wilson & Taylor, 1967: 67; Cagniant, 1968a: 143; Cagniant, 1970a: 418; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 89; Kempf, 1972a: 144; Aktaç, 1977: 122; Collingwood, 1978: 82 (in key); Onoyama, 1980: 198; Dlussky, 1994: 54; Tiwari, 1999: 58 (error); Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 304 (error); Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, 2014: 135 (error).
 * Replacement name: Monomorium monomorium Bolton, 1987: 287.
 * . Monomorium monomorium Bolton, 1987: 287.
 * Replacement name for Monomorium minutum Mayr, 1855: 453. [Junior secondary homonym of Atta minuta Jerdon, 1851: 105.]
 * Status as species: Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 55; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 272 (in key); Brandão, 1991: 357; Bolton, 1995b: 264; Poldi, et al. 1995: 4; Wetterer & Wetterer, 2004: 215; Ghosh, et al. 2005: 28; Bračko, 2006: 137; Cagniant, 2006a: 196; Petrov, 2006: 94 (in key); Bračko, 2007: 17; Fernández, 2007b: 137; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 489; Vonshak, et al. 2009: 43; Karaman, M.G. 2011b: 42; Legakis, 2011: 14; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 47; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 518; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 46; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 21; Borowiec, L. 2014: 122; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 39; Lebas, et al. 2016: 302; Steiner, et al. 2017: 13; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2018: 6; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 47; Dekoninck, et al. 2019: 1155; Dias, R.K.S. et al. 2020: 78.
 * Distribution: Algeria, Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, France, Greece, Israel, Italy (+ Sicily), Montenegro, Morocco, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain (+ Canary Is), Syria, Turkey.
 * [Note: distribution records restricting this taxon to the West Palaearctic region follow Borowiec, L. 2014: 122. The taxonomy of the species complex containing this taxon is very confused, therefore old records from the tropics, based mainly on infraspecific descriptions, are discarded (Bollton, 1987: 288).]

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