Monomorium floricola (Jerdon)
Type location India (as Atta floricola, Jerdon, 1851:
107, worker); subspecies furinum (Forel, 1911f: 221, worker)
from Sri Lanka and philippinense (Forel, 1910d: 123,
worker & queen) from the Philippines; junior synonyms angusticlava
(Donisthorpe, 1947d: 189, worker) from New Guinea, cinnabari
(Roger, 1863a: 199, worker) and poecilum (Roger, 1863a: 199,
worker & queen) from Cuba, floreanum (Stitz,
1932a: 368, illustrated, worker & queen) from Galapagos Is.,
impressum (F Smith, 1867a: 447, queen & male) from Rodriguez
Is., and specularis (Mayr, 1866a: 509, worker) from Samoa
(see Bolton, 1995)
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Jerdon's (1851) description is at
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Mayr's (1866a) description, with his synonymy with floricola
(1879: 671) is at  .
Wheeler (1905b: 87) gave an illustration of the ergatoid female (from
the Bahamas), this is at
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Bolton's modern description (1987) is at
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 WORKER - TL 1.65 mm, HL 0.39, HW 0.33, SL 0.23, PW 0.20
Colour orange-brown, head darker, gaster very dark near black,
unsculptured and shiny. Erect hairs relatively long and moderately
abundant.
Illustrations
can be seen on
the
Japanese Ant Color Image Database (edited version right).
A pan-global tramp species, including wide establishment in
hothouses in temperate zones (Bolton, 1987: 390, not illustrated).
In Nigeria, found in a rotten log (B. Bolton) and also
collected by me inside the laboratories at CRIN. Listed from Lagos (F.
Silvestri) by Wheeler (1922).
Found in Ghana, on cocoa at Kade by Majer (1975; identified
by Bolton (not in Bolton, 1987); also found, 13 workers, in cocoa leaf
litter at Kade, by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b). Bolton (1987) listed
findings at CRIG (B. Bolton; C.A. Collingwood), Legon and Kibi (D.
Leston).
Also from Togo, at Tové (B. Dufour); and Cameroun,
at Nko'emvon (D.A. Jackson).
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The
photomontage of the angusticlava type from Irian Jaya (Dutch
New Guinea) is adapted from the Antweb.org site at