Monomorium denticulatum

Monomorium denticulatum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Genus: Monomorium
Species:
M. denticulatum
Binomial name
Monomorium denticulatum
Mayr, 1887
Synonyms[1]

Notomyrmex denticulatum
Nothidris denticulatus
Antichthonidris denticulatus
Antichthonidris denticulata

Monomorium denticulatum is a species of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae. It known from Chile and Argentina.[1] Like M. bidentatum it was first described from Valdivia, Chile.[2]

Description

Workers are 3 mm long, yellowish red, with brown head, petiole and abdomen. Females are 4 mm long and brownish black, with only the most distal tarsal elements and the tip of the abdomen reddish yellow. [2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Fernández, F. (2007). "Two new South American species of Monomorium Mayr with taxonomic notes on the genus". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 80: 128–145.
  2. ^ a b Mayr 1887, pp. 614–616

References

  • Mayr, G. (1887). "Südamerikanische Formiciden" (PDF). Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 37: 511–632.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.