Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Extant: 1 valid subspecies
Myrmica subopaca Smith, 1858a PDF: 127 (w.q.) PORTUGAL (Madeira I.). Palearctic. Primary type information: Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of
Heterick, 2006 PDF: 103). Type-locality: lectotype Portugal: Madeira I. (
T.V. Wollaston). Type-depository: BMNH. Type-specimen: lectotype CASENT0010948. Secondary type information: Paratype-material: 3 paralectotype workers, 3 paralectotype queens (all specimens (including lectotype) on one card). Paratype-locality: same as for lectotype. Paratype-depository: BMNH.
AntCat AntWiki HOL Taxonomic history
Subspecies of
Monomorium salomonis:
Forel, 1890b PDF: lxxv;
Saunders, 1890 PDF: 204;
Forel, 1904d PDF: 5;
Forel, 1907d PDF: 18;
Emery, 1908j PDF: 676;
Santschi, 1908 PDF: 517;
Forel, 1910a PDF: 23;
Karavaiev, 1912a PDF: 3;
Krausse, 1912c PDF: 166;
Santschi, 1913c PDF: 306;
Santschi, 1914d PDF: 353;
Emery, 1916a PDF: 161;
Arnold, 1916 PDF: 224;
Wheeler & Mann, 1916 PDF: 170;
Santschi, 1921e PDF: 170;
Wheeler, 1922: 871;
Emery, 1922c PDF: 178;
Wheeler, 1923d PDF: 4;
Santschi, 1923e PDF: 281;
Emery, 1924a PDF: 8;
Emery, 1924c PDF: 165;
Lomnicki, 1925b PDF: 1;
Wheeler, 1926a PDF: 3;
Menozzi, 1926b PDF: 182;
Kutter, 1927a PDF: 99;
Wheeler, 1927g PDF: 107;
Donisthorpe, 1942a PDF: 29;
Wellenius, 1955 PDF: 8;
Ceballos, 1956: 305;
Báez & Ortega, 1978: 190;
Kempf, 1972b PDF: 144.
Status as species:
Mayr, 1862 PDF: 753;
Roger, 1862c PDF: 294;
Roger, 1863b PDF: 31;
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 429;
Dours, 1873 PDF: 169;
André, 1874c: 199 (in key);
Emery & Forel, 1879 PDF: 456;
André, 1881c PDF: 65;
Emery, 1881b PDF: 531 (in key);
Emery, 1882b PDF: 450;
André, 1883a: 336 (in key);
Emery, 1886b PDF: 363;
Forel, 1886e PDF: clxviii;
Emery, 1892: 117;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 70;
Emery, 1893e PDF: 82;
Emery, 1895i PDF: 24;
Mayr, 1895 PDF: 133;
Bondroit, 1918 PDF: 143;
Santschi, 1927e PDF: 240;
Menozzi, 1929b PDF: 4;
Santschi, 1931a: 5;
Grandi, 1935 PDF: 100;
Santschi, 1936a PDF: 40;
Finzi, 1936 PDF: 177;
Finzi, 1939a PDF: 158;
Finzi, 1940 PDF: 161;
Arnold, 1944 PDF: 14 (in key);
Bernard, 1956b PDF: 259;
Baroni Urbani, 1964c PDF: 154;
Cagniant, 1964 PDF: 89;
Ettershank, 1966 PDF: 92;
Baroni Urbani, 1968e PDF: 450;
Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969 PDF: 66;
Cagniant, 1970a PDF: 418;
Bernard, 1971: 7;
Baroni Urbani, 1971c PDF: 92;
Baroni Urbani, 1976b PDF: 213;
Collingwood, 1978 PDF: 82 (in key);
Barquín, 1981: 196;
Schembri & Collingwood, 1981 PDF: 431;
Collingwood, 1985 PDF: 272;
Bolton, 1987 PDF: 360 (redescription);
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a PDF: 55;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 273 (in key);
Kugler, 1988 PDF: 258;
Brandão, 1991 PDF: 357;
Collingwood, 1993b PDF: 194;
Hohmann et al., 1993: 155;
Bolton, 1995b: 267;
Mei, 1995 PDF: 764;
Poldi et al., 1995: 4;
Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 PDF: 356;
Espadaler, 1997g PDF: 30;
Zhou, 2001a PDF: 114;
Heterick, 2006 PDF: 103 (redescription);
Cagniant, 2006 PDF: 196;
Petrov, 2006 PDF: 94 (in key);
Wetterer et al., 2007 PDF: 31;
Wetterer et al., 2007 PDF: 16;
Fernández, 2007b: 138;
Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008 PDF: 140;
Legakis, 2011 PDF: 15;
Collingwood et al., 2011 PDF: 438;
Borowiec & Salata, 2012 PDF: 519;
Guénard & Dunn, 2012 PDF: 46;
Kiran & Karaman, 2012 PDF: 21;
Hita Garcia et al., 2013 PDF: 213;
Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 126;
Sharaf et al., 2015 PDF: 54;
Bharti et al., 2016 PDF: 40;
Lebas et al., 2016: 304;
Salata & Borowiec, 2018c 10.5281/zenodo.2199191 PDF: 47;
Sharaf et al., 2018 10.20362/am.010004 PDF: 26;
Dias et al., 2020 10.3897/zookeys.967.54432 PDF: 78;
Sharaf et al., 2020 10.3161/00034541ANZ2020.70.4.005 PDF: 548;
Sharaf et al., 2022 10.5852/ejt.2022.838.1925 PDF: 66.
