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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="150814487" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:AACE0D22A3FEF102E0864432F27392FF" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/AACE0D22A3FEF102E0864432F27392FF" lastPageId="210" lastPageNumber="211" pageId="206" pageNumber="207">
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<taxonomicName authority="McAreavey" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Melophorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melophorus bruneus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="206" pageNumber="207" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bruneus">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="206" pageNumber="207" start="start">Melophorus</pageBreakToken>
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bruneus McAreavey
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</taxonomicName>
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="206" pageNumber="207" type="reference_group">
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<paragraph pageId="206" pageNumber="207">
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Melophorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melophorus (Melophorus) brunea" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="206" pageNumber="207" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="brunea" subGenus="Melophorus">Melophorus (Melophorus) brunea</taxonomicName>
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<bibRefCitation author="McAreavey, J" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales" pageId="354" pageNumber="355" pagination="1 - 25" title="Australian Formicidae. New genera and species." url="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34914169page/33/mode/1up" volume="74" year="1949">McAreavey 1949</bibRefCitation>
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: 20, figs 57-65.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="206" pageNumber="207" type="types">
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<paragraph pageId="206" pageNumber="207">Types.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="206" pageNumber="207">Holotype minor worker carded with paratype major worker and queen on top card, and paratype major worker and paratype minor worker of bottom card, all on same pin, also paratype major, minor and media workers and queens on two other pins, Nyngan New South Wales [ANIC] (examined: ANIC specimens ANIC32-05344).</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="206" pageNumber="207" type="materials_examined">
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<paragraph pageId="206" pageNumber="207">Other material examined.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="206" pageNumber="207">
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New South Wales: 25 km ENE Fort Gray Homestead (Morton, S.R.), 40 mi N Warren (Lowery, B.B.), Bogan River (Armstrong, J.), Callubri Station, 2 mi from homestead (Greaves, T.), CSIRO Lake Mere Field Station, near Louth (Bryannah,
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<taxonomicName genus="M." lsidName="M." pageId="206" pageNumber="207" rank="genus">M.</taxonomicName>
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), Fowlers Gap (Greenslade, P.J.
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<taxonomicName genus="M." lsidName="M." pageId="206" pageNumber="207" rank="genus">M.</taxonomicName>
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), Fowlers Gap (Greenslade, P.J.
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<taxonomicName genus="M." lsidName="M." pageId="206" pageNumber="207" rank="genus">M.</taxonomicName>
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), Kapunda, N Nyngan (Greenslade, P.J.
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<taxonomicName genus="M." lsidName="M." pageId="206" pageNumber="207" rank="genus">M.</taxonomicName>
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), Sturt National Park (Greenslade, P.J.
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<taxonomicName genus="M." lsidName="M." pageId="206" pageNumber="207" rank="genus">M.</taxonomicName>
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), Trundle (Lowery, B.B.). Queensland:
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘Gumbardo’">'Gumbardo'</normalizedToken>
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(Beutel, T.),
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘Merigol’">'Merigol'</normalizedToken>
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(Beutel, T.), 12 mi WSW Camel Creek Homestead, W Ingham (Dowse, J.E.), 22 mi E Condamine (Dowse, J.E.), 25 km SW Warwick (Greenslade, P.J.
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<taxonomicName genus="M." lsidName="M." pageId="206" pageNumber="207" rank="genus">M.</taxonomicName>
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), 40 km E Cameron Corner (Greenslade, P.J.
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<taxonomicName genus="M." lsidName="M." pageId="206" pageNumber="207" rank="genus">M.</taxonomicName>
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), 65 km E Birdsville (Forrest, J.), Eulo (Greenslade, P.J.
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<taxonomicName genus="M." lsidName="M." pageId="206" pageNumber="207" rank="genus">M.</taxonomicName>
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), Illaweena St. Drewvale (QM Party), Redlands Hilliards Ck, nr South St (RHC1) (QM Party), St. George (Lowery, B.B.). South Australia: 15 km NE Umberatana, Flinders Ranges (Greenslade, P.J.
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<taxonomicName genus="M." lsidName="M." pageId="206" pageNumber="207" rank="genus">M.</taxonomicName>
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), Eyre Hwy, 9.7 km NE Cootra (Heterick, B.E. [M324]), Lake Short Res. (Churchett, G. & R. [M87/M102]), Vokes Hill, Victoria Desert (Greenslade, P.J.
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<taxonomicName genus="M." lsidName="M." pageId="206" pageNumber="207" rank="genus">M.</taxonomicName>
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). Victoria: 15 km WNW Yaapeet (Andersen, A.N.), Sea Lake (Goudie). Western Australia: 12 km S of Exmouth (Heterick, B.E. [JDM32-001781]), 64 km E of Southern Cross (Heterick, B.E. [JDM32-001784]), Sandstone Rd turnoff (Heterick, B.E. [M295]), Tropicana Minesite (Summerhayes, J. [JDM32-004538]).
