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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/7A7E365F-BF96-4BD0-A272-E74CDB7BF3D9" authority="Heterick, Castalanelli &amp; Shattuck" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Melophorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melophorus gibbosus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="92" pageNumber="93" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gibbosus">Melophorus gibbosus Heterick, Castalanelli &amp; Shattuck</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="92" pageNumber="93">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<paragraph pageId="92" pageNumber="93">Types.</paragraph>
<paragraph lastPageId="93" lastPageNumber="94" pageId="92" pageNumber="93">
Holotype minor worker from Alligator Creek, S. Flinders Ra., South Australia, 23 April 1973, P.J. 
<taxonomicName genus="M." lsidName="M." pageId="92" pageNumber="93" rank="genus">M.</taxonomicName>
Greenslade [ANIC32-900191] (ANIC). Paratypes: 2 major workers, 2 minor workers, 1 alate queen, 1 male from Watsonia, Victoria, 24 May 
<pageBreakToken pageId="93" pageNumber="94" start="start">1958</pageBreakToken>
, B. B. Lowery, ' 
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Melophorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melophorus biroi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="93" pageNumber="94" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="biroi">Melophorus biroi</taxonomicName>
' [sic] [ANIC32-900073] (BMNH); 3 minor workers from CSIRO Lake Mere field stn near Louth, New South Wales, paddock B Grove, January 1995, 
<taxonomicName genus="M." lsidName="M." pageId="93" pageNumber="94" rank="genus">M.</taxonomicName>
Bryannah, 'Meloph. sp. 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
6' (MCZ); minor worker from Bauple, Queensland, August 1996, C. Vanderwoude, S.F. 958 
<taxonomicName lsidName="E. maculata" pageId="93" pageNumber="94" rank="species" species="maculata">E. maculata</taxonomicName>
open forest plot 11 cpt 19, 
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Melophorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melophorus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="93" pageNumber="94" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Melophorus</taxonomicName>
sp. B (QM), 1 media worker from Fowlers Gap, New South Wales, November 1979, P.J. 
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Greenslade, Traps 5 (27) (WAM).
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<paragraph pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Other material examined.</paragraph>
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Queensland: 
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(Beutel, T.), Proserpine, Deadman Creek (Raven, R.), Tindaree, Hannaford Rd South via Tara (House, A./Brown, S.). South Australia: Mt. Remarkable, Flinders Ranges (Greenslade, P.J. 
<taxonomicName genus="M." lsidName="M." pageId="93" pageNumber="94" rank="genus">M.</taxonomicName>
[ANIC32-900072]), Oraparinna, Flinders Ranges (Greenslade, P.J. 
<taxonomicName genus="M." lsidName="M." pageId="93" pageNumber="94" rank="genus">M.</taxonomicName>
). Western Australia: Queen Victoria Spring (CALM [JDM32-001570]), Westonia (Harris, R. et. al. [JDM32-001569]).
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<paragraph pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="93" pageNumber="94">
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Melophorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melophorus gibbosus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="93" pageNumber="94" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gibbosus">Melophorus gibbosus</taxonomicName>
is a member of the 
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. aeneovirens" pageId="93" pageNumber="94" rank="species" species="aeneovirens">M. aeneovirens</taxonomicName>
species-group (in full-face view, the anterior clypeal margin convex, apron-like and covering whole or part of the retracted mandible, except in 
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. nemophilus" pageId="93" pageNumber="94" rank="species" species="nemophilus">M. nemophilus</taxonomicName>
, the medial clypeal sector often produced so that it is protrusive when seen in profile; the psammophore frequently with coarse and well-separated ammochaetae, these always placed on or just above anterior margin; in profile, the propodeum elongate and oblique or broadly rounded), and the 
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. aeneovirens" pageId="93" pageNumber="94" rank="species" species="aeneovirens">M. aeneovirens</taxonomicName>
species-complex (in full-face view, psammophore ranged along or just above anterior margin of clypeus and following the curve of the margin; anterior margin of clypeus broadly medially produced, and often with central notch that may be deeply impressed, but is never acuminate at its midpoint; metatibia with maximum of two rows of preapical spines). In 
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. gibbosus" pageId="93" pageNumber="94" rank="species" species="gibbosus">M. gibbosus</taxonomicName>
the tibiae possess fine, appressed pubescence in addition to stout, socketed, appressed to subdecumbent setae. Unlike its near relative, 
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. griseus" pageId="93" pageNumber="94" rank="species" species="griseus">M. griseus</taxonomicName>
, the frontal carinae of the worker are not raised or laminate at the edges; the frontal triangle is triangular in appearance and the sides of the head of minor worker are not divergent below eyes. In profile, the pronotum and mesonotum form a strong convexity, and this is very distinctive of the ant. The major worker also has a uniformly microreticulate head.
