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<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF974BBEFEE6FE8F6837" bold="true" box="[151,363,295,321]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">Polyergus bicolor</emphasis>
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<figureCitation id="134971D5FFB5FF974BBEFE8BFEB76815" box="[151,339,330,355]" captionStart="FIGURES 9 – 11" captionStartId="33.[151,264,1698,1721]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,193,1676]" captionTargetId="figure@33.[151,1436,193,1677]" captionTargetPageId="33" captionText="FIGURES 9 – 11. Lateral, full face, and dorsal views of Polyergus bicolor worker CASENT 0281068. Photographs by Erin Prado from www. AntWeb. org." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/249145/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">Figures 9, 10, 11</figureCitation>
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<taxonomicName id="4C7216D3FFB5FF974BBEFE52FD6B68DE" authority="Wasmann 1901: 639" authorityName="Wasmann" authorityPageNumber="639" authorityYear="1901" box="[151,655,402,424]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Polyergus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="514" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="rufescens" subSpecies="bicolor">
<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF974BBEFE52FE5068DE" box="[151,436,403,424]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">Polyergus rufescens bicolor</emphasis>
Wasmann 1901: 639
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.
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workers, gyne, male:
<collectingCountry id="F3652DC0FFB5FF9748F8FE53FBE068DE" box="[977,1028,402,424]" name="United States of America" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">USA</collectingCountry>
,WISCONSIN Crawford Co., Prairie du Chien [MCZ, workers, red
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label 22970] (examined); [LACM, workers, male, host, red “
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series” label] (examined); [USNM, workers, 59719] (images examined).
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<taxonomicName id="4C7216D3FFB5FF974BBEFE2EFE2D6B72" box="[151,457,495,516]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Polyergus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="514" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="rufescens" subSpecies="breviceps">
<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF974BBEFE2EFE2D6B72" box="[151,457,495,516]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">Polyergus rufescens breviceps</emphasis>
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(part): Emery 1893: 666 (misidentification, mixed
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series).
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<taxonomicName id="4C7216D3FFB5FF974BBEFDCCFE876B54" box="[151,355,525,546]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Polyergus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="514" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rufescens">
<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF974BBEFDCCFE876B54" box="[151,355,525,546]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">Polyergus rufescens</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="4C7216D3FFB5FF974A41FDCCFC986B55" authority="Wheeler 1917: 555" authorityName="Wheeler" authorityPageNumber="555" authorityYear="1917" box="[360,892,525,547]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Polyergus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="514" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="variety" species="rufescens" subSpecies="breviceps" variety="fusciventris">
subsp.
<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF974A87FDCCFDEA6B54" box="[430,526,525,546]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">breviceps</emphasis>
var.
<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF974916FDCCFD506B54" box="[575,692,525,546]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">fusciventris</emphasis>
Wheeler 1917: 555
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(part). Unavailable name; following material referred here