Monomorium albopilosum Emery

Type location South Africa (Emery, 1895h: 24, worker; as bicolor Mayr, 1901b: 7, queen); junior synonyms clarithorax (Santschi, 1919b: 235, worker), fingo (Arnold, 1946: 61, illustrated, worker), paucipilosa (Santschi, 1919b: 235, worker) from South Africa; and thales (Forel, 1913a: 136, worker; Arnold, 1916: 208, queen & male) from Zimbabwe .

Emery's (1895h) description is at . Mayr's (1901b) description of the queen is at Emery's (1913a) description of thales is at . Arnold (1916: 207) provided translations and further material on thales - this is at , and . Santschi's (1919b) description of varieties paucipilosa and clarithorax is at . Arnold's (1946) description of fingo is at . Bolton's modern description (1987) is at .

WORKER - TL 3.4-4.4 mm; densely covered with erect hairs, unicolorous brown (Bolton, 1987, 335, illustrated).

The photomontage is of a specimen sent to me in February 2006 by Peter Hlavac. From the label data, it clearly is from the collection by Dr H Brauns and identified by Mayr (1901b) as bicolor, with the workers at least noted as possibly the subspecies Monomorium nitidiventre Emery. The latter is not known south of Sudan, however, is smaller and does not have an abundance of erect pale hairs. Other images can be seen in the folder at -