Monomorium longi

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Monomorium longi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Solenopsidini
Genus: Monomorium
Species: M. longi
Binomial name
Monomorium longi
Forel, 1902

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Specimen Labels

Identification

Bolton (1987) - A member of the M. pharaonis complex in the M. salomonis species group.

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Oriental Region: India (type locality), Pakistan.

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.
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Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.
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Biology

This species is found in grasslands, field crops of maize and wheat, apple orchards. (Mohyuddin et al., 2020)

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • longi. Monomorium longi Forel, 1902c: 211 (w.) INDIA (Meghalaya).
    • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
    • Type-locality: India: Assam, Garo Hills (Long).
    • Type-depository: MHNG.
    • Combination in M. (Xeromyrmex): Emery, 1922e: 177.
    • Status as species: Forel, 1903a: 688; Bingham, 1903: 203; Emery, 1922e: 177; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 166; Ettershank, 1966: 90; Bolton, 1995b: 264; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 303; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 39; Rasheed, et al. 2019: 432.
    • Distribution: India, Pakistan.

Description

Worker

Bingham (1903): Dull chestnut-brown, the mandibles, antennae and legs a shade paler; head, thorax and nodes of pedicel finely and densely rugulose, opaque; abdomen smooth and shining; pdosity almost entirely wanting; antennae and tibiae of the legs with an oblique short pubescence. Head from the front rectangular with the angles rounded, longer than broad; mandibles opaque, finely sculptured; clypeus raised in the middle, the carina) nearly obsolete ; antennae long, the scape reaching beyond the top of the head: eyes very small, placed a little in front of the middle on the side of the head. Thorax long, the pro-mesonotum very convex, mesometanotal suture well marked, the thorax emarginate at the suture; metathorax laterally compressed; the metanotum rectangular, sub-margined at base, sloping to the meso-metanotal suture. Pedicel: the 1st node squamiform, anteriorly with a long petiole, a little attenuate and rounded at the apex; 2nd node globose, broader than long, seen from above broader than the 1st node; abdomen elongate, oval.

Length: 2.5 to nearly 3 mm

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Ettershank G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Aust. J. Zool. 14: 73-171.
  • Pajni H. R., and R. K. Suri. 1978. First report on the Formicid fauna (Hymenoptera) of Chandigarh. Res. Bull. (Science) Punjab University 29: 5-12.
  • Rasheed M. T., I. Bodlah, A. G. Fareen, A. A. Wachkoo, X. Huang, and S. A. Akbar. 2019. A checklist of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Pakistan. Sociobiology 66(3): 426-439.
  • Tak N. 2000. Studies on ants (Formicidae) of Rajasthan - III. Banswara. Entomon 25:97-101.
  • Tak N. 2008. Ants of Rajasthan. Conserving Biodiversity of Rajasthan Zool. Surv. India. 149-155.
  • Tak N. 2009. Ants Formicidae of Rajasthan. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper No. 288, iv, 46 p
  • Umair M., A. Zia, M. Naeem, and M. T. Chaudhry. 2012. Species composition of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Potohar Plateau of Punjab Province, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 44(3): 669-705.