<documentid="301AD44D8ECDAFF4FA97E809F512DAFE"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="543E8C277C7BFA63FDF8FDA3FB111C5F"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 evelynae"docType="treatment"docVersion="12"lastPageNumber="19"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="19"updateTime="1732492056321"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-document="CC-BY-3.0"zenodo-license-figures="CC-BY-3.0"zenodo-license-treatments="UNSPECIFIED">
<mods:titleid="FE471B940627D9E3715113F4143E44D0">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="84B2DB12406B1B475E0474D1E536B7B8">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="5C8412F00F897A36D1C08DB7402F2FFF">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="C28B11B9FD4E95FC13B4FAA2A90F94A3">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="B80640C07C7BFA63FCE5FDA4FC0B180C"author="Forel A."box="[863,1001,515,542]"pageId="18"pageNumber="19"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</bibRefCitation>
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from the other species of the group: in profile mesosomal dorsum with conspicuously impressed metanotal groove; petiolar peduncle long; dorsum of propodeum without standing hairs; first gastral tergite lacking standing hairs except for single transverse row on posterior end of tergite.
group is fairly straightforward, since it is the only one that lacks standing hairs on most of the first gastral tergite while all other group species have standing hairs evenly distributed throughout this tergite. It also lacks standing hairs on the propodeum, a character shared only with
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available to the first author, it appears that this species is found commonly on trees, even though in small individual numbers, suggesting smaller colony sizes.
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. We consider this more of a sampling artefact though, and expect the species to be collected from the countries in between in future sampling projects.
