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Putative
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08341705FE8A4F60FE7DE3D0" bold="true" box="[262,420,1126,1152]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="46">Lordomyrma</emphasis>
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species discussed by
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Two Asian species originally described in genus
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08341705FD754FA8FCB5E395" box="[761,876,1198,1221]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="46">Stenamma</emphasis>
Westwood
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were assigned to
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08341705FB534FABFAA9E395" box="[1247,1392,1197,1221]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="46">Lordomyrma</emphasis>
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by
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: (1)
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08341705FE124FD4FD43E3B9" box="[414,666,1233,1257]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="46">Stenamma bhutanense</emphasis>
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from
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, and (2)
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08341705FB154FD4FABEE3B9" box="[1177,1383,1234,1257]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="46">Stenamma sinense</emphasis>
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from Shanxi Province, North
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. Branstetter also recognized and illustrated voucher specimens of two additional similar morphospecies designated as (3) “
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08341705FBA34E1FFB19E261" box="[1071,1216,1305,1329]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="46">Lordomyrma</emphasis>
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cf.
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1” from
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(MCZC collection) and (4) “
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08341705FDE04E3BFD24E205" box="[620,765,1341,1365]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="46">Lordomyrma</emphasis>
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cf.
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2” from Yunnan Province, southern
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(CASC collection)(see his figs 2533, which also depict the
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08341705FCB14E64FC01E229" box="[829,984,1377,1401]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="46">S. bhutanense</emphasis>
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).
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These taxa in my opinion seem unlikely to be congeneric with
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08341705FC484E83FB1AE2CD" box="[964,1219,1413,1437]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="46">Lordomyrma furcifera</emphasis>
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on morphological grounds, compromising their assignment to
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08341705FD1D4EAFFCFBE291" box="[657,802,1449,1473]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="46">Lordomyrma</emphasis>
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however closely they might be related in Branstetters phylogeny (see also the more immediately relevant phylogeny of
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fig 3). They differ from the
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08341705FF4C4EF7FE73E159" box="[192,426,1521,1545]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="46">Lordomyrma azumai</emphasis>
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conformational paradigm as follows: (1) the absence of antennal scrobes and foveae, and (2) differences in clypeal structure, notably the presence of an anteromedian angle. Also, the conformation of the mesosoma and waist nodes is quite unlike that of any known morphospecies at present plausibly referable to
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08341705FF1B4D58FEF1E126" box="[151,296,1630,1654]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="46">Lordomyrma</emphasis>
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.
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Some species or groups of species presently assigned to
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08341705FCDE4D87FC3AE1C9" box="[850,995,1665,1689]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="46">Lordomyrma</emphasis>
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lack antennal scrobes and foveae (see illustrations in
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). The several examples are widely separated geographically and conformationally dissimilar. Their similarities in this detail may be attributed in part to multiple homoplasy involving repeated secondary loss of the antennal foveae within the
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08341705FC824DE8FC46E056" box="[782,927,1774,1798]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="46">Lordomyrma</emphasis>
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clade. Antennal scrobes and foveae are synapomorphically present in most
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08341705FDC64C17FD02E079" box="[586,731,1809,1833]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="46">Lordomyrma</emphasis>
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species, including all of those known from mainland or archipelagic S.E. Asia.
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A median clypeal point or denticle is present also in the New
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Highlands endemic nominal genus
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08341705FF1B4C78FED4E0C6" box="[151,269,1918,1942]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="46">Ancyridris</emphasis>
Wheeler
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, which has been previously discussed as a possible junior synonym of
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08341705FB5D4C78FABBE0C6" box="[1233,1378,1918,1942]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="46">Lordomyrma</emphasis>
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(see
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1. See http://www.antweb.org/description.do?name=
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Taylor, 2010), and also (uniquely in known nominal
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FD6E4B9EFCAAE7E0" box="[738,883,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Lordomyrma</emphasis>
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species) in
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FC7B4B9FFB5AE7E0" box="[1015,1155,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">L. epinotalis</emphasis>
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(Ysabel,
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), a species also illustrated in the Antweb gallery.
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</emphasis>
cf.
