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<mods:title id="4824476C41BFFA6FD63523EDBCD0CBE7">A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).</mods:title>
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<treatment id="704C72C6634D221944C539FDC3AA1873" ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6268070" ID-GBIF-Taxon="100132964" ID-Zenodo-Dep="6268070" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:704C72C6634D221944C539FDC3AA1873" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/704C72C6634D221944C539FDC3AA1873" lastPageNumber="18" pageNumber="17">
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<taxonomicName id="B9A4678066C1D27C4BFFFEB376353486" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183466" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax nitens (Emery)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="17" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitens">Temnothorax nitens (Emery</taxonomicName>
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, 1895d)
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<paragraph id="6A2B54790A8B182C51A3A95935FB5A1C" pageNumber="17">(Figure 8)</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="94FC601ACC5E2AA263AE255FF85ED003" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:30330" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Leptothorax" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Leptothorax nitens Emery" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="17" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitens">Leptothorax nitens Emery</taxonomicName>
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1895d: 322.
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<materialsCitation id="4F625D4CED1E26DB17079B052958994A" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="923893280" collectionCode="USNM" country="U. S. A." location="American Fork Canon" stateProvince="Utah" typeStatus="Holotype">
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<typeStatus id="E1925FF672594BEC9CF3FA4882B8DF20">Holotype</typeStatus>
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worker,
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<location id="A2FB25616AE5F56EA2A7E3B6C83FD987" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:704C72C6634D221944C539FDC3AA1873:A2FB25616AE5F56EA2A7E3B6C83FD987" name="American Fork Canon" stateProvince="Utah">American Fork Canon</location>
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,
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[
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<collectionCode id="095492AE4E58AF8F622D42AE18CC0716" collectionName="USA, Washington D.C., National Museum of Natural History, [formerly, United States National Museum]">USNM</collectionCode>
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] [Examined]
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="6C2D0FBCDD9141CBCADDB8C607FA852F" country="U. S. A." pageNumber="17">
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<taxonomicName id="66DBE939A5EE573782BC130297E94704" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:139748" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Leptothorax" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Leptothorax nitens var. mariposa Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="17" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="variety" species="nitens" variety="mariposa">Leptothorax nitens var. mariposa Wheeler</taxonomicName>
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1917a: 507.
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<materialsCitation id="C832770776679A70C2746DECAFED1D67" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="923893290" collectionCode="LACM, MCZC" country="U. S. A." location="Camp Curry, Yosemite" stateProvince="California" typeStatus="syntypes">
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Nine
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<typeStatus id="191DAB2CE50D1C424516A4E811FEC684">syntype</typeStatus>
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workers,
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<location id="674182ECA7BAB3C15EEAF7CE50B90895" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:704C72C6634D221944C539FDC3AA1873:674182ECA7BAB3C15EEAF7CE50B90895" name="Camp Curry, Yosemite" stateProvince="California">Camp Curry, Yosemite</location>
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,
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<collectingRegion id="3C432F27BFAAC5DBB1688C4990D3209D">California</collectingRegion>
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[
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<collectionCode id="32B14CF6F8F55D700D5443F6B6DB8E20" collectionName="USA, California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History">LACM</collectionCode>
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,
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<collectionCode id="D993C7927EEDBCF25402A051E27384E2" collectionName="USA, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology">MCZC</collectionCode>
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] [Examined]
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="D79B3C7E8664D28868B2AD5957E28DAF">Syn. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<paragraph id="7EF9FAF04ECF37B083202C04390D1F1F" pageNumber="17">
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<taxonomicName id="42D9F784FB57A569742D756DAED53760" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:30304" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Leptothorax" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Leptothorax mariposa Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="17" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mariposa">Leptothorax mariposa Wheeler</taxonomicName>
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; Cole 1958c: 536. Raised to species.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="BF804D2E04C205E2ADACCFCE63D6400C" country="U. S. A." pageNumber="17">
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<taxonomicName id="460B247945488CAE1E5C2E39718FC4F5" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183580" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Leptothorax" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Leptothorax melinus Mackay" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="17" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="melinus">Leptothorax melinus Mackay</taxonomicName>
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2000: 368.
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<materialsCitation id="1CDA19FADF4C7E7332FB941620EAC702" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="923893285" collectionCode="MCZC" collectorName="W. Mackay" country="U. S. A." county="Socorro Co." location="Beartrap Cyn., 2286 m" specimenCode=" 16889" stateProvince="New Mexico" typeStatus="Holotype">
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<typeStatus id="E5977D187FF5912A8D8595671F28B408">Holotype</typeStatus>
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worker,
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<location id="D9E3000EBEAF0DD94392ACCF08324CA9" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:704C72C6634D221944C539FDC3AA1873:D9E3000EBEAF0DD94392ACCF08324CA9">Beartrap Cyn.</location>
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,
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<collectingCounty id="CFABB2339A8B1CD4B4DE60586750013C">Socorro Co.</collectingCounty>
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,
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,
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<location id="7C3EA08A35C16AB8B2D07932EAB5E471" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:704C72C6634D221944C539FDC3AA1873:7C3EA08A35C16AB8B2D07932EAB5E471" county="Socorro Co." name="2286 m" stateProvince="New Mexico">2286 m</location>
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(
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<specimenCode id="761756963AFDD7EF783B2CF8D4648DF4">#16889</specimenCode>
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) [
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]
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[Examined].
