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Genus: Monomorium   Mayr, 1855 

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Current Valid Name:



Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)

Extant: 297 valid species, 22 valid subspecies

Fossil: 3 valid species

Monomorium Mayr, 1855 PDF: 452. Type-species: Monomorium monomorium, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Monomorium in Myrmicidae, Myrmicidae: Emery, 1877b PDF: 81.
Monomorium in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1855 PDF: 452 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1861 PDF: 71 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1865 PDF: 22 [Myrmicidae]; Dours, 1873 PDF: 169 [Myrmicidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879 PDF: 456 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 65 [Myrmicinae]; Emery, 1896e PDF: 183, 185 [Myrmicinae].
Monomorium as subgenus of Myrmica: Smith, 1858a PDF: 123.
Monomorium as genus: all authors except for Smith, 1858a PDF: 123.
Monomorium as senior synonym of Antichthonidris: Heterick, 2001 PDF: 361; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 214.
Monomorium as senior synonym of Pharaophanes: Bolton, 2003 PDF: 213.
Monomorium as senior synonym of Santschia: syn. n. (not previously recorded).
[Monomarium: incorrect subsequent spelling by Smith, 1858a PDF: 123, and others.]
Genus Monomorium catalogues
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 429, 440 (Monomorium, Phacota); Roger, 1863b PDF: 30, 31 (Phacota, Monomorium); Emery & Forel, 1879 PDF: 456, 464 (Europe Monomorium, Phacota); Cresson, 1887 PDF: 262 (U.S.A. Monomorium); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 65, 65, 71, 72, 78 (Holcomyrmex, Monomorium, Phacota, Trichomyrmex, †Lampromyrmex); Emery, 1922c PDF: 166, 168, 168, 170, 174, 175, 179, 181, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 204 (Monomorium, Monomorium (Chelaner), Monomorium (Notomyrmex), Monomorium (Monomorium), Monomorium (Corynomyrmex), Monomorium (Xeromyrmex), Monomorium (Parholcomyrmex), Monomorium (Holcomyrmex), †Monomorium (Lampromyrmex), Epixenus, Trichomyrmex, Wheeleriella, Phacota, Epoecus); Wheeler, 1922: 862, 1026 (Afrotropical, Malagasy); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 162, 169 (Asia Monomorium, Trichomyrmex, Wheeleriella); Smith, 1951c PDF: 810, 815 (North America Monomorium, Epoecus); Ettershank, 1966 PDF: 82, 93 (Monomorium, Chelaner); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 143, 165 (Neotropical Monomorium, Nothidris); Smith, 1979: 1381 (North America); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 55, 70 (Australia Chelaner, Monomorium); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 19, 40 (Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand Chelaner, Monomorium); Taylor, 1987b: 2 (Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand Monomorium); Brandão, 1991 PDF: 326, 357, 361 (Neotropical Antichthonidris, Monomorium, Nothidris); Bolton, 1995b: 67, 258, 292, 316 (Antichthonidris, Monomorium, Nothidris, Phacota); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 325 (Afrotropical, Malagasy checklist).
Genus Monomorium references
Mayr, 1861 PDF: 71 (diagnosis, Europe species key); Mayr, 1865 PDF: 19, 22 (Trichomyrmex, Monomorium, Phacota diagnoses); Mayr, 1867a PDF: 95 (Monomorium diagnosis); Mayr, 1876 PDF: 100 (Australia Monomorium species key); Emery, 1881b PDF: 530 (Mediterranean & Red Sea Monomorium species key); André, 1883a: 331, 343 (Europe & Algeria Monomorium, Holcomyrmex species keys); André, 1883b: 397 (Phacota); Nasonov, 1889: 69 (Russia Monomorium species key); Forel, 1903a PDF: 685, 692 (India & Sri Lanka Monomorium, Holcomyrmex species keys); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 200, 282 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma Monomorium, Holcomyrmex species keys); Ruzsky, 1905b: 633 (Russian Empire Monomorium species key); Emery, 1908j PDF: 664 (Palaearctic Monomorium species key); Emery, 1915g PDF: 190 (Monomorium subgenera key); Arnold, 1916 PDF: 203, 204 (Monomorium diagnosis, South Africa species key); Emery, 1916a PDF: 161 (Italy Monomorium species key); Santschi, 1921c PDF: 121 (Syllophopsis species key); Emery, 1922c PDF: 166, 168, 168, 170, 174, 175, 179, 181, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 204 (Monomorium subgenera key, Monomorium (Chelaner), Monomorium (Notomyrmex), Monomorium (Monomorium), Monomorium (Corynomyrmex), Monomorium (Xeromyrmex), Monomorium (Parholcomyrmex), Monomorium (Holcomyrmex), †Monomorium (Lampromyrmex), Epixenus, Trichomyrmex, Wheeleriella, Phacota, Epoecus diagnoses); Wheeler, 1922: 161, 675 (Monomorium diagnosis, subgenera key); Menozzi, 1933b PDF: 64 (Israel Monomorium species key); Santschi, 1936a PDF: 33 (Mediterranean & Africa Monomorium (Xeromyrmex) key); Buren, 1944a PDF: 289 (U.S.A., Iowa Monomorium species key); Kusnezov, 1949a PDF: 431 (Argentina Monomorium species); Creighton, 1950a PDF: 217 (Monomorium Nearctic species key); Creighton, 1950a PDF: 239 (Epoecus, review of genus); Bernard, 1955b: 282 (Epixenus species key); Brown, 1958h PDF: 28 (New Zealand Monomorium species key); Gregg, 1963: 367 (U.S.A., Colorado Monomorium species key); Ettershank, 1966 PDF: 82, 93 (Monomorium, Chelaner, diagnoses, reviews of genera); Bernard, 1967a PDF: 165 (Monomorium diagnosis, Western Europe species key); Alayo, 1974 PDF: 14 (Cuba Monomorium species key); Snelling, 1975 PDF: 5 (Nothidris all species key); Snelling & Hunt, 1976 PDF: 79 (Nothidris all species key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 538 (former European U.S.S.R. Monomorium species key); Collingwood, 1978 PDF: 82 (Iberian Peninsula Monomorium species key); Tohmé & Tohmé, 1980a PDF: 1087 (Lebanon & Syria Epixenus species key); Collingwood, 1985 PDF: 267 (Saudi Arabia Monomorium species key); DuBois, 1986 PDF: 74 (Monomorium Nearctic species revision, key); Bolton, 1987 PDF: 281, 283, 284, 287, 307 (Phacota review of genus, Antichthonidris review of genus, Nothidris review of genus, Monomorium diagnosis, review of genus, Afrotropical species revision, key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 272 (Balkans Monomorium species key); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 14 (synoptic classification); Dlussky et al., 1990 PDF: 231 (Turkmenistan Monomorium species key); Ogata, 1991b PDF: 104 (diagnosis, Japan); Morisita et al., 1992: 38 (Japan Monomorium species key); Arakelian, 1994 PDF: 46 (Armenia Monomorium species key); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1048, 1050, 1051 (census); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 88 (China Monomorium species key); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 PDF: 337 (Saudi Arabia Monomorium species key); Dlussky, 1997a PDF: 55 (in Baltic amber genera key); Radchenko, 1997g PDF: 211 (Monomorium scabriceps group revision, key); Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 19 (Portugal Monomorium species key); Shattuck, 1999: 145 (Australia synopsis); Heterick, 2001 PDF: 367 (Australia Monomorium species revision, key); Zhou, 2001a PDF: 112 (China, Guangxi Monomorium species key); Mackay & Mackay, 2002 PDF: 127 (U.S.A., New Mexico Monomorium species key); Heterick, 2006 PDF: 84 (Malagasy Monomorium species revision, key); Andersen, 2007 PDF: 37 (Australia species groups); Fernández, 2007b: 139 (Neotropical Monomorium species key); Terayama, 2009 PDF: 154 (Taiwan species key); Heterick, 2009 PDF: 158 (south-western Australia species key); Aldawood & Sharaf, 2011 10.3897/zookeys.106.1390 PDF: 52 (Saudi Arabia Monomorium monomorium group key); Eguchi et al., 2011 PDF: 19 (diagnosis, Vietnam synopsis); Sarnat & Economo, 2012 PDF: 86 (Fiji Is species key); Sharaf & Aldawood, 2013a 10.4289/0013-8797.115.1.75 PDF: 80 (Afrotropical Monomorium minutum hildebrandti-group species key); ref 142331}: 73 (Arabian Monomorium monomorium group key); Sparks et al., 2014 PDF: 496 (Australian Monomorium rothsteini species complex key); Baccaro et al., 2015 10.5281/zenodo.32912 PDF: 294 (genus in Brazil); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 324 (diagnosis); Cantone, 2017 PDF: 212 (brief male diagnosis); Sharaf et al., 2018 10.7717/peerj.4277 PDF: 6 (Arabian Monomorium monomorium group key); Fernández & Serna, 2019 PDF: 808 (Colombia species key); Rasheed et al., 2020 PDF: 1 (Monomorium indicum and Monomorium sagei associations with aphids); Sharaf et al., 2021 10.7717/peerj.10726 PDF: 5 (diagnosis of Arabian Peninsula Monomorium and species groups), 8 (key to Arabian Peninsula Monomorium); Heterick, 2021 10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245 PDF: 182 (Western Australia species key).

