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SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Monomorium - Monomorium phoenicium Emery
salomonis-group
phoenicium-complex
{Monomorium phoenicum}

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 abeillei (see above).

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

{Monomorium phoenicium} Egypt record - Monomorium subopacum var phoenicum - note mis-spelling, Santschi, 1927d: 242, worker & queen, from Egypt, Cairo. The photomontage is of specimens from Ezbet Debbana, Mansurah, E 31°35' N 31°10'; 29.xii.1997, collected by Mostafa Sharaf. Other images can be seen in the folders at - {original description} and {original description}.

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