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<materialsCitation id="4CC86B62AC76958B38B2CA95CC2C64B3" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="923893292" collectionCode="LACM" collectorName="W. Mackay" country="U. S. A." county="Socorro Co." location="Beartrap Cyn., 2286 m" specimenCode=" 16889" stateProvince="New Mexico" typeStatus="paratypes">
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Two
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<typeStatus id="AC9F350D25A8980779373B388571445B">paratype</typeStatus>
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workers in
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<collectionCode id="AFB626582E563B8B23C532F3C1FF456C" collectionName="USA, California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History">LACM</collectionCode>
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(same data)
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also examined.
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="D8BAC83267CD17D096AA918274B2B610">Syn. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<paragraph id="3215F817C8DBBCCEE73BDA0D125242E1" pageNumber="18">
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<taxonomicName id="8848854925FE64A223E5EC66AA9642FB" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183459" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax mariposa (Wheeler)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mariposa">Temnothorax mariposa (Wheeler)</taxonomicName>
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; Bolton 2003: 271. First combination in
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<taxonomicName id="37F1C44363793C047A5CB8FE8385670C" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:147258" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax Mayr" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Temnothorax</taxonomicName>
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.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="C06E31779249EA3F92F728A698439470" pageNumber="18">
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<taxonomicName id="8C2A7C5478FF41A2B22BB1139C3DF54B" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183529" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax melinus (Mackay)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="melinus">Temnothorax melinus (Mackay)</taxonomicName>
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; Bolton 2003: 271. First combination in
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<taxonomicName id="9F89938149844187712C4F2163BA86A7" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:147258" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax Mayr" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Temnothorax</taxonomicName>
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.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="1F7A8B6E84B5D2D01EAEDFE1D2CEAD9A" pageNumber="18">
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<taxonomicName id="E0AE781C4CF0E7EA18D31166B3B79C6A" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183466" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax nitens (Emery)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitens">Temnothorax nitens (Emery)</taxonomicName>
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; Bolton 2003: 271. First combination in
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<taxonomicName id="7073932FA87FE95DB12E6455159690BD" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:147258" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax Mayr" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Temnothorax</taxonomicName>
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.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="4830474374E097D46BFEF741149433C5" type="discussion">
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<paragraph id="1C87F9820C00CCB3AB7914C22C64A578" pageNumber="18">
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Comments.
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<taxonomicName id="791EAA86DC50C2271847BD54762DFBC0" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183466" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax nitens (Emery)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitens">T. nitens</taxonomicName>
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is a common western United States species characterized by a strongly cuneate (wedge-shaped) petiole, as seen in profile (Fig. 8). Body color varies from pale yellow to medium brown. Integument sculpture tends to be light; the head and mesosoma are finely reticulate-foveolate, with extensive shiny areas usually on the front of the head and occasionally on the mesosoma dorsum. The propodeal spines are variable, relatively short but better developed (on average) than in
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<taxonomicName id="1A04C77274BECBC65822A5FA72D73EBE" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183423" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax andrei (Emery)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="andrei">T. andrei</taxonomicName>
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, and usually as prominent as the anteroventral petiolar process, or more so (Figure 8). In the holotype worker of
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<taxonomicName id="B3C5C45EC594A8A8E38E64A442BD2B06" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183466" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax nitens (Emery)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitens">T. nitens</taxonomicName>
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the mesosoma dorsum is smooth and shiny centrally, but as noted by others (Wheeler 1903d; Cole 1958c) the head and mesosomal sculpture is highly variable in this species, and both shiny and more heavily sculptured workers can be found in the same nest. I have also observed this in California populations from the Sierra Nevada. The California workers with a shiny promesonotum tend to have weak longitudinal carinulae encroaching anteriorly and laterally, as in the
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<taxonomicName id="1B1758F9973ED8090BC6C35B6BC242E4" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183466" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax nitens (Emery)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitens">T. nitens</taxonomicName>
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type.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="FD35787D77EF997181BD732D8EC7F7A1" pageNumber="18">
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Mackay’s (2000) treatment of
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<taxonomicName id="99D45DD7A12C815CEF4E97E3AD8DF3D3" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183466" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax nitens (Emery)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitens">T. nitens</taxonomicName>
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is inconsistent. On the one hand he seems to accept a broad concept of the species, showing it as having a wide distribution in western North America, accepting the previous synonymy of
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<taxonomicName id="2FC34521963BCB67738BE573E1F1CFA7" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:139778" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Leptothorax" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Leptothorax nitens var. heathii Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="variety" species="nitens" variety="heathii">heathii</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName id="0D2EAB5C7C79D302132F4841A797B839" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:234205" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax nitens occidentalis (Wheeler)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="nitens" subSpecies="occidentalis">occidentalis</taxonomicName>
