Taxonomic revision of the Temnothorax salvini clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a key to the clades of New World Temnothorax
Author
Prebus, Matthew M.
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States & Department of Entomology & Nematology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States
mprebus@gmail.com
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PeerJ
2021
e 11514
2021-06-30
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1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11514
journal article
10.7717/peerj.11514
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fuscatus
group overview
With four species (one described as new here), the
fuscatus
group is another small group with a range spanning the mid-to-high elevations of central
Mexico
to southern Central America (
Fig. 107
). All nest collections of
fuscatus
group species have been from arboreal habitats, either nesting in vegetation (alive or dead) on live trees or in epiphytes. The low, long petiolar node distinguishes this group from nearly everything else in the
salvini
clade. Apparently, the
fuscatus
group is sister to the ground-nesting
pergandei
group (Prebus, in prep.).