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".

Menozzi's (1929e) description is at .

M. chobauti - type location Algeria (Emery, 1896j: 418, illustrated, worker; see Emery 1908h: 672) - small eyes, extensive psammophore (reddish-yellow according to Collingwood & Agosti, 1986) see .

M. lameerei - type location Algeria (Forel, 1902a: 150, worker; Santschi, 1907: 327, queen & male); ssp stauderi (Wolf, 1914: 42, illustrated, worker) from Algeria - densely striated on head and alitrunk.

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 specimens in the photomontages are from Abumadi, Zaranik, N. Sinai, E 34°26' N 30°39'; 6.iii.2003 & 6.v.2003, collector Mostafa Sharaf. Other images can be seen in the folders at - and

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.