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under
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<taxonomicName id="74852D686E8C5BA76E3B511518EBD2EA" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183466" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax nitens (Emery)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitens">T. nitens</taxonomicName>
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(incorrectly, as it turns out -see under
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<taxonomicName id="C7025F454B8291904BADDDE7C09765BC" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183423" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax andrei (Emery)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="andrei">T. andrei</taxonomicName>
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), and citing biological data from a diverse selection of localities. On the other hand, he describes a colony series from New Mexico as a new species (
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<taxonomicName id="A5DC349DC2CDEBFACC62B85EE04E0DB1" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183529" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax melinus (Mackay)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="melinus">melinus</taxonomicName>
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), even though it falls well within the ambit of
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<taxonomicName id="FB15D3859E2A59E1561C231E4E028C2D" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183466" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax nitens (Emery)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitens">T. nitens</taxonomicName>
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(sensu lato). Restricting the use of the name
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<taxonomicName id="1AF2EA8F8A65624A87A68ED7487FF462" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183466" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax nitens (Emery)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitens">T. nitens</taxonomicName>
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to workers with an especially shiny mesosoma is difficult to justify, given the patterns of intranidal variation described above. It seems more reasonable to treat it as a polytypic species, with variable effacement of the mesosomal sculpture.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="6F15E318E0042108C723F016E46741B7" pageNumber="18">
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<taxonomicName id="5C3A88E02CD9490E3B806EDCF293A03A" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183459" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax mariposa (Wheeler)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mariposa">T. mariposa</taxonomicName>
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was originally described as a variety of
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<taxonomicName id="539CFFDC7F70953F420168F980D7F014" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183466" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax nitens (Emery)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitens">T. nitens</taxonomicName>
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. It was synonymized under that species by Creighton (1950a), and later resurrected by Cole (1958c) and raised to species. Cole’s argument was that both forms co-occurred in the Yosemite region without intergrading. But examination of a large series of nitens-like specimens from throughout the California Sierra Nevada challenges this thesis. It leads me to the conclusion that
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<taxonomicName id="40F82159B56D50C2B1000029562D4CFD" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183459" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax mariposa (Wheeler)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mariposa">T. mariposa</taxonomicName>
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simply connotes larger individuals of
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<taxonomicName id="C63699594DC0DFDD78C7ACFA0B41A2BC" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183466" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax nitens (Emery)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitens">T. nitens</taxonomicName>
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which have correspondingly broader heads and a tendency towards darker body color and coarser sculpture on the side of the mesosoma. There is no evidence of a gap in this size variation (nor in the correlated variation in shape, color and sculpture).
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<materialsCitation id="F5BC5D3A7FC97254738E8F6FA06397A5" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="923893299" collectionCode="LACM" collectorName="Cole" country="U. S. A." location="Yosemite" specimenCode="136, 184, 198, 201, 230, 231, 233" stateProvince="California">
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The
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<collectionCode id="7C5B549C9857484775A3766CB1DA561C">LACM</collectionCode>
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collection has nitens-like nest series collected by
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<collectorName id="6BE94D8FDD95329AEEACD6E6AB9FFE1B">Cole</collectorName>
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at
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<location id="177895037ACE37DFAD1B2BD29D7BC7C1" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:704C72C6634D221944C539FDC3AA1873:177895037ACE37DFAD1B2BD29D7BC7C1" name="Yosemite">Yosemite</location>
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. His accessions 136, 184, 198, 201, 230, 231 and 233 are identified as “
|
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<taxonomicName id="B236CC7D352286C194B677DE90831FE0" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183466" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax nitens (Emery)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitens">nitens</taxonomicName>
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||
” and 239 as “
|
||
<taxonomicName id="A1EED610EA141EF95953E1EE7F034791" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183459" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax mariposa (Wheeler)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mariposa">mariposa</taxonomicName>
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||
”.
|
||
</materialsCitation>
|
||
The “
|
||
<taxonomicName id="B62EEF991907D9C28EA9A5534FC53FC8" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183466" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax nitens (Emery)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitens">nitens</taxonomicName>
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||
” series are collectively smaller and more lightly sculptured than accession 239, but accessions 230, 231 and 233 have workers approaching those of 239 in size and sculpture. Moreover, the syntypes of T.
|
||
<taxonomicName id="B513563FF891BACF9E4FCED775BC09F7" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:183459" authority="Mayr, 1861" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1861" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Temnothorax mariposa (Wheeler)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mariposa">mariposa</taxonomicName>
|
||
(LACM, MCZC) agree more closely with the majority series (136 to 233) than with 239, so Cole’s attributions and conclusions are difficult to justify.
|
||
</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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