Monomorium tumaire

Nothing is known about the biology of .

Identification
Collingwood and Agosti (1996) - This species is very similar to Monomorium wahibiense but is differentiated by the projecting occipital hairs and the long ventral head hairs.

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

Nomenclature

 *  tumaire. Monomorium tumaire Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 356, fig. 29 (w.) SAUDI ARABIA.

Worker
Holotype: TL 2.56; HL 0.61; HW 0.56; SL 0.56; EL/HW 0.287; range: CI 79-85; SI 100-106.

Clypeus weakly emarginate; head with sides mildly curved and rounded occipital corners. Dorsal outline of alitrunk with a shallow mesopropodeal break, the mesonotum rising from the propodeum at a very gentle slope becoming flat to its junction with the pronotum. The petiole is a thick rounded triangle. The propodeal furrow is distinct and mildly margined. There are two pairs of occipital hairs, abraded in some specimens, 12-16 hairs on the ventral surface of the head, some longer than the maximum eye length. The pronotum has one pair of hairs, the petiole one pair and the postpetiole two hairs, the gaster has 12-16 suberect hairs on the first tergite. The head and alitrunk have shallow reticulopunctate sculpture becoming thinner on the nodes and gaster which are shining.

Type Material
Holotype: worker, Saudi Arabia, Wadi Tumair, 25°43'N 45°51'E, 20.II.1976, W Buttiker. - Paratypes: Saudi Arabia: workers, same series as holotype. - United Arab Emirates: workers, Ras Ghanada, IX.1992, B. Tigar. - Oman: workers, Eastern Sands, Mintirib, II.1986, W Buttiker.