Limit Varieties of Monoids Satisfying a Certain Identity

A limit variety is a variety that is minimal with respect to being non-finitely based. Since the turn of the millennium, much attention has been given to the classification of limit varieties of aperiodic monoids. Seven explicit examples have so far been found, and the task of locating other examples has recently been reduced to two subproblems, one of which is concerned with monoids that satisfy the identity [Formula: see text]. We provide a complete solution to this subproblem by showing that there are precisely two limit varieties that satisfy this identity. One of them turns out to be the first example having infinitely many subvarieties. It is also deduced that the variety generated by any monoid of order 5 or less contains at most countably many subvarieties.