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<document ENCODING="UTF8" ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6297785" ID-GBIF-Dataset="e11b6056-45a6-4029-8669-a416074e8a0b" ID-GBIF-Taxon="100058521" ID-HNS-Pub="2587" ID-Zenodo-Dep="6297785" checkinTime="1401550658777" checkinUser="donat" docAuthor="Smith, Frederick" docDate="1855" docId="7EBE04D0957D3CE5BDCA40E4C12E06F4" docLanguage="en" docName="2587.xml" docOrigin="Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (2) 3" docSource="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30707646page/186/mode/1up" docTitle="Pseudomyrma oculata" docType="treatment" docVersion="7" lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="160" masterDocId="C7C4562A7E52832252DA8EAEE006EA54" masterDocTitle="Descriptions of some species of Brazilian ants belonging to the genera Pseudomyrma, Eciton and Myrmica (with observations on their economy by Mr. H. W. Bates)" masterLastPageNumber="169" masterPageNumber="156" pageId="3" pageNumber="159" updateTime="1645862115776" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>Descriptions of some species of Brazilian ants belonging to the genera Pseudomyrma, Eciton and Myrmica (with observations on their economy by Mr. H. W. Bates)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Smith, Frederick</mods:namePart>
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<mods:title>Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (2)</mods:title>
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<mods:date>1855</mods:date>
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<mods:number>3</mods:number>
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<mods:start>156</mods:start>
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<mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification>
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<mods:identifier type="HNS-Pub">2587</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">10.5281/zenodo.10243</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6297785" ID-GBIF-Taxon="100058521" ID-Zenodo-Dep="6297785" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:7EBE04D0957D3CE5BDCA40E4C12E06F4" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/7EBE04D0957D3CE5BDCA40E4C12E06F4" lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="160" pageId="3" pageNumber="159">
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<subSubSection pageId="3" pageNumber="159" type="nomenclature">
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="159" type="mainText">
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Sp. 8.
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<taxonomicName authority="Guérin-Ménéville, 1844" authorityName="Guérin-Ménéville" authorityYear="1844" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pseudomyrma" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="159" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="oculata">Pseudomyrma oculata</taxonomicName>
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. (PI. XIII.)
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<subSubSection lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="160" pageId="3" pageNumber="159" type="description">
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Female.-Length lines. The head, antennae, prothorax, tibise and tarsi, pale rufo-testaceous; the head elongate, full twothirds of the length of the thorax; it is also wider than the latter;
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<pageBreakToken pageId="4" pageNumber="160" start="start">the</pageBreakToken>
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eyes very large, placed rather more within the face than in the other species; the antennae rather more thickened at the apex than in the other species of the genus; the meso- and metathorax, abdomen and femora, fusco-testaceous; wings hyaline, nervures pale testaceous, the stigma fuscous; the sides of the thorax nearly parallel, transverse in front, the angles rounded; the metathorax obliquely rounded at the sides,
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="160" type="mainText">Worker.-2 lines. Closely resembling the female, but having the thorax strangulated in the middle, and compressed at the sides, and being altogether of a paler colour.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="4" pageNumber="160" type="discussion">
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There is considerable difference in the form of the thorax and head of this species when compared with the others; and had I not possessed the female, and had an opportunity of observing that the neuration of the wings is identical with that of the others, I should probably have placed this insect in a separate genus. In addition to these reasons for retaining it, I have the observation of Mr. Bates on its habits, that of coursing over trunks of trees and leaves, in the same manner as the other species; and his note of observation-"this curious
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmica" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="160" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Myrmica</taxonomicName>
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is closely allied to No. 70,"
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<taxonomicName authority="Guérin-Ménéville, 1844" authorityName="Guérin-Ménéville" authorityYear="1844" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pseudomyrma" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="160" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nigriceps">P. nigriceps</taxonomicName>
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.
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<subSubSection pageId="4" pageNumber="160" type="distribution">
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="160" type="mainText">Also from Brazil, in my own and other Collections.</paragraph>
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