Monomorium rosae Santschi

Type location Zaïre (Monomorium (Lampyromyrmex) Rosae, Santschi, 1920b: 13, illustrated, worker) collected by Bequaert, in 1913; junior synonym cotterelli from Ghana (Diplomorium cotterelli, at CRIG, G. F. Cotterell, xii.1940, in Donisthorpe, 1942f: 217, worker; see Bolton, 1995); worker only described .

Santschi's (1920b) description is at . Bolton's modern description (1987) is at .

Nigeria specimens (Monomorium species T⁴, Taylor, 1980a). WORKER. TL 1.62 mm, HL 0.45, HW 0.34, SL 0.31, PW 0.19; others TL 1.6-2.0 mm (Bolton, 1987: 408, not illustrated).
Colour very dark brown-black, shiny, with polished appearance; antennal funiculi and tarsi yellow. Faint rugae on the lateral mesonotum and propodeum otherwise unsculptured. Erect hairs moderately long but relatively sparse with few on the alitrunk. 11-segmented antennae and clypeal carinae faint.

Collected at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Idi Ayunre by B. Bolton and B. Taylor, I found it on a dead tree; at IITA, Ibadan, by B.R. Critchley; and, at Mokwa by C. Longhurst (Bolton, 1987).

From Ghana, at CRIG also (B. Bolton), Mole (J.C. Grieg), Mampong (P.M. Room), Maase and Legon (D. Leston) (Bolton, 1987). Since found, seven workers, in cocoa leaf litter, at Ofinso and Bunso by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).

Others include Senegal, at Noto (C. Agbogba); also Kenya.

The photomontage of the type specimen is collected from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0010826&shot=p1&project=

The photomontage is of a specimen from Gabon, Pongara National Park; 17.vii.2006, Pointe Wingombe; fauchage bord de lagune; collected by Yves Braet. Other images can be seen in the folder at -

The photomontage is of a specimen from Ghana, collected by S Sky Stephens, 2006. Other images can be seen in the folders at - and