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<paragraph pageId="93" pageNumber="94">Minor worker description.</paragraph>
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Head. Head approximately oval with straight sides; posterior margin of head weakly convex; frons matt or with weak sheen, microreticulate or microreticulate-shagreenate; frons consisting of appressed pubescence, with many short, unmodified, erect setae. Eye moderate (eye length 0.20-0.49 length of side of head capsule); in full-face view, eyes set above midpoint of head capsule; in profile, eye set anteriad of midline of head capsule; eye more-or-less circular. In full-face view, frontal carinae concave; frontal lobes straight in front of antennal insertion. Anteromedial clypeal margin narrowly convex and protruding, clypeal midpoint distinctly notched; clypeal psammophore set at or just above anterior clypeal margin; palp formula 6,4. Five to six mandibular teeth in minor worker; mandibles triangular, weakly incurved; third mandibular tooth distinctly shorter than apical tooth and teeth numbers two and four; masticatory margin of mandibles approximately vertical or weakly oblique. Mesosoma. Integument of pronotum, mesonotum and mesopleuron moderately shining and shagreenate throughout; anterior mesosoma in profile prono 
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smoothly rounded anteriad and flattened posteriad, mesonotum narrowly convex; appearance of erect pronotal setae short, (i.e., longest erect setae shorter than length of eye) and unmodified; in profile, metanotal groove shallow, broadly V or U-shaped; propodeum shining and shagreenate; propodeum always smoothly rounded; propodeal dorsum and declivity confluent; erect propodeal setae present and abundant (greater than 12); appressed propodeal setulae long and closely aligned, creating pubescence; propodeal spiracle situated at least twice its width from the declivitous face of propodeum, and shorter (length &lt;0.50 
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height of propodeum). Petiole. In profile, petiolar node squamiform; in full-face view, shape of petiolar node uniformly rounded; node shining and distinctly shagreenate-microreticulate. Gaster. Gaster weakly shining with indistinct shagreenation; pilosity of first gastral tergite consisting of thick, appressed setae that form pubescence, interspersed with numerous short, bristly, erect setae. General characters. Colour concolorous brown.
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<paragraph pageId="94" pageNumber="95">Major worker description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="94" pageNumber="95">
Head. Head oval; posterior margin of head planar or weakly convex; cuticle of frons matt or with weak sheen, microreticulate; frons consisting of appressed pubescence, with many short, unmodified, erect setae. Eye moderate (eye length 0.20-0.49 length of head capsule); in full-face view, eyes set above midpoint of head capsule; in profile, eye set anteriad of midline of head capsule; eyes elliptical. In full-face view, frontal carinae straight, divergent posteriad; frontal lobes straight in front of antennal insertion. Anterior clypeal margin narrowly convex and protruding anteromedially, clypeal midpoint notched; clypeal psammophore set at or just above anterior clypeal margin; palp formula 6,4. Five mandibular teeth in major worker; mandibles triangular, weakly incurved; third mandibular tooth distinctly shorter than apical tooth and teeth numbers two and four; masticatory margin of mandibles approximately aligned vertically or weakly oblique. Mesosoma. Integument of pronotum, mesonotum and mesopleuron matt with indistinct shagreenate sculpture throughout; anterior mesosoma in profile pronotum smoothly rounded anteriad and flattened posteriad, mesonotum narrowly convex; erect pronotal setae short, (i.e., shorter than length of eye) and unmodified; in profile, metanotal groove shallow, broadly V- or U-shaped; propodeum matt or with a weak sheen and indistinctly shagreenate; propodeum smoothly rounded or with indistinct angle; propodeal dorsum and declivity confluent; erect propodeal setae present and abundant (at least a dozen); appressed propodeal setae long and closely aligned, creating pubescence; propodeal spiracle situated nearer to midpoint of propodeum than to its declivitous face, and shorter (length less than 0.50 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
height of propodeum). Petiole. In profile, petiolar node squamiform; in full-face view, shape of petiolar node generally rounded with median indentation; node shining and faintly shagreenate-microreticulate. Gaster. Gaster weakly shining with indistinct shagreenation; pilosity of first gastral tergite consisting of thick, appressed setae that form pubescence, interspersed with numerous short, bristly, erect setae. General characters. Colour brown, head and gaster darker than mesosoma.
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<paragraph pageId="94" pageNumber="95">Measurements.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="94" pageNumber="95">Worker (n = 6): CI 95-107; E 18-27I; EL 0.21-0.27; HL 0.81-1.42; HW 0.77-1.52; ML 1.14-1.62; MTL 0.65-0.93; PpH 0.13-0.23; PpL 0.49-0.73; SI 77-121; SL 0.93-1.18.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="95" pageNumber="96">
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.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="95" pageNumber="96">
As with several other members of its species-group, 
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has a wide distribution in mainland Australia, but is relatively uncommon. Based on its appearance, this species seems to be a member of a small clade that also includes 
<taxonomicName genus="M." lsidName="M." pageId="95" pageNumber="96" rank="genus">M.</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName lsidName="griseus" pageId="95" pageNumber="96" rank="species" species="griseus">griseus</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName lsidName="M. canus" pageId="95" pageNumber="96" rank="species" species="canus">M. canus</taxonomicName>
. However, this can not be tested as no specimens were available for sequencing. Specimen data indicate it has been collected from 
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Eucalyptus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Eucalyptus maculata" order="Myrtales" pageId="95" pageNumber="96" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="maculata">Eucalyptus maculata</taxonomicName>
open forest and from 
<taxonomicName class="Pinopsida" family="Cupressaceae" genus="Callitris" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Callitris" order="Pinales" pageId="95" pageNumber="96" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">Callitris</taxonomicName>
woodland as well as from a paddock. Queensland Museum material also confirms its presence in mulga and brigalow regrowth. Erect bristly setae all over the head, body, antennal scapes and legs and a thoracic hump in the minor worker are sufficient to identify this species. The major worker has a distinctive, uniformly microreticulate frons.
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<paragraph pageId="95" pageNumber="96">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="95" pageNumber="96">
Late Latin 
<taxonomicName lsidName="gibbosus" pageId="95" pageNumber="96" rank="species" species="gibbosus">gibbosus</taxonomicName>
(
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); adjective in the nominative singular.
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<paragraph pageId="95" pageNumber="96">
Figure 13. 
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sp. n.: major worker paratype (ANIC32-900073-second point from top; end ant) frons (a), profile (b) and dorsum (c); minor worker holotype (ANIC32-900031) frons (d), profile (e) and dorsum (f); distribution map for the species (g). Low resolution scale bars: 1 mm (b, c); 0.5 mm (a, 
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); 0.2 (d).
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