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The following character combination distinguishes
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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.
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The recognition of this species within the
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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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, whereas the other five species have short, standing pilosity on the propodeum.
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<emphasis id="EEE3E1237C7BFA63FF07FB66FEFE1EC9" bold="true" box="[189,284,1217,1243]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Biology</emphasis>
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It prefers rain forests where it lives in the canopy stratum. Based on canopy fogging samples from
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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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<subSubSection id="948D6EBA7C7BFA63FF07FAD0FB111C5F" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" type="distribution">
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<emphasis id="EEE3E1237C7BFA63FF07FAD0FEB41F83" bold="true" box="[189,342,1399,1425]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Distribution</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="1B9746B27C7BFA63FF07FA00FE261FD2" baseAuthorityName="Forel" baseAuthorityYear="1916" box="[189,452,1446,1472]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Nesomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="evelynae">
<emphasis id="EEE3E1237C7BFA63FF07FA00FE261FD2" box="[189,452,1446,1472]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Nesomyrmex evelynae</emphasis>
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is found in Equatorial Africa ranging from
<collectingCountry id="A4807DA17C7BFA63FC73FA01FB841FD2" box="[969,1126,1446,1472]" name="Burkina Faso" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Burkina Faso</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="A4807DA17C7BFA63FB1BFA01FB0C1FD2" box="[1185,1262,1446,1472]" name="Ghana" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Ghana</collectingCountry>
in the west through the
<collectingCountry id="A4807DA17C7BFA63FEF0FA6EFD931FF1" box="[330,625,1481,1507]" name="Central African Republic" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Central African Republic</collectingCountry>
and the D.R.
<collectingCountry id="A4807DA17C7BFA63FCA9FA6EFC831FF1" box="[787,865,1481,1507]" name="Democratic Republic of the Congo" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Congo</collectingCountry>
to
<collectingCountry id="A4807DA17C7BFA63FC3CFA6EFC031FF1" box="[902,993,1481,1507]" name="Uganda" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Uganda</collectingCountry>
and
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in the east. The known distribution is disjunctive since
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<emphasis id="EEE3E1237C7BFA63FD86FA4AFD2A1C14" box="[572,712,1516,1542]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">N. evelynae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is not known from the countries between
<collectingCountry id="A4807DA17C7BFA63FB72FA4BFAF71C14" box="[1224,1301,1516,1542]" name="Ghana" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Ghana</collectingCountry>
and the
<collectingCountry id="A4807DA17C7BFA63FF07F9A8FE011C3B" box="[189,483,1551,1577]" name="Central African Republic" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Central African Republic</collectingCountry>
and the D.R.
<collectingCountry id="A4807DA17C7BFA63FD39F9B7FD371C38" box="[643,725,1552,1578]" name="Democratic Republic of the Congo" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Congo</collectingCountry>
. 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.
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