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection lastPageId="208" lastPageNumber="209" pageId="206" pageNumber="207" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph pageId="206" pageNumber="207">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph lastPageId="208" lastPageNumber="209" pageId="206" pageNumber="207">
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Melophorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melophorus bruneus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="206" pageNumber="207" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bruneus">Melophorus bruneus</taxonomicName>
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can be placed in the
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. biroi" pageId="206" pageNumber="207" rank="species" species="biroi">M. biroi</taxonomicName>
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species-group on the basis of characters of the clypeus, propodeum, mandible and palps. The species is also placed in the
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. fieldi" pageId="206" pageNumber="207" rank="species" species="fieldi">M. fieldi</taxonomicName>
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species-complex because of the appearance of the anteriorly placed clypeal psammophore, the compact propodeum, the presence of more than one preapical spine on the metatibia, at least in the major worker, the long, even spindly legs and the unmodified mandible in the major worker.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Melophorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melophorus bruneus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="206" pageNumber="207" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bruneus">Melophorus bruneus</taxonomicName>
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workers require careful checking to distinguish them from related species, particularly those of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. turneri" pageId="206" pageNumber="207" rank="species" species="turneri">M. turneri</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. fieldi" pageId="206" pageNumber="207" rank="species" species="fieldi">M. fieldi</taxonomicName>
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. Most
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. bruneus" pageId="206" pageNumber="207" rank="species" species="bruneus">M. bruneus</taxonomicName>
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workers can be distinguished from all taxa except
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. fieldi" pageId="206" pageNumber="207" rank="species" species="fieldi">M. fieldi</taxonomicName>
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by the following combination of characters: (1) eye relatively large (eye length 0.50
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length of side of head capsule in minor worker, approximately 0.33
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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length of side of head capsule in major worker ≥), (2) in full-face view, periphery of upper frons surrounded to about the level of the eyes with short, bristly, erect setae that are often flattened distally; (3) minor worker small (HW ≈ 0.56-0.59 mm); (4) non-iridescent head of major worker relatively smooth and gleaming (e.g., Fig. 54(a)) and, (5) clypeal psammophore of fine setae placed at or about midpoint of clypeus. The minor worker of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Melophorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melophorus bruneus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="206" pageNumber="207" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bruneus">Melophorus bruneus</taxonomicName>
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is distinguished from that of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. fieldi" pageId="206" pageNumber="207" rank="species" species="fieldi">M. fieldi</taxonomicName>
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by its brown or dark reddish-brown but not blackish-brown colour that lacks a dull, silky sheen, by
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<pageBreakToken pageId="207" pageNumber="208" start="start">its</pageBreakToken>
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smoothly convex pronotum when seen in profile, by the longer, often flexuous erect setae on the mesosoma (length of longer setae ≥ greatest width of antennal scape) and, in relatively glabrous minor workers, the long and conspicuously pale appressed setae
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<pageBreakToken pageId="208" pageNumber="209" start="start">on</pageBreakToken>
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the mesosoma. The major worker has short, sometimes modified setae that are far more numerous than those of the major worker of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. fieldi" pageId="208" pageNumber="209" rank="species" species="fieldi">M. fieldi</taxonomicName>
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and these give a shaggy appearance to most majors; moreover, the appressed setae on gaster are longer than in
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. fieldi" pageId="208" pageNumber="209" rank="species" species="fieldi">M. fieldi</taxonomicName>
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and overlap. Some populations of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. bruneus" pageId="208" pageNumber="209" rank="species" species="bruneus">M. bruneus</taxonomicName>
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have glabrous minor workers. These can be distinguished from related species (particularly
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. turneri" pageId="208" pageNumber="209" rank="species" species="turneri">M. turneri</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. inconspicuus" pageId="208" pageNumber="209" rank="species" species="inconspicuus">M. inconspicuus</taxonomicName>
