Monomorium dolatu Bolton

Type location Cameroun, (Bolton, 1987: 384, not illustrated) collected at Nko'emvon by D.A. Jackson, 1980, holotype and 3 paratype workers .

Bolton's description (1987) is at .

WORKER - TL 1.4-1.5 mm; characterised by 11-segmented antennae and wedge-shaped petiole; also clypeal carinae sharply defined, anterior median portion of clypeus with sharply angle lateral margins meeting shallowly concave anterior margin; colour yellow, posterior of head somewhat darker and first gastral tergite with an apical broad brown band (Bolton, 1987).

Other findings from Ghana, at Mampong (P.M. Room), single specimen; and Ivory Coast, at Gagno (L. Brader), single specimen (Bolton, 1987).

Note - all the specimens from the McKey project (see below) have 12-segmented antennae. In all other aspects of the morphology, size and colour, apart from some having gastral tergites with large dark lateral spots, they match Bolton's desciption. As Bolton did not provide a drawing, without examining the holotype I cannot be sure of the correct situation.

The photomontages are of specimens collected in Cameroun - south-western tropical coastal forest area between Edéa and Campo (McKey Wolbachia project) - Cameroon 5 from location EBO, 24 March 2001; Cameroon 19 from location MAM, 25 March 2001; Cameroon 36 from location PIR, 05 April, 2001; Cameroon 55 from location Ebodjé, 10 April 2001; and Cameroon 112 from location BOU, 25 March 2001; all samples from caulinary domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana, except 55, which were found in a bunch of Leonardoxa twigs, taken to the laboratory for raising Keratoplatidan flies.
Cameroon 19 specimen - other images can be seen in the folder at - .

Cameroon 36 -