Monomorium bodenheimeri Menozzi

Type location Egypt (Menozzi, 1929e: 125, illustrated, worker); record in Menozzi (1929e), cited by Finzi (1936), from Wadi Tarfa, Sinai (type location given in Bolton, 1995, as Israel is wrong). Finzi (1936) noted "related to Mon. chobauti and Mon. lameerei". No images on Antweb (February 2015)

Menozzi's (1929e) description is at . Pitch black with mandibles and appendages reddish brown or lighter

Monomorium chobauti - type location Algeria (Emery, 1896j: 418, illustrated, worker; see Emery 1908h: 672) - small eyes, extensive psammophore; reddish-yellow

Oxford University Museum specimens

Monomorium bodenheimeri B Taylor det.	Egypt M Sharaf	4.v.2003 Zaranik 30°39' N 34°26' E	North Sinai, Abumadi	2
Monomorium bodenheimeri B Taylor det.	Egypt M Sharaf	6.iii.2003 Zaranik 30°39' N 34°26' E	North Sinai, Abumadi	1
Monomorium bodenheimeri B Taylor det.	Egypt M Sharaf	21.ii.2003 Elqasmia Delbis 30°19' N 31°19' E		1

Egypt records - Type record Menozzi (1929e: 125) holotype worker only, collected in Sinai, at Wadi Tarfa, by F S Bodenheimer, after whom it was named.

The photomontage is of a worker from Abumadi, Zaranik, N. Sinai, E 34°26' N 30°39'; 6.iii.2003, collector Mostafa Sharaf.

Apart from the somewhat narrower head than the Menozzi drawing, all the characters appear to match Menozzi's description of bodenheimeri. Note the colour varies from almost wholly dark brown/black to having a largely red-brown alitrunk; note also the longitudinal striations on the genae; frontal area narrow with a raised area between the raised frontal carinae.

The species seems quite close to barbatulum but that is described (and illustrated by Tarbinsky) as having the petiole lower than the postpetiole.

The photomontage is of a worker from Abumadi, Zaranik, N. Sinai, E 34°26' N 30°39'; 4.v.2003, collector Mostafa Sharaf.