Monomorium sahlbergi Emery, 1898

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, AbdulAziz M. A., Georgiadis, Christos, Nasser, Mohamed G. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2024, Filling gaps in global myrmecology: ants of the Kingdom of Bahrain (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Journal of Natural History 58 (41 - 44), pp. 1705-1786 : 1749-1752

Monomorium sahlbergi Emery, 1898

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Monomorium sahlbergi Emery, 1898 , (w.q.) Israel. Palaearctic. Diagnosis

Worker. This species most closely resembles M. pharaonis from which it can be readily distinguished by the following combination of characters: pronotum and metanotum equally high in profile; metanotal groove shallowly impressed; promesonotum without setae; 1/4 of the first gastral tergite paler than rest of gaster. For detailed differential diagnosis see Boer et al. (2020).

Figures

Figure 29. Monomorium sahlbergi. Worker. (A) Body in profile. (B) Head in full-face view, ANTWEB1041895, AntWeb.org (Michele Esposito). (C) Distribution map.