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) by their matt, microreticulate heads and the relatively long, pale, appressed setae on the gaster (similar species usually have erect setae on the mesosoma, they have smoother and more shining heads and they have short, appressed setae on the gaster).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="208" pageNumber="209" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="208" pageNumber="209">Minor worker description.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="208" pageNumber="209">
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Head. Head approximately oval with straight sides; posterior margin of head planar or weakly convex; frons matt or with weak sheen, microreticulate or microreticulate-shagreenate; pilosity of frons a mixture of a few well-spaced, erect setae interspersed with appressed setae only. Eye large (eye length ≥ 0.50
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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length of side of head capsule); in full-face view, eyes set at about midpoint of head capsule; in profile, eye set around midline of head capsule; eyes elliptical or slightly reniform. In full-face view, frontal carinae straight or weakly convex; frontal lobes curved toward antennal insertion. Anteromedial clypeal margin broadly and evenly convex; clypeal psammophore set at or above midpoint of clypeus; palp formula 6,4. Five to six mandibular teeth in minor worker; mandibles narrow, strap-like, internal and external margins parallel or nearly so; third mandibular tooth distinctly shorter than apical tooth and teeth numbers two and four; masticatory margin of mandibles approximately vertical or weakly oblique. Mesosoma. Integument of pronotum, mesonotum and mesopleuron shining and microreticulate, microreticulation reduced on humeri, or with weak to moderate sheen and superficial microreticulation (more pronounced on mesopleuron); anterior mesosoma in profile broadly convex; appearance of erect pronotal setae short, (i.e., longest erect setae shorter than length of eye) and unmodified, or short and often expanded distally, at times clavate; in profile, metanotal groove shallow, broadly V or U-shaped; propodeum matt or with a weak sheen and microreticulate; propodeum angulate, propodeal angle blunt; length ratio of propodeal dorsum to its declivity between 1:1 and 1:2; erect propodeal setae present and abundant (greater than 12); appressed propodeal setulae long and closely aligned, creating pubescence; propodeal spiracle situated nearer to midpoint of propodeum than to its declivitous face, and shorter (length <than 0.50
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height of propodeum). Petiole. In profile, petiolar node squamiform; in full-face view, shape of petiolar node uniformly rounded; node shining and distinctly shagreenate-microreticulate. Gaster. Gaster weakly shining with indistinct shagreenation; pilosity of first gastral tergite consisting of thick, appressed setae that form pubescence, interspersed with numerous short, bristly, erect setae. General characters. Colour brown, gaster (and often head) darker than mesosoma.
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<subSubSection lastPageId="209" lastPageNumber="210" pageId="208" pageNumber="209" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="208" pageNumber="209">Major worker description.</paragraph>
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<paragraph lastPageId="209" lastPageNumber="210" pageId="208" pageNumber="209">
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Head. Head square; posterior margin of head planar or weakly convex; cuticle of frons matt or with weak sheen, indistinctly shagreenate; pilosity of frons a mixture of a few well-spaced, erect setae interspersed with appressed setae only. Eye moderate (eye length 0.20-0.49 length of head capsule); in full-face view, eyes set at about midpoint of head capsule; in profile, eye set anteriad of mid
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<pageBreakToken pageId="209" pageNumber="210" start="start">line</pageBreakToken>
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of head capsule; eyes elliptical. In full-face view, frontal carinae straight, divergent posteriad; frontal lobes straight in front of antennal insertion. Anterior clypeal margin broadly convex with anteromedial dimple; clypeal psammophore set at or above midpoint of clypeus; palp formula 6,4. Five mandibular teeth in major worker; mandibles narrow, strap-like, internal and external borders parallel or nearly so; third mandibular tooth distinctly shorter than apical tooth and teeth numbers two and 4; masticatory margin of mandibles approximately aligned vertically or weakly oblique. Mesosoma. Integument of pronotum, mesonotum and mesopleuron matt with indistinct shagreenate sculpture throughout; anterior mesosoma in profile broadly convex; erect pronotal setae short, (i.e., shorter than length of eye) and unmodified, or short and often expanded distally, at times clavate; in profile, metanotal groove shallow, broadly V- or U-shaped; propodeum shining and shagreenate; propodeum angulate, propodeal angle blunt; length ratio of propodeal dorsum to its declivity between 1:1 and 1:2; erect propodeal setae present and abundant (at least a dozen); appressed propodeal setae long and separated by at least own length; propodeal spiracle situated at least twice its width from the declivitous face of propodeum, and shorter (length less than 0.50
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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height of propodeum), or situated on or beside declivitous face of propodeum, and shorter (length less than 0.50
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height of propodeum). Petiole. In profile, petiolar node squamiform; in full-face view, shape of petiolar node tapered with blunt vertex; node shining and faintly shagreenate-microreticulate. Gaster. Gaster shining, shagreenate ('LP
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appearance); pilosity of first gastral tergite consisting of well-spaced, erect and semi-erect setae interspersed with regularly spaced appressed setae. General characters. Colour of head and foreparts brownish-orange to brown with darker brown to blackish gaster.
