Myrmicinae: key to genera couplet 14
Key: modified from Wheeler & Wheeler (1963), Hölldobler & Wilson (1990), Bolton (1994)
Taxa remaining

Aphaenogaster
Leptothorax
Messor*#
Monomorium
Pheidole
Stenamma

Figure 93. Myrmicinae: Monomorium minimum

Figure 94. Myrmicinae: Aphaenogaster tennesseensis

14.Propodeum unarmed (Fig. 93); masticatory margin of mandibles with 3 or 4 teeth or denticles. (collected in all Midwestern states)

...Monomorium

  Propodeum armed with teeth or spines (Fig. 94); masticatory margin of mandibles usually with 5 or more teeth.

...15

Subfamily: Genus: M. minimum (Buckley) MN, Ceadr creek
Myrmicinae Monomorium M. pharaonis (Linnaeus) MN, TC
    M. talbotae DuBois  

Notes: tropical, only found in heated buildings, exotic, not in TC, chem interference, prairie ant, native

Genus Monomorium Mayr §pÆaVDƒ›
chinense Santschi, 1925: Chou & Terayama, 1991: 78; - Bolton, 1995: 260; - Tang et al., 1995: 69. §§µÿ>ÊÆaVD
destructor (Jerdon, 1851): Chou & Terayama, 1991: 78; - Bolton, 1995: 261. Ø}Va>ÊÆaVD
floricola (Jerdon, 1851): Chou & Terayama, 1991: 78; - Bolton, 1995: 262; - Tang et al., 1995: 69. ™·©~>ÊÆaVD
intrudens Fr. Smith, 1874: Chou & Terayama, 1991: 78; - Bolton, 1995: 263. §J´I>ÊÆaVD
latinode Mayr, 1872: Chou & Terayama, 1991: 78; - Bolton, 1995: 263. ºsP`>ÊÆaVD
pharaonis (Linnaeus, 1758): Chou & Terayama, 1991: 78; - Bolton, 1995: 265. §pd¿ÆaVD
fossulatum Emery, 1895: Chou & Terayama, 1991: 78; -Bolton, 1995: 262. d}æ¡>ÊÆaVD
sechellense Emery, 1894: Chou & Terayama, 1991: 78; - Bolton, 1995: 266. d}æ¡>ÊÆaVD

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