Monomorium (Xeromyrmex) afrum Ern. Andre

Wheeler, W. M., 1922, The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45, pp. 39-269 : 163

publication ID

20597

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6288790

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Monomorium (Xeromyrmex) afrum Ern. Andre
status

 

Monomorium (Xeromyrmex) afrum Ern. Andre View in CoL   HNS 1 variety fultor Forel

Many workers from Niapu and Garamba (Lang and Chapin). Those from Niapu "came in thousands to the body of a dead bird. They had their nest in a cleared place about thirty yards away. The following day they had moved their nest to the base of a decomposed root but towards evening had returned to their original nest. This extended about two feet below the surface of the soil." At Garamba the species was found "making crater nests about three inches high about the stalks of grasses in a dry plain (savannah) with few trees." Thirteen specimens from this locality were taken from the stomach of a toad (Bufo regularis).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Monomorium

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