Monomorium marmule

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Monomorium marmule
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Monomorium areniphilum)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Solenopsidini
Genus: Monomorium
Species: Monomorium marmule
Collingwood & Agosti, 1996

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Specimen Labels

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Monomorium areniphilum.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • marmule. Monomorium marmule Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 349, fig. 21 (w.) OMAN.
    • Type-material: holotype worker, paratype workers (number not stated).
    • Type-locality: holotype Oman: Marmul, ix.1989 (M.D. Gallagher); paratypes: workers with same data, workers Oman: Yalooni, 3.x.1984 (M.D. Gallagher), workers Oman: Yalooni, 18.xi.1984 (R. Braund), workers Oman: Minitirib, 14.i.1986 (M.D. Gallagher).
    • Type-depository: NHMB (possibly also in WMLC, possibly in OMHN if Gallagher material has been retained there).
    • Status as species: Borowiec, L. 2014: 121.
    • Junior synonym of areniphilum: Sharaf, Mohamed, Boudinot, et al. 2021: 23.

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