This species was described under the genus Phacota and transferred to Monomorium by Ettershank1. In its revision, Bolton2 speculates that M.  read more »

1. 1. Ettershank G .  1966.  A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton. Australian Journal of Zoology. 14(1):73-171.
2. 2. Bolton B .  1987.  A review of the solenopsis genus-group and revision of afrotropical Monomorium Mayr. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology. 54(3):263-452.

The description of this species is based on the finding on a single specimen in Málaga (SE Spain), and citing dr.  read more »

Raised to species: Cagniant, 2006:197 1

1. 1. Cagniant H .  2006.  Liste actualisee des fourmis du Maroc (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).. Myrmecologische Nachrichten. 8:193-200.

This species was decribed by Santschi (1936) from Lybia as Monomorium salomonis st. areniphilum var. fezzanense, and redescribed as new by Collingwood & Agosti (1996).  read more »

This species is listed as Temnothorax bugnioni pupseli (Santschi, 1909) at Bolton et al (2006), although Cagniant considers it a good species and is listed as such at several studies (1970, 1973).  read more »