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Forel
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(
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF97041FFA7FF73EA298B63FB57" box="[151,360,1148,1170]" italics="true" pageId="63" pageNumber="64">Iridomyrmex conifer</emphasis>
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worker (here designated) from 
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Worker Description. 
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF97041FFA7FE26EB54880CFADF" bold="true" box="[450,519,1281,1306]" italics="true" pageId="63" pageNumber="64">Head.</emphasis>
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Posterior margin of head strongly concave; erect setae on posterior margin in fullface view set in a row, or present in small aggregations on one or both sides of posterior margin of head, or present singly or as a couple of setae on either side of posterior margin of head, or absent; sides of head noticeably convex; erect genal setae absent from sides of head in full-face view (one to a few small setae may be present near mandibular insertion). Ocelli absent; in full-face view, eyes set at about midpoint of head capsule; in profile, eye set anteriad of head capsule; eye semi-circular, or asymmetrical, curvature of inner eye margin more pronounced than that of its outer margin. Frontal carinae convex; antennal scape surpassing posterior margin of head by 0.2-0.5 x its length. Erect setae on scape absent, except at tip; prominence on anteromedial clypeal margin projecting as blunt but distinct protuberance; mandible elongate triangular with oblique basal margin; long, curved setae on venter of head capsule absent. 
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Pronotum moderately and evenly curved over its length, or weakly undulant or almost straight. Erect pronotal setae moderate in number (6-12), short and bristly, or sparse (6 or fewer) and bristly, or lacking or very minute (one or two tiny setae may be present). Mesonotum sinuous. Erect mesonotal setae sparse (6 or fewer) and bristly, or sparse to absent. Mesothoracic spiracles always inconspicuous; propodeal dorsum protuberant; placement of propodeal spiracle mesad, more than its diameter away from propodeal declivity; propodeal angle present as a bluntly defined acute angle, the propodeal dorsum conical in shape. Erect propodeal setae sparse to absent. 
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF97041FFA7FEE9E9488B68F8F3" bold="true" box="[269,355,1821,1846]" italics="true" pageId="63" pageNumber="64">Petiole.</emphasis>
Dorsum of node acuminate, or convex; node thin, scale-like, orientation more-or-less vertical.
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Non-marginal erect setae of gaster present or absent on first gastral tergite; marginal erect setae of gaster present on first tergite, or absent on first tergite. 
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF97041FFA7FD21E93089A0F8BB" bold="true" box="[709,939,1893,1918]" italics="true" pageId="63" pageNumber="64">General characters.</emphasis>
Allometric differences between workers of same nest absent. Colour reddish-brown to reddish black. Colour of erect setae pale yellowish.
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(n = 21) 
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CI 95–105; EI 20–25; EL 0.23–0.29; EW 0.13–0.18; HL 1.08–1.35; HW 1.05–1.38; ML 0.53–0.77; PpH 0.27–0.44; PpL 0.63–0.85; SI 95–110; SL 1.13–1.35.
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703EFFD8FF73EADC8B2BFB65" bold="true" box="[151,288,1161,1184]" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">FIGURE 25.</emphasis>
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(syntype, Perth, WA, ANIC32-017916): A. Front of head; B. Side of body; C. Top of body; D. Distribution of material examined (A. Noble, www.antweb.org).
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The 
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703EFFD8FE6CEAA18BE5FACE" box="[392,494,1267,1291]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">I. conifer</emphasis>
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species-group (minus 
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703EFFD8FD08EAA1895EFACE" box="[748,853,1267,1291]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">I. alpinus</emphasis>
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) was revised by 
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&amp; McMillan in 1998. The separation of 
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703EFFD8FED5EB4D8B31FAEA" box="[305,314,1304,1327]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">I</emphasis>
. 
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and 
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703EFFD8FE36EB4D8BD0FAEA" box="[466,475,1304,1327]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">I</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703EFFD8FE0EEB42885FFAEA" box="[490,596,1303,1327]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">turbineus</emphasis>
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based on morphology is open to some debate, the character being used in the key proposed by the above authors (namely, erect mesosomal setae) exhibiting a variable pattern. The erect setae have two different characters, those found in 
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703EFFD8FD06EB3588E0FAB2" box="[738,747,1376,1399]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">I</emphasis>
. 
