Contents Contents The Ants of Egypt
SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Monomorium
Monomorium carbo (Forel)

australe-complex

Monomorium carbo Forel

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Eritrea (Monomorium salomonis L. var carbo n. var., Forel, 1910c: 251, worker) Ghinda
worker only described (see Bolton, 1995, type location given as Ethiopia) .

Forel's (1910c) description is at {original description}. Forel (1914d) gave a fuller description, this is at {original description}. Bolton's modern description (1987) is at {original description}.

WORKER - TL 2.3-2.4 mm (Bolton, 1987: 339, not illustrated).

{Monomorium carbo}The photomontage of the holotype type is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0249908

{Monomorium carbo}The photomontage of a cotype is collated from The Smithsonian Institute images at http://ripley.si.edu/ent/nmnhtypedb/public/specimeninfopage.cfm?publicconsumption=1&typespecimenID=856
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