<documentid="F0E3D32D0D76E00EB5178852A6DBD771"ID-CLB-Dataset="22478"ID-DOI="10.5852/ejt.2017.258"ID-GBIF-Dataset="35792d9c-db1a-45f1-b983-f52105f8d004"ID-ISSN="2118-9773"ID-Zenodo-Dep="3776244"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe"checkinTime="1588180985326"checkinUser="carolina"docAuthor="Garcia, Francisco Hita, Mbanyana, Nokuthula, Audisio, Tracy Lynn & Alpert, Gary D."docDate="2017"docId="543E8C277C71FA6BFD85FB2DFAD3187D"docLanguage="en"docName="ejt-2017-258.pdf.imf"docOrigin="European Journal of Taxonomy 258"docStyle="DocumentStyle:EF2B578F1D15862ADE45B0C07C620911.14:EJT.2018-.journal_article.type1"docStyleId="EF2B578F1D15862ADE45B0C07C620911"docStyleName="EJT.2018-.journal_article.type1"docStyleVersion="14"docTitle="Nesomyrmex innocens"docType="treatment"docVersion="12"lastPageNumber="27"masterDocId="A807F45F7C69FA71FFBAFFA7FFE21A12"masterDocTitle="Taxonomy of the ant genus Nesomyrmex Wheeler (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) in the Afrotropical region, with a review of current species groups and description of a new species of the N. angulatus group from Mozambique"masterLastPageNumber="31"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="25"updateTime="1732492056321"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-document="CC-BY-3.0"zenodo-license-figures="CC-BY-3.0"zenodo-license-treatments="UNSPECIFIED">
<mods:titleid="92D8BCDF73721C5A8B1444AFE849D4A2">Taxonomy of the ant genus Nesomyrmex Wheeler (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) in the Afrotropical region, with a review of current species groups and description of a new species of the N. angulatus group from Mozambique</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="E0BB7183DD9D1136E30093135CAB755F">Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa. & Email: nmbanyana @ iziko. org. za & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 157 A 51 ED- 7 C 85 - 4 CA 3 - 84 E 4 - B 7 BD 1 E 2 A 7 E 8 F</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="CA9DA8B979E63E67D33674264FD8729D">Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna-son, Okinawa, Japan. & Email: tracy @ troglophile. com & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: C 821 F 482 - 744 F- 467 A-A 480 - 1 E 353001 A 51 F</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="144DB3D333A5C695D8E2CCFDD8CA308B">Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. S. A. & Email: garydalpert @ gmail. com & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 5 BD 71 BB 5 - 1 EDA- 4 E 05 - 84 E 1 - FE 71 EA 366767</mods:affiliation>
<bibRefCitationid="B80640C07C71FA69FCDBFB2EFC0E1EB6"author="Forel A."box="[865,1004,1161,1188]"pageId="24"pageNumber="25"pagination="306 - 351"refId="ref10286"refString="Forel A. 1913. Formicides du Congo Belge. Recoltes par MM. Bequaert, Luja, etc. Revue de Zoologie Africaine 2: 306 - 351."type="journal article"year="1913">Forel, 1913</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitationid="B80640C07C71FA69FDCCFB49FCDB1F1A"author="Forel A."box="[630,825,1262,1288]"pageId="24"pageNumber="25"pagination="306 - 351"refId="ref10286"refString="Forel A. 1913. Formicides du Congo Belge. Recoltes par MM. Bequaert, Luja, etc. Revue de Zoologie Africaine 2: 306 - 351."type="journal article"year="1913">Forel, 1913: 317</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitationid="B80640C07C71FA69FE63FA88FD7B1F58"author="Forel A."box="[473,665,1327,1354]"pageId="24"pageNumber="25"pagination="397 - 460"refId="ref10316"refString="Forel A. 1916. Fourmis du Congo et d'autres provenances recoltees par MM. Hermann Kohl, Luja, Mayne, etc. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 24: 397 - 460."type="journal article"year="1916">Forel 1916: 425</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitationid="B80640C07C71FA69FC99FAF4FC141F7F"author="Bolton B."box="[803,1014,1363,1389]"pageId="24"pageNumber="25"pagination="245 - 307"refId="ref9811"refString="Bolton B. 1982. A revision of six minor genera of Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 43: 245 - 307."type="journal article"year="1982">
from the other members of the group: eyes with 7–9 ommatidia in longest row; in profile mesosomal dorsum with conspicuously impressed metanotal groove; propodeal spines short and thick, elongate-triangular and only weakly longer than their basal width; in profile petiolar node nodiform, appearing approximately as long as high; in dorsal view petiolar node laterally denticulate; subpetiolar process without a long cuticular flange running back to the postpetiolar junction; dorsum of propodeum with standing hairs; first gastral tergite with standing hairs evenly distributed throughout.
by generally smaller body size, smaller eyes with less ommatidia, and a subpetiolar process without a long cuticular flange running back to the postpetiolar junction. The separation of
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. It is not clear at the moment whether or not these character states are sufficient to maintain their heterospecificity in the long term.
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had some doubts about this, too, and it is possible that they represent geographical varieties of the same species. However, at present, based on the scarcity of the material, especially of
<bibRefCitationid="B80640C07C70FA68FDF9F82FFD321DB1"author="Forel A."box="[579,720,1928,1955]"pageId="25"pageNumber="26"pagination="306 - 351"refId="ref10286"refString="Forel A. 1913. Formicides du Congo Belge. Recoltes par MM. Bequaert, Luja, etc. Revue de Zoologie Africaine 2: 306 - 351."type="journal article"year="1913">Forel, 1913</bibRefCitation>
This species is only known from very few specimens, collected from the D.R.
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