Taxon Page Images:



Monomorium sydneyense queen and workers in the brood nest. Yandoit, Victoria, Australia.
Image © Alex Wild. // Distribution

Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Africa: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grande Glorieuse, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Juan de Nova Island, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macaronesia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
    Americas: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Galapagos Islands, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, United States Virgin Islands, Uruguay, Venezuela
    Asia: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Krakatau Islands, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Island, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
    Europe: Albania, Austria, Balearic Islands, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Jersey, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom
    Oceania: American Samoa, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Hawaii, Kiribati, Lord Howe Island, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Malagasy, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oceania, Palearctic
  Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records):
    Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Malagasy, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oceania, Palearctic

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Monomorium   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: 79-83, (download) 79-83 21061
Monomorium   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: 34, (download) 34 21008
Monomorium   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: 14, (download) 14 21008
Monomorium   Wheeler, W. M., 1922, The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45, pp. 39-269: 161-162, (download) 161-162 20597
Monomorium   Mohamed, S., Zalat, S. & Fadl, H., 2001, Taxonomy of ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) collected by pitfall traps from Sinai and Delta region, Egypt., Egyptian Journal of Natural History 3, pp. 40-61: 52, (download) 52 21622
Monomorium   Forel, A., 1891, Histoire naturelle des Hymenopteres. Deuxieme partie: Les Formicides., Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar., Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale, pp. 1-231: 163, (download) 163 6734
Monomorium   Forel, A., 1892, Hymenopteres 2 (supplement au 28 fascicule). Les Formicides., Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar. 20., Paris: Unknown Publisher, pp. 232-280: 255, (download) 255 8239
Monomorium   Eguchi, K., Viet, B. T. & Yamane, S., 2011, Generic synopsis of the Formicidae of Vietnam (Insecta: Hymenoptera), Part I - Myrmicinae and Pseudomyrmicinae., Zootaxa 2878, pp. 1-61: 19-20, (download) 19-20 23462
Monomorium   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: 130-131, (download) 130-131 21280
Monomorium   Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8, pp. 1-174: 62, (download) 62 6175


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