Contents Contents The Ants of Egypt
SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Monomorium
Monomorium phoenicium (Emery)
salomonis-group
phoenicium-complex

Monomorium phoenicium (Emery)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Lebanon (Monomorium salomonis ssp subopacum var phoenicia, Emery, 1908h: 677; raised to species Collingwood, 1985: 272, illustrated; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 55) - North Africa & Middle East.
According to Collingwood (1985) has the same longitudinal groove on the propodeum as Monomorium abeillei.

{Monomorium phoenicum}Emery's (1908h) description is at {original description}. Santschi's (1927d) note is at {short description of image}

Monomorium phoeniciumThe photomontage of a worker from Lebanon, Beirut, from the Santschi collection, is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0249831

Oxford University Museum specimens

Monomorium phoenicium
B Taylor det.		 Egypt
M Sharaf


 6.vii.2003
Sallant Mansurah
31°10' N
31°35' E
1
 {album}
Monomorium phoenicium
B Taylor det.		 Egypt
M Sharaf


 29.xii.1997
Ezbet Debbana
31°10' N
31°35' E

1
 {album}

{Monomorium phoenicium} Egypt record - Monomorium subopacum var phoenicum - note mis-spelling, Santschi, 1927d: 242, worker & queen, from Egypt, Cairo.


The photomontage is of a worker from Sallant Mansurah, collector Mostafa Sharaf.

{Monomorium phoenicium} The photomontage is of a worker from Egypt, Ezbet Debbana, Mansurah; collector Mostafa Sharaf.
©2005, 2006, 2008, 2015 - Brian Taylor CBiol FRSB FRES
11, Grazingfield, Wilford, Nottingham, NG11 7FN, U.K.

href="monomorium_phoenicium.htm"