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FEF44BE6FDE2E7A8" box="[376,571,224,248]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">polyrhachioides”</emphasis>
Wheeler (of Lucky &amp; Sarnat, with voucher specimen illustrated on Antweb) and
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FF4B4A03FE82E64C" box="[199,347,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FF4B4A03FE8EE64C" ID-CoL="3W6XD" box="[199,343,260,284]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="epinotalis">L. epinotalis</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
along with the Australian
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FD074A02FCC5E64C" box="[651,796,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Lordomyrma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
AU02 of the Antweb gallery and the problematical taxa discussed by Branstetter, are excluded from the phyletic “triangle” which includes all species of “
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FA874A2EFA45E610" box="[1291,1436,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Lordomyrma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FF1B4A4BFF0FE634" box="[151,214,333,356]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" sensu="stricto" species="sensu">sensu</taxonomicName>
stricto
</taxonomicNameLabel>
” represented in Lucky &amp; Sarnat fig 3, so they might in fact not be components of the ultimate
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FF1B4A76FEF1E6D8" ID-CoL="5GSQ" box="[151,296,368,392]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FF1B4A76FEF1E6D8" box="[151,296,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Lordomyrma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
phylad, or taxonomically referable to
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FD754A76FC48E6D8" box="[761,913,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FD754A76FC54E6D8" ID-CoL="5GSQ" box="[761,909,368,392]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Lordomyrma</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
though they are shown to be derived from common ancestral stock. All of them, incidentally, lack antennal foveae.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="7F2336CE08371706FF4B4AB1FE88E4BC" blockId="2.[151,1436,151,1004]" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">
<bibRefCitation id="1B0D4B3F08371706FF4B4AB1FE77E69F" author="Eguchi" box="[199,430,439,464]" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" refString="Eguchi, K., Bui Tuan Viet &amp; Yamane, S. (2011) Generic Synopsis of the Formicidae of Vietnam (Insecta: Hymenoptera), Part I - Myrmicinae and Pseudomyrmecinae. Zootaxa, 2878, 1 - 61." type="journal article" year="2011">
Eguchi
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FEAE4ABFFE87E680" box="[290,350,440,464]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">et. al</emphasis>
(2011
</bibRefCitation>
: 16-18) suggest that the problematic species discussed by Branstetter are more likely congeneric with those of genus
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FD914ADBFD70E6A4" box="[541,681,477,500]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Lasiomyrma</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="1B0D4B3F08371706FD3B4ADBFBD4E6A4" author="Terayama" box="[695,1037,476,501]" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" refString="Terayama, M. &amp; Yamane, S. K. (2000) A new stenammine ant genus from southeast Asia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomological Science, 3 (3), 523 - 527." type="journal article" year="2000">Terayama &amp; Yamane (2000)</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, which has three named species, respectively from Java, Sabah and
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(
<bibRefCitation id="1B0D4B3F08371706FD024AF9FCECE547" author="Jaitrong" box="[654,821,511,535]" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" refString="Jaitrong, W. (2010) A new species of the ant genus Lasiomyrma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from Thailand. Sociobiology, 55, 427 - 431." type="journal article" year="2010">Jaitrong, 2010</bibRefCitation>
). This hypothesis should be further explored, as should the possible status of
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FE054923FDCCE56C" box="[393,533,549,572]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Lasiomyrma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
versus
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FDE04922FD24E56C" ID-CoL="5GSQ" box="[620,765,548,572]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FDE04922FD24E56C" box="[620,765,548,572]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Lordomyrma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
versus
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FCDF4922FC08E56C" box="[851,977,548,572]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FCDF4922FC14E56C" ID-CoL="VN9" box="[851,973,548,572]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ancyridris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Ancyridris</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
The status of
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<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FBFD4922FAAEE56C" box="[1137,1399,548,572]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Lordomyrma epinotalis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, in particular, and its possible affinity with the named
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FD40494FFC81E530" box="[716,856,585,608]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lasiomyrma" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FD40494FFC81E530" box="[716,856,585,608]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Lasiomyrma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species needs to be critically assessed. That species and the Australian
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FEE7496AFE25E5D4" ID-CoL="5GSQ" box="[363,508,620,644]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FEE7496AFE25E5D4" box="[363,508,620,644]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Lordomyrma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
AU02 of the Antweb gallery appear morphologically to be more closely related to the described
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FEBF4997FE66E5F8" box="[307,447,657,680]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lasiomyrma" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FEBF4997FE66E5F8" box="[307,447,657,680]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Lasiomyrma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species than to others assigned to
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FCCF4996FC0DE5F8" ID-CoL="5GSQ" box="[835,980,656,680]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus" sensu="stricto">
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FCCF4996FC0DE5F8" box="[835,980,656,680]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Lordomyrma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="56DB57A708371706FC574996FBB3E5F7" box="[987,1130,655,679]" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" sensu="stricto">
