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The following character combination distinguishes
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from the other species of the group: eyes with 79 ommatidia in longest row; in profile mesosomal dorsum with conspicuously impressed metanotal groove; propodeal spines relatively long and thin, several times longer than their basal width; in profile petiolar node high, rectangular nodiform, appearing around twice as high as long; 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.
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<paragraph id="DC283D317C73FA6BFF07FB43FE251EEC" blockId="26.[189,455,1252,1278]" box="[189,455,1252,1278]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">
<heading id="87608A5D7C73FA6BFF07FB43FE251EEC" bold="true" box="[189,455,1252,1278]" fontSize="11" level="3" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" reason="3">
<emphasis id="EEE3E1237C73FA6BFF07FB43FE251EEC" bold="true" box="[189,455,1252,1278]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Diagnostic comments</emphasis>
</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="DC283D317C73FA6BFF07FAB4FBB51F42" blockId="26.[189,1399,1299,1360]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">
As pointed out above,
<taxonomicName id="1B9746B27C73FA6BFE72FAB3FD8E1F3F" baseAuthorityName="Arnold" baseAuthorityYear="1948" box="[456,620,1300,1325]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Nesomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="stramineus">
<emphasis id="EEE3E1237C73FA6BFE72FAB3FD8E1F3F" box="[456,620,1300,1325]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">N. stramineus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is very close to
<taxonomicName id="1B9746B27C73FA6BFC94FAB3FC021F3F" baseAuthorityName="Mayr" baseAuthorityYear="1901" box="[814,992,1299,1325]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Nesomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="denticulatus">
<emphasis id="EEE3E1237C73FA6BFC94FAB3FC021F3F" box="[814,992,1299,1325]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">N. denticulatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="1B9746B27C73FA6BFBA1FAB3FB471F3F" baseAuthorityName="Forel" baseAuthorityYear="1913" box="[1051,1189,1300,1325]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Nesomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="innocens">
<emphasis id="EEE3E1237C73FA6BFBA1FAB3FB471F3F" box="[1051,1189,1300,1325]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">N. innocens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. For more details on its differentiation from them we refer to the species account of
<taxonomicName id="1B9746B27C73FA6BFC7FFA90FBB21F42" baseAuthorityName="Forel" baseAuthorityYear="1913" box="[965,1104,1335,1360]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Nesomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="innocens">
<emphasis id="EEE3E1237C73FA6BFC7FFA90FBB21F42" box="[965,1104,1335,1360]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">N. innocens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="948D6EBA7C73FA6BFF07FAD0FCDF1FF1" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" type="biology_ecology">
<paragraph id="DC283D317C73FA6BFF07FAD0FEFE1F83" blockId="26.[189,284,1399,1425]" box="[189,284,1399,1425]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">
<heading id="87608A5D7C73FA6BFF07FAD0FEFE1F83" bold="true" box="[189,284,1399,1425]" fontSize="11" level="3" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" reason="3">
<emphasis id="EEE3E1237C73FA6BFF07FAD0FEFE1F83" bold="true" box="[189,284,1399,1425]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Biology</emphasis>
</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="DC283D317C73FA6BFF07FA00FCDF1FF1" blockId="26.[189,1398,1446,1508]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">
<taxonomicName id="1B9746B27C73FA6BFF07FA00FE3C1FD2" baseAuthorityName="Arnold" baseAuthorityYear="1948" box="[189,478,1447,1472]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Nesomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="stramineus">
<emphasis id="EEE3E1237C73FA6BFF07FA00FE3C1FD2" box="[189,478,1447,1472]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Nesomyrmex stramineus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was sampled in savannah woodlands and Afromontane forests, where it lives in dead wood on trees (
<bibRefCitation id="B80640C07C73FA6BFE74FA6EFCD31FF1" author="Mbanyana N. &amp; Robertson H. G." box="[462,817,1481,1507]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" pagination="35 - 55" refId="ref10599" refString="Mbanyana N. &amp; Robertson H. G. 2008. Review of the ant genus Nesomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) in southern Africa. African Natural History 4: 35 - 55." type="journal article" year="2008">Mbanyana &amp; Robertson 2008</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="948D6EBA7C73FA6BFF07F9ADFDF11C65" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="DC283D317C73FA6BFF07F9ADFEB41C36" blockId="26.[189,342,1546,1572]" box="[189,342,1546,1572]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">
<heading id="87608A5D7C73FA6BFF07F9ADFEB41C36" bold="true" box="[189,342,1546,1572]" fontSize="11" level="3" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" reason="3">
<emphasis id="EEE3E1237C73FA6BFF07F9ADFEB41C36" bold="true" box="[189,342,1546,1572]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Distribution</emphasis>
</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="DC283D317C73FA6BFF07F99EFDF11C65" blockId="26.[189,1398,1593,1655]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">
This species occurs only in
<collectingCountry id="A4807DA17C73FA6BFE44F99EFD711C41" box="[510,659,1593,1619]" name="South Africa" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">South Africa</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="A4807DA17C73FA6BFD70F99EFCAA1C41" box="[714,840,1593,1619]" name="Swaziland" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Swaziland</collectingCountry>
. It seems to be rather rare since it is only known from a few collection events.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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