Senior synonym of
Monomorium mediterraneum:
Mayr, 1862 PDF: 753;
Roger, 1862c PDF: 294;
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 429;
Roger, 1863b PDF: 31;
Dours, 1873 PDF: 169;
André, 1874c: 204 (in list);
Emery & Forel, 1879 PDF: 456;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 70;
Emery, 1916a PDF: 161;
Emery, 1922c PDF: 178;
Wheeler, 1922: 871;
Santschi, 1927e PDF: 241;
Bolton, 1987 PDF: 360;
Bolton, 1995b: 267;
Zhou, 2001a PDF: 114;
Heterick, 2006 PDF: 103.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Africa: Algeria,
Canary Islands,
Cape Verde,
Macaronesia,
Madagascar,
Morocco,
Niger,
Reunion,
Senegal,
South Africa,
Tunisia,
Zimbabwe Asia: Georgia,
India,
Israel,
Lebanon,
Oman,
Qatar,
Saudi Arabia,
Sri Lanka,
Turkey,
United Arab Emirates Europe: Balearic Islands,
Gibraltar,
Greece,
Italy,
Malta,
Portugal,
Spain Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Afrotropical,
Indomalaya,
Malagasy,
Palearctic Native to (according to species list records)
: Afrotropical, Palearctic bioregions
Distribution Notes:
Canary Islands, Madeira,
Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)
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Monomorium subopacum |
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Mayr, G., 1862, Myrmecologische Studien., Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12, pp. 649-776: 753, (download) |
753 |
4445
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Monomorium (Xeromyrmex) salomonis subsp. subopacum var. liberta |
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Santschi, F., 1923, Descriptions de nouveaux formicides Ethiopiens et notes diverses. - I., Revue de Zoologie Africaine 11, pp. 259-295: 281, (download) |
281 |
3603
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Monomorium subopacum |
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Heterick, B. E., 2006, A revision of the Malagasy ants belonging to genus Monomorium Mayr, 1855 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 57, pp. 69-202: 103-107, (download) |
103-107 |
21061
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Monomorium subopacum |
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Fernández, F., 2007, Two new South American species of Monomorium Mayr with taxonomic notes on the genus., Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Homage to E. O. Wilson - 50 years of contributions. (Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80), pp. 128-145: 138, (download) |
138 |
21280
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Monomorium subopacum |
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Emery, C., 1893, Voyage de M. Ch. Alluaud aux iles Canaries. Formicides., Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 62, pp. 81-88: 82, (download) |
82 |
3764
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Monomorium subopacum |
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Espadaler, X., 2007, The ants of El Hierro (Canary Islands)., Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Homage to E. O. Wilson - 50 years of contributions., Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 80, pp. 113-127: 119, (download) |
119 |
21278
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Monomorium salomonis |
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Forel, A., 1890, Fourmis de Tunisie et de l'Algérie orientale., Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, Comptes-rendus des Seances 34, pp. 61-76: 75, (download) |
75 |
3926
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Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 56 times found in urban/garden, 6 times found in rocky wash with Tamarix and Juniper, 2 times found in Acacia Juniper woodland, 2 times found in Rocky brush along wash, 2 times found in roadside, 2 times found in Garden, 3 times found in Bushes, 1 times found in gravel wash with Acacia gerrardii, 1 times found in irrigated date and olive trees, 2 times found in Ohrigstad Mountain Bushveld, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 43 times ground forager(s), 17 times ground nest, 6 times under stone, 6 times on low vegetation, 5 times Foraging, 3 times under rock, 1 times ex nest in stones and sand, 1 times ex rotten log, 1 times Forrajeando, 1 times a la lumiere, 1 times on the path to the beach, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 6 times water traps, 21 times Hand, 3 times Pitfall trap, 2 times search, 1 times a la lumiere, 1 times Pitfall, 1 times pitfall traps.
Elevations: collected from 1 - 1930 meters, 499 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1898-09-20 00:00:00.0 and 2017-09-07 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: Holotype of Monomorium mintiribe: casent0922332; Lectotype of Monomorium mediterraneum: casent0916009; Lectotype of Paraphacota surcoufi: casent0010881; paralectotype of Paraphacota surcoufi: casent0010892; paratype of Monomorium mintiribe: casent0922333, casent0922334; syntype of Monomorium subopacum adoneum: casent0913858; syntype of Monomorium subopacum apuleii: casent0913859; syntype of Monomorium subopacum liberta: casent0913857
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Mexico
United States
India
Madagascar
Canada
Brazil
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Greece
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