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being long and flexuous, whereas the erect setae found in ants here referred to 
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703EFFD8FE0DEBD18BF9FA5E" box="[489,498,1412,1435]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">I</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703EFFD8FDE5EBD68845FA5E" box="[513,590,1411,1435]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">conifer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703EFFD8FDA9EBD68862FA5E" box="[589,617,1411,1435]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">—</emphasis>
where they occur at all—are short and stout. Worker samples held in the Curtin Ant Collection exhibit this variable pilosity: e.g., a worker of 
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703EFFD8FC44EBFD89A2FA7A" box="[928,937,1448,1471]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">I</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703EFFD8FC5CEBF28E0DFA7A" box="[952,1030,1447,1471]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">conifer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, collected in 
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703EFFD8FB7BEBF28EF2FA7A" box="[1183,1273,1447,1471]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">Banksia</emphasis>
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sandplain just north of Perth, possesses more than six short, stout setae on the pronotum, while other workers from locations on the Swan Coastal Plain often possess a couple to half-a-dozen stout, erect mesonotal setae with or without accompanying pronotal setae. Ants collected at localities in the Darling Scarp or near the south coast tend to have a completely glabrous mesosoma. There also appear to be subtle differences in the appressed pilosity, although this feature has to be balanced against the often poor mounting and preservation of pinned workers, especially of older specimens: the Swan Coastal Plain ants have mainly smooth, straight setulae, whilst those from the uplands and south coast often have these setulae linked together in small skeins, giving the ant a more woolly appearance. The much more extensive ANIC holdings reveal the same pattern: pins of workers from Jurien Bay and Perth possess one or a few short to very short, stout, erect setae on the pronotum and/or mesonotum, whereas ants from the Darling Scarp and the south coast region have a completely glabrous mesosoma. A pin of 
<specimenCount id="698AFD62703EFFD8FB63E95A8F28F8E2" box="[1159,1315,1807,1831]" pageId="64" pageNumber="65" type="worker">three workers</specimenCount>
from Yallingup, near the extreme southern portion of the Swan Coastal Plain shows an intermediate pilosity pattern; in this case the many erect pronotal setae are short and rather stout, and less than the maximum diameter of the antennal scape, whereas the longest flexuous setae in 
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703EFFD8FD6EE9298898F856" box="[650,659,1916,1939]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">I</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703EFFD8FD45E92E8900F856" box="[673,779,1915,1939]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">turbineus</emphasis>
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are longer than the maximum antennal scape diameter.
</paragraph>
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The overall picture suggests the presence of three, possibly four separate or largely separate populations of south-western members of the 
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703EFFD8FE12E9918BF4F81E" box="[502,511,1988,2011]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">I</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703EFFD8FDEBE9968855F81E" box="[527,606,1987,2011]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">conifer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
complex. 
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703EFFD8FD32E99689D5F81E" box="[726,990,1987,2011]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">Iridomyrmex setoconus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(discussed below) has unique features, and is easily recognisable. 
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703FFFD9FE22EECD88C3FF75" box="[454,712,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="65" pageNumber="66">Iridomyrmex turbineus</emphasis>
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can be identified by the flexuous pronotal setae, which are usually numerous. Within 
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703FFFD9FE7EEEE88BA8FF11" box="[410,419,189,212]" italics="true" pageId="65" pageNumber="66">I</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703FFFD9FE55EEE98BF4FF11" box="[433,511,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="65" pageNumber="66">conifer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, there is a weaker signal of two populations, one found on or largely on the Swan Coastal Plain, and the other with a more extensive distribution in the Darling Range and along the south coast and in the southwest corner of 
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. In their revision of the 
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703FFFD9FC20EF5089C6FED9" box="[964,973,261,284]" italics="true" pageId="65" pageNumber="66">I</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703FFFD9FC3BEF518E25FED9" box="[991,1070,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="65" pageNumber="66">conifer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group, 
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and McMillan (1998)
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discuss the presence of two disjunct populations of 
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703FFFD9FCCDEF7C8939FE85" box="[809,818,297,320]" italics="true" pageId="65" pageNumber="66">I</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703FFFD9FCA5EF7D8984FE85" box="[833,911,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="65" pageNumber="66">conifer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but these only partially correspond to the biogeography implied here. The two authors also examined apparently variable traits within the taxon, namely the angle of the propodeum and the appearance of the erect and suberect gula setae, but were unable to find strong correlation consistent with genetic separation. The two authors of this current paper consider it would be highly desirable to examine the abovementioned variability in a future taxonomic project that selectively targets nest samples of 
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703FFFD9FF53EF888ACBFE31" box="[183,192,477,500]" italics="true" pageId="65" pageNumber="66">I</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703FFFD9FF34EF898B32FE31" box="[208,313,476,500]" italics="true" pageId="65" pageNumber="66">turbineus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and the two populations of 
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703FFFD9FD9AEF88888CFE31" box="[638,647,477,500]" italics="true" pageId="65" pageNumber="66">I</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703FFFD9FD73EF8988EDFE31" box="[663,742,476,500]" italics="true" pageId="65" pageNumber="66">conifer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
mentioned here (i.e., the hairy form and the glabrous form), using both morphological and molecular techniques.
</paragraph>
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&amp; McMillan (1998)
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discuss the unique nest construction to be observed for 
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703FFFD9FB9BEC708E83FDF9" box="[1151,1160,549,572]" italics="true" pageId="65" pageNumber="66">I</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703FFFD9FB72EC718EEFFDF9" box="[1174,1252,548,572]" italics="true" pageId="65" pageNumber="66">conifer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. In winter, nests are constructed with an above ground thatched mound consisting of vegetation such as small twigs, grass, grass and cladodes of 
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703FFFD9FEFBEC398B9EFD41" box="[287,405,620,644]" italics="true" pageId="65" pageNumber="66">Casuarina</emphasis>
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, while summer nests are subterranean without an above ground mound. Underground nests are constructed within easy foraging distance (i.e., no greater than one metre from a food source), whereas winter mound nests may be up to 12 metres from food sources. The latter are always situated within a sunny position. The diet of the adult ants is mainly nectar and honeydew, with nectar being preferred when available. The ants will also scavenge arthropods, earthworms and small, dead vertebrates (
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&amp; McMillan, 1998
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).
</paragraph>
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