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<subSubSection pageId="209" pageNumber="210" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="209" pageNumber="210">Measurements.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="209" pageNumber="210">Worker (n = 8): CI 103-127; EI 24-41; EL 0.24-0.37; HL 0.57-1.23; HW 0.59-1.55; ML 0.78-1.55; MTL 0.48-0.94; PpH 0.08-0.14; PpL 0.31-0.64; SI 64-108; SL 0.64-0.99.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection lastPageId="210" lastPageNumber="211" pageId="209" pageNumber="210" type="comments">
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<paragraph pageId="209" pageNumber="210">Comments.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="209" pageNumber="210">
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Major workers of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Melophorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melophorus bruneus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="209" pageNumber="210" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bruneus">Melophorus bruneus</taxonomicName>
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can be mistaken for the large-eyed major workers of some
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Melophorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melophorus turneri" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="209" pageNumber="210" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="turneri">Melophorus turneri</taxonomicName>
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, so careful attention needs to be given to the circlet of short, stout setae on the vertex of the head capsule and the numerous, short, curved, erect setae on the head and mesosoma in the former. Most minor workers are distinctive with their vestiture of long, flexuous setae, but some populations in the NT and SA lack such setae. In these cases the matt, microreticulate nature of the frons and long appressed setae on the mesosoma are diagnostic, except for separation from
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. fieldi" pageId="209" pageNumber="210" rank="species" species="fieldi">M. fieldi</taxonomicName>
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. Minor and major workers of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. fieldi" pageId="209" pageNumber="210" rank="species" species="fieldi">M. fieldi</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. bruneus" pageId="209" pageNumber="210" rank="species" species="bruneus">M. bruneus</taxonomicName>
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can be separated based on different degrees of pilosity. While material has been available for sequencing, obtaining molecular data has proven difficult. The position of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. bruneus" pageId="209" pageNumber="210" rank="species" species="bruneus">M. bruneus</taxonomicName>
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in the three-gene tree (Suppl. material 1) suggests a close relationship with
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. fulvidus" pageId="209" pageNumber="210" rank="species" species="fulvidus">M. fulvidus</taxonomicName>
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. However, this is counterindicated by evidence of likely hybridization with
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. turneri" pageId="209" pageNumber="210" rank="species" species="turneri">M. turneri</taxonomicName>
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(well-separated from
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. bruneus" pageId="209" pageNumber="210" rank="species" species="bruneus">M. bruneus</taxonomicName>
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on the three-gene tree). The evolutionary position of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. bruneus" pageId="209" pageNumber="210" rank="species" species="bruneus">M. bruneus</taxonomicName>
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within the
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. fieldi" pageId="209" pageNumber="210" rank="species" species="fieldi">M. fieldi</taxonomicName>
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complex must therefore be considered uncertain.
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<paragraph lastPageId="210" lastPageNumber="211" pageId="209" pageNumber="210">
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This species is widely distributed in all mainland Australian states, but is more common in drier, inland areas. Pitfall traps have accounted for most specimens, but
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<pageBreakToken pageId="210" pageNumber="211" start="start">some</pageBreakToken>
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have been hand-collected. Label data variously record savanna woodland,
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<taxonomicName class="Pinopsida" family="Cupressaceae" genus="Callitris" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Callitris" order="Pinales" pageId="210" pageNumber="211" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">Callitris</taxonomicName>
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, mallee, scribbly gum and heath and 'pure
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Eucalyptus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Eucalyptus dum" order="Myrtales" pageId="210" pageNumber="211" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="dum">Eucalyptus dum</taxonomicName>
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(osa)' habitat and there are two records of red soil. One specimen was collected in a parking bay. In all likelihood this a generalist scavenger of plant and animal matter like many other members of the
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. fieldi" pageId="210" pageNumber="211" rank="species" species="fieldi">M. fieldi</taxonomicName>
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complex. Minor workers collected by the principal author north of Wiluna, WA, in relatively cool conditions (for a
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Melophorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melophorus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="210" pageNumber="211" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Melophorus</taxonomicName>
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) emerged timidly from a single, simple nest hole in red, lateritic soil with many surface ironstone pebbles. There is no other mention of the ecology of the ant from the labels, and neither is there any other information from McAreavey in his description of the taxon.
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</paragraph>
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<caption pageId="210" pageNumber="211">
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<paragraph pageId="210" pageNumber="211">
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Figure 53.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Melophorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melophorus bruneus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="210" pageNumber="211" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bruneus">Melophorus bruneus</taxonomicName>
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McAreavey:
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<normalizedToken originalValue="non–type">non-type</normalizedToken>
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major worker (ANIC32-900218) frons (a), profile (b) and dorsum (c); minor worker paratype (ANIC32-053433-top card) frons (d), profile (e) and dorsum (f); distribution map for the species (g). Low resolution scale bars: 1 mm (b, c); 0.5 mm (a).
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</paragraph>
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</caption>
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