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et al.) (CAS); near ANGAP office,
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,
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, deciduous spiny forest (R.
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) (CAS); near road,
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,
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, spiny deciduous forest (R.
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.
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<subSubSection id="9B3CF31E055B29DDF6BE42B9C1600D21" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph id="92710DC8C0ADDE3FC22A1CF09E0C90CD" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="A1C86470DC6534C9E7147406275CC6E6" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">With head in full-face view, lateral margins of head anterior to eye level, parallel, and lacking erect hairs; lateral cephalic margin rounding to posterior margin; anteromedian clypeal margin continuously forming broad convexity; propodeal dorsum more or less straight and separated from declivity surface by broad angle.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="628BA8C00F82600B1C277F960141C45F" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="description">
<paragraph id="B8B6AAE3F80B408BFF095F9AE489B71A" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="071DA58D645E66B389D848B477A09E46" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<emphasis id="7369941C7A957C81DDA002872CEF565A" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Minor worker.</emphasis>
In full-face view, head sides anterior to level of eye parallel, converging progressively to posterior margin behind eye level; eyes protruding and large (EL/CL: 0.26
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0.01; 0.23-0.28), breaking lateral cephalic margin, level of its posterior border approximately located at posterior 1/4 of head (PoOc/CS: 0.26
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0.01; 0.24-0.28); frontal carinae posteriorly parallel (FR/CS: 0.26
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0.01; 0.23-0.27); clypeus without well-defined anterolateral angle, its anteromedian margin broadly convex; mandible with six teeth, the two apical teeth distantly spaced; antennal scape relatively long (SL/CS: 1.57
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0.08; 1.38-1.68). Promesonotum weakly convex, mesopropodeum almost flat; mesonotum flat immediately anterior to weakly visible metanotal groove; propodeal dorsum approximately straight, rounding progressively towards declivity; propodeal declivity ca. 1/3 length of dorsum. Petiolar node flattened anteroposteriorly or short and high, tapering dorsally; femur of hind leg flattened laterally and twisted near base.
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<paragraph id="E06610CDC9F03343B5CFE334A98E570D" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">First and second gastral tergites with a pair of white spots; erect hairs lacking on lateral margin of head; posterior margin of head with a pair of erect hairs; antennal scape only covered with appressed hairs; pronotum with a pair of erect hairs; posterodorsal angle of propodeum without erect hairs.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="AE47CB85A791BE50B504BDDB2F4C62B9" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Major worker.</emphasis>
With characteristics of minor worker, except for the following characters: enlarged head (CS: 3.22
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0.15; 3.03-3.39; CWb/CL: 0.93
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0.01; 0.92-0.93) with noticeable medial excision on posterior margin; straight anterior clypeal margin; apical 1/4 of antennal scape surpassing posterior cephalic margin; propodeum dorsum and declivity the same length.
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<subSubSection id="4ABDFAF2508A4BB2500AB011D57963C2" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="54EFFEDA4B83838714AB552CE0AF6D2C" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Distribution and biology.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="13964328D7A0A4500E800A5D3E58B139" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<taxonomicName id="3C6E1914E60F5A8E1D7DD9EF2A74A122" authorityName="Rakotonirina &amp; Fisher" authorityYear="2022" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus asara" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="asara">
<emphasis id="6D1C35D5BCDE8CE158E9BF94B3BF6C65" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Camponotus asara</emphasis>
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is endemic to Madagascar and geographically restricted to the dry forest of the PN Zombitse in the southern high plateau of the island and the relict montane rainforest of the PN Ambohijanahary (Fig.
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). Colony nests can be in rotten logs and in rot pockets above the ground. Workers have been found foraging in leaf litter and on the ground.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="93443E5C8701C11E3652FB3E84A42278" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figure 42.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="8F5107ECE78623E301ACD27ADF2A38A5" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Camponotus asara</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="F798EEEC8DCEC9C0F1765D7C792C1A59" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">A</emphasis>
lateral view
<emphasis id="4F0192E610CF2437EBE83B48893CAE6B" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B</emphasis>
head in full-face view
<emphasis id="C7E8C8B974985C81282CCD8836BA1D63" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">C</emphasis>
dorsal view of holotype minor worker CASENT0493252
<emphasis id="096D7BE6067412103EA25E4BEECF0083" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">D</emphasis>
distribution map.
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<paragraph id="0B5A31E976F7B5F7C3CDE25DEB918BBE" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Discussion.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="B16A064ABBCDADA0FBC2828B91E6865F" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<taxonomicName id="18FDC8B63C027E9F729CF2B3F12160A6" authorityName="Rakotonirina &amp; Fisher" authorityYear="2022" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Camponotus asara" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="asara">
<emphasis id="737B400D57D256A6171661DD37AB8CF9" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Camponotus asara</emphasis>
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is morphologically similar to
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<emphasis id="E5EBDBF0FB4C0D3F3B57405A52FF45A8" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">C. bozaka</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="DDF06B6B6F0AC6B007C34B1A4AD94894" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">C. becki</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in that its petiolar node is more or less compressed anteroposteriorly in lateral view and its body color is black to dark brown, or the posterior portion of the mesosoma is pale brown to yellow. However,
<taxonomicName id="3DE56D59E2FEFFEDB669090F7619896E" lsidName="C. bozaka" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="bozaka">
<emphasis id="46083DAB712EEC054F57314BBB5EFD17" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">C. bozaka</emphasis>
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has a scalelike petiolar node, short and high mesosoma, and propodeal dorsum that joins the declivity in a blunt angle with a length &lt;2
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height of the declivity, the junction being angulate. Regarding
<taxonomicName id="ECBD1AB2226898EC6AE8D2F264966B47" lsidName="C. becki" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="becki">
<emphasis id="37F408A5535E4C470353B87F94F07BBB" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">C. becki</emphasis>
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, its anteromedian clypeal margin is truncate and a few erect hairs are present on the lateral margin of the head behind the level of the posterior ocular margin.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="43B8BD88DB4CB338AFCA26433B588F23" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
The cluster of the samples for
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<emphasis id="058E3535C868E3EB8888CA9CF833EFC7" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">C. asara</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the NC-clustering dendrogram is supported by LDA with a classification success of 100%.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C6044ACBEF41347F4D13FB5BE66E71B1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="A66D722E7F49880CD2888B12F85EAFB7" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="E6FFD8356C84DB74C900D03FCBC5E910" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
The species name
<emphasis id="84DD338055A97B6DE7589BF204DD4D80" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">asara</emphasis>
is a non-Latin singular noun used in apposition.
</paragraph>
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