ASIAN
MYRMECOLOGY

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DOI: 10.20362/am.011001
Asian Myrmecology 11: e011001 (1-7)
article first published online: 11/May/2019

Redescription of Monomorium pallidum Donisthorpe, 1918, revised status

LECH BOROWIEC^1*, MOHAMMAD SAEED MOSSADEGH², SEBASTIAN SALATA³, SHIMA MOHAMMADI⁴, EBRAHIM TAMOLI TORFI², MEHDI TOOSI² & ALI ALMASI²

Abstract:

Monomorium pallidum Donisthorpe, 1918 is redescribed based on material from Iran (new country record). It is removed from the genus Trichomyrmex Mayr, 1865, its species status is retrieved and placed in the M. monomorium group of the genus Monomorium Mayr, 1855.

Keywords:

Iran, key, Monomorium monomorium-group, Palearctic Region, Middle East

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¹Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego 65, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland

²Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shahid Chamran University, Ahwaz, Iran

³Institute for Agricultural and Forest Environment, Polish Academy of Sciences, Bukowska 19, 60-809 Poznań, Poland

⁴No.34, 62nd Alley Pasdaran Blvd., Shiraz, Iran

*Corresponding author: lech.borowiec@uwr.edu.pl