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FC574996FBC0E5F7" box="[987,1049,656,679]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" sensu="stricto" species="sensu">sensu</taxonomicName>
stricto
</taxonomicNameLabel>
, as do several other similar undescribed Australian and Melanesian species represented in the ANIC. Apropos, on the basis of sting morphology,
<bibRefCitation id="1B0D4B3F08371706FEBF49D1FE03E5BF" author="Kugler" box="[307,474,727,751]" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" refString="Kugler, C. (1994) A revision of the ant genus Rogeria with description of the sting apparatus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 3, 17 - 89." type="journal article" year="1994">Kugler (1994)</bibRefCitation>
found
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FDB449DFFD13E5A0" ID-CoL="3W6XD" box="[568,714,728,752]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="epinotalis">
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FDB449DFFD13E5A0" box="[568,714,728,752]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">L. epinotalis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
“very different from the other
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FBDD49DEFB3BE5A0" ID-CoL="5GSQ" box="[1105,1250,728,752]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FBDD49DEFB3BE5A0" box="[1105,1250,728,752]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Lordomyrma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species I have examined”, in a context where “With the exception of
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FC8B49FBFC42E444" box="[775,923,764,788]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FC8B49FBFC4EE444" ID-CoL="3W6XD" box="[775,919,764,788]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="epinotalis">L. epinotalis</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
all of the
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FB9F49FAFB7DE444" ID-CoL="5GSQ" box="[1043,1188,764,788]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FB9F49FAFB7DE444" box="[1043,1188,764,788]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Lordomyrma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species examined (
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FA0949FBFEAFE467" ID-CoL="6QMCS" authority="Andre" authorityName="Andre" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="caledonica">
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FA0949FBFECBE468" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">L. caledonica</emphasis>
(André)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FE084827FDBDE467" authority="Mann" authorityName="Mann" box="[388,612,799,824]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="levifrons">
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FE084827FDDDE468" box="[388,516,800,824]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">L. levifrons</emphasis>
(
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)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FDFD4827FC51E467" ID-CoL="3W6XJ" authority="Wheeler" authorityName="Wheeler" box="[625,904,799,824]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="punctiventris">
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FDFD4827FCFAE468" box="[625,803,801,824]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">L. punctiventris</emphasis>
Wheeler
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FC144827FB83E468" ID-CoL="3W6XK" authority="Emery" authorityName="Emery" box="[920,1114,799,824]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rouxi">
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FC144827FC2BE468" box="[920,1010,801,824]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">L. rouxi</emphasis>
(Emery
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FBC34826FB83E468" box="[1103,1114,800,824]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">)</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FBE44827FA92E467" ID-CoL="3W6XN" authority="Mann" authorityName="Mann" box="[1128,1355,799,824]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="striatella">
L. striatella (
<collectingCountry id="078B765E08371706FB724819FA9BE467" box="[1278,1346,799,823]" name="Isle of Man" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Mann</collectingCountry>
)
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FA094827FE80E40C" ID-CoL="3W6XP" authority="Mann" authorityName="Mann" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tortuosa">
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FA094827FF2DE40C" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">L. tortuosa</emphasis>
(
<collectingCountry id="078B765E08371706FE8F4842FE9EE40C" box="[259,327,836,860]" name="Isle of Man" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Mann</collectingCountry>
))
</taxonomicName>
have several distinctive characters within the myrmicines” (
<bibRefCitation id="1B0D4B3F08371706FB884842FA5CE40C" author="Kugler" box="[1028,1413,836,860]" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" refString="Kugler, C. (1997) Stings of some species of Lordomyrma and Mayriella (Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Insecta Mundi, 11, 193 - 199." type="journal article" year="1997">Kugler, 1997, species list inserted</bibRefCitation>
). Placement in
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FEBE486EFE7CE42F" ID-CoL="7MDH" box="[306,421,872,895]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Stenamma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FEBE486EFE7CE42F" box="[306,421,872,895]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Stenamma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
of the taxa discussed by Branstetter seems genuinely inappropriate, as he indicated. That noted, they seem best provisionally accommodated as “
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FC8D488BFC07E4F4" box="[769,990,908,932]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">species inquirendae</emphasis>
” in either
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FBD8488AFB3CE4F4" ID-CoL="5GSQ" box="[1108,1253,908,932]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FBD8488AFB3CE4F4" box="[1108,1253,908,932]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Lordomyrma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
or
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FA85488BFA4CE4F4" box="[1289,1429,909,932]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lasiomyrma" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FA85488BFA4CE4F4" box="[1289,1429,909,932]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Lasiomyrma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, mainly because convention requires discussion of such taxa in binomial combination. The
<taxonomicName id="B89C4D4D08371706FB0148B6FAC7E498" ID-CoL="5GSQ" box="[1165,1310,944,968]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="4DE8EADC08371706FB0148B6FAC7E498" box="[1165,1310,944,968]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="47">Lordomyrma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
alternative is accepted here.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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