Malagasy: Reunion > Myrmicinae > Monomorium > Monomorium pharaonis

Species: Monomorium pharaonis

Taxonomic Hierarchy:

Distribution:

Reunion: For�t de l?Etang-Sale, Le Port Known from all zoogeographical regions. In the Malagasy Subregion recorded from the Seychelles (Inner Seychelles, Farquhar), Madagascar, Mauritius, Agalega and Juan de Nova.

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2010)

pharaonis. Formica pharaonis Linnaeus, 1758: 580 (w.) EGYPT. Mayr, 1865: 90 (m.); Andr�, 1883a: 338 (q.); Forel, 1891b: 164 (w.q.m.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1955c: 121 (l.); Petralia & Vinson, 1980: 383 (l.); Imai, 1966: 119 (k.). Combination in Monomorium: Mayr, 1862: 752. Senior synonym of antiguensis, domestica: Roger, 1862c: 294; of contigua, fragilis: Mayr, 1886c: 359; of minuta: Emery, 1892b: 165; Bolton, 1987: 288; of vastator: Donisthorpe, 1932c: 449. See also: Smith, D.R. 1979: 1383; Bolton, 1987: 356; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 164; Heterick, 2006: 100.