Monomorium fieldi

Monomorium cf. fieldi, alate (brachypterous) queen, length about 3 mm

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Formicoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Formicoidea

Familia: Formicidae
Subfamilia: Myrmicinae
Tribus: Solenopsidini
Genus: Monomorium
Species: Monomorium fieldi

Name

• Monomorium fieldi Forel, 1910
  • Original status: valid species
  • Primary types: syntypes (2)
    • Fixation: automatic
    • Description: 1 [adult] worker, 1 [adult] male
    • Repository: ANIC (worker)
  • Type locality: 'Tennants Creek, Australie centrale'
    • Latitude and longitude: -19.635, 134.182495 [Tennant Creek, Australia]

Synonyms

• Monomorium donisthorpei Crawley, 1915
  • Authority for synonymy: Heterick, 2001: 401 ('Syn. nov.')
• Monomorium nigrius Forel, 1915
  • Authority for synonymy: Heterick, 2001: 401 ('Syn. nov.')
• Monomorium fraterculus Santschi, 1919
  • Authority for synonymy: Heterick, 2001: 401 ('Syn. nov.')

References

Primary references

• Forel 1910: Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue suisse de zoologie, 18: 1–94. BHL PDF

Additional references

• Crawley, W.C. 1915: Ants from north and central Australia, collected by G. F. Hill. - Part I. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 8(15): 130–136.
• Bolton, B. 1987: A review of the Solenopsis genus-group and revision of Afrotropical Monomorium Mayr. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), entomology, 54: 263–452. full article (page by page PDFs)
• Don, W. 2007: Ants of New Zealand. Otago University Press, New Zealand. ISBN 9781877372476
• Gunawardana, D. 2005: Monomorium fieldi Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) is the current name to use for ants previously known as Monomorium antipodum Forel and Monomorium orientale Mayr in New Zealand. Weta, 30: 14–15. PDF
• Heterick, B.E. 2001. Revision of the Australian ants of the genus Monomorium (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15(3): 353–459. DOI: 10.1071/IT00003 Reference page. 
• Jones, T.H.; Clark, D.A.; Heterick, B.E.; Snelling, R.R. 2003: Farnesylamine from the ant Monomorium fieldi Forel. Journal of natural products, 66(3): 325–326. DOI: 10.1021/np020558f
• Ward, D.F. 2005: Changes to the classification of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Weta 30: 16-18. PDF Reference page. 

Links

• Species-ID