Monomorium minutum

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Monomorium minutum
Scientific classification (junior homonym, replaced by Monomorium monomorium)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Solenopsidini
Genus: Monomorium
Species: Monomorium minutum
Mayr, 1855

This taxon is a junior homonym and has been replaced by Monomorium monomorium.

Nomenclature

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

  • minutum. Monomorium minutum Mayr, 1855: 453 (w.) ITALY.
    • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
    • Type-localities: Italy: Lombardy (Villa), Italy: Veneto, Lido I., nr Venice (Strobel), Italy: ‘Papal State’, nr Imola (Pirazzoli).
    • Type-depository: NHMW.
    • [Misspelled as monutum by Santschi, 1926b: 238; misspelled as minitum by Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, 2014: 135.]
    • [Junior secondary homonym of Atta minuta Jerdon, 1851: 105.]
    • Combination in Myrmica: Nylander, 1856b: 101 (footnote).
    • Mayr, 1865: 91 (q.m.); Santschi, 1936a: 42 (m.).
    • Status as species: Nylander, 1856b: 101 (footnote); Smith, F. 1858b: 123; Mayr, 1861: 72 (in key); Mayr, 1862: 753; Roger, 1863b: 31; Mayr, 1863: 429; Mayr, 1865: 91; Mayr, 1866a: 509; Emery, 1869b: 20; Dours, 1873: 169; André, 1874: 199 (in key); Emery & Forel, 1879: 456; André, 1881b: 68; André, 1883a: 333 (in key); Mayr, 1886d: 455; Cresson, 1887: 262; Forel, 1889: 257; Forel, 1891b: 164 (redescription); Dalla Torre, 1893: 67; Emery, 1895h: 26; Bingham, 1903: 210; Wheeler, W.M. 1908e: 423; Emery, 1908h: 680; Wheeler, W.M. 1909g: 183; Forel, 1910c: 252; Forel, 1911d: 338; Forel, 1912a: 55; Forel, 1913f: 191; Santschi, 1914b: 72; Emery, 1914d: 157; Forel, 1915d: 39 (in key); Donisthorpe, 1915d: 337; Emery, 1916b: 160; Arnold, 1916: 217; Bondroit, 1918: 142; Emery, 1922e: 172; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 864, 1027; Müller, 1923b: 77; Wheeler, W.M. 1923b: 3; Wheeler, W.M. 1923c: 4; Wheeler, W.M. 1924b: 246; Soudek, 1925b: 16; Stärcke, 1926: 86 (in key); Donisthorpe, 1927b: 387; Kutter, 1927: 99; Wheeler, W.M. 1928d: 113; Wheeler, W.M. 1929g: 44; Finzi, 1930d: 313; Wheeler, W.M. 1930a: 99; Menozzi, 1933b: 65 (in key); Wheeler, W.M. 1934h: 13; Grandi, 1935: 100; Zimmermann, 1935: 27; Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 23; Santschi, 1936a: 42; Teranishi, 1940: 13, 57; Weber, 1943c: 359; Kusnezov, 1949a: 425; Azuma, 1951: 87; Consani & Zangheri, 1952: 41; Ceballos, 1956: 305; Baltazar, 1966: 259; Cagniant, 1966b: 279; Ettershank, 1966: 90; Bernard, 1967: 167 (redescription); Wilson & Taylor, 1967: 67; Cagniant, 1968a: 143; Cagniant, 1970a: 418; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 89; Kempf, 1972a: 144; Aktaç, 1977: 122; Collingwood, 1978: 82 (in key); Onoyama, 1980: 198; Dlussky, 1994: 54; Tiwari, 1999: 58 (error); Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 304 (error); Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, 2014: 135 (error).
    • Replacement name: Monomorium monomorium Bolton, 1987: 287.

References

  • Bolton, B. 1987. A review of the Solenopsis genus-group and revision of Afrotropical Monomorium Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 54: 263-452 (page 287, Replacement name: monomorium)
  • Jerdon, T. C. 1851. A catalogue of the species of ants found in Southern India. Madras J. Lit. Sci. 17: 103-127 (page 105, [Junior secondary homonym of Atta minuta Jerdon, 1851: 105, above.])
  • Mayr, G. 1855. Formicina austriaca. Beschreibung der bisher im österreichischen Kaiserstaate aufgefundenen Ameisen, nebst Hinzufügung jener in Deutschland, in der Schweiz und in Italien vorkommenden Arten. Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ver. Wien 5: 273-478 (page 453, worker described)
  • Mayr, G. 1865. Formicidae. In: Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte "Novara" um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. Zoologischer Theil. Bd. II. Abt. 1. Wien: K. Gerold's Sohn, 119 pp. (page 91, queen, male described)