Monomorium denticulatum

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]

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

Notomyrmex denticulatum
Nothidris denticulatus
Antichthonidris denticulatus
Antichthonidris denticulata

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. 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. Mayr 1887, pp. 614–616

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


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