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<treatment id="707CF73F5B3718CC388C36FD905D07A6" ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6288812" ID-GBIF-Taxon="125135106" ID-Zenodo-Dep="6288812" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:707CF73F5B3718CC388C36FD905D07A6" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/707CF73F5B3718CC388C36FD905D07A6" lastPageNumber="177" pageNumber="177">
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<paragraph id="CFD2B482B015A64A777EBABA1EA9EEB6" pageNumber="177">
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<taxonomicName id="8A9B90B0E5F67B588D155CAA4FFFC5E4" ID-CoL="63JM8" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:24892" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Paedalgus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Paedalgus Forel" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="177" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Paedalgus</taxonomicName>
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Forel
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<paragraph id="845CC4710A606C6D4A1F1C9548C810BB" pageNumber="177">
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The worker of this peculiar genus which is closely related to
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<taxonomicName id="4DCC91FAD78412D2E6739969444E7652" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:24887" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Carebara" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Carebara Westwood" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="177" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Carebara</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName id="45966DB7184207B9EF5F5434E553835B" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:24890" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Oligomyrmex" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Oligomyrmex Mayr" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="177" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Oligomyrmex</taxonomicName>
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, is monomorphic, minute, brownish yellow, with the eyes reduced to one or two ommatidia placed near the anterior third of the sides of the head. Ocelli absent. Maxillary and labial palpi each 2-jointed. Mandibles rather narrow, with oblique 4-toothed apical borders. Clypeus convex and projecting in the middle, extending back between the frontal carinae, with a pair of longitudinal carinae, which converge somewhat behind but do not terminate in teeth anteriorly. Antennae rather stout, resembling those of
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<taxonomicName id="DC77D10EC2C74165A906032A0AD83E2B" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:24887" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Carebara" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Carebara Westwood" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="177" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Carebara</taxonomicName>
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, 9-jointed, with joints 2 to 6 of the funiculus small and transverse, the club large and distinct, 2-jointed. Thorax short and broad; the pronotum with rather angular humeri. Premesonotal suture lacking and, in the African species, with the mesoepinotal suture scarcely indicated. Epinotum sloping, the declivity on each side with a low vesiculate lamina resembling in structure the epinotal laminae of certain species of
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<taxonomicName id="5BB4F85886E443301E9C4C0ABAE84AB2" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:2458" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Strumigenys" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Strumigenys Smith" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="177" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Strumigenys</taxonomicName>
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.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="562121B0DB1B92E6F8291BEC17100E06" pageNumber="177">The female is considerably larger than the worker, with well-developed eyes and ocelli and 10-jointed antennae, the club of the latter being 3-jointed and longer than the remainder of the funiculus. Mandibles 5-toothed. Clypeus convex, ecarinate. Thorax short, high, and arched, much broader than the head. Wings unknown.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="EAEE571B97DD8A4CCE0D62089DCB5F85" pageNumber="177">The male has not been seen.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="E42D8B84C0815B6EC35BD92FEB772178" type="discussion">
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<paragraph id="35A88E09296D3469929F147EEA0EC173" pageNumber="177">
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Forel founded this genus on
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<taxonomicName id="DED08515624CBB546EEB2EDC6CE55E4D" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33415" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Paedalgus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Paedalgus escherichi Forel" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="177" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="escherichi">P. escherichi</taxonomicName>
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, a species discovered by Escherich in a small cavity in a mound of Termes obscuriceps at Peradenyia, Ceylon. The minute workers were "running about on the back of their huge queen, like lice." Santschi in 1913 described as
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<taxonomicName id="78EB2433882E9B343331349648A296F0" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:141897" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Oligomyrmex" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Oligomyrmex infimus Santschi" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="177" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="infimus">Oligomyrmex infimus</taxonomicName>
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from French Guinea the worker of a second species, which he later (1914) recognized as a
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<taxonomicName id="9240D6500AA01C5E3314A6540810AE48" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:24892" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Paedalgus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Paedalgus Forel" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="177" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Paedalgus</taxonomicName>
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. The following species is very similar.
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</paragraph>
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</treatment>
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