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Species: Monomorium ebeninum

Name Status: Valid Name

Taxonomic Hierarchy:

Subfamily: Myrmicinae Genus: Monomorium

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

Monomorium minutum r. ebeninum Forel, 1891c PDF: 165 (in text) (w.) ANTILLES. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Forel, 1893j PDF: 388 (q.); Forel, 1897b PDF: 300 (m.); Wheeler, 1905c PDF: 88 (q.m.).

Subspecies of Monomorium carbonarium: Wheeler, 1905c PDF: 88; Forel, 1912h PDF: 3; Mann, 1922 PDF: 29; Wheeler, 1942 PDF: 198.

Raised to species: Forel, 1913m PDF: 218; DuBois, 1986 PDF: 103.

Distribution:

Mexico south to Costa Rica, many Caribbean islands. Uncertain whether native in Costa Rica.

Biology:

Natural History:

In Costa Rica this is a moderately common species in disturbed areas in the seasonally dry northwest portion of the country. I have collected it in Santa Rosa National Park, where I observed workers recruiting to a dead grasshopper on an asphalt road. I also have records from Curu on the Nicoya Peninsula and La Pita on the road from the PanAmerican highway to Monteverde. I have never found a nest of the species.

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Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Fernández, F., 2007:
This species is similar to M. compressum and, to a lesser extent, to M. cyaneum . A characteristic that appears to separate it from similar species is the petiolar profile, which in frontal view is flat to weakly concave.

Specimen Data Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 1 times found in scrubby 2nd growth, 2 times found in littoral scrub, 2 times found in mature wet forest, 2 times found in Port of entry, 2 times found in 2nd growth dry forest, 2 times found in 2º wet forest, 2 times found in abandoned garden, 1 times found in agricultural area near forest, 1 times found in tropical dry scrub, 1 times found in wet forest, ...

Collected most commonly using these methods or in the following microhabitats: 7 times search, 4 times Winkler, 3 times bait, 4 times MiniWinkler, 1 times baiting, 1 times Beating, 1 times MaxiWinkler

Elevations: collected from 15 - 1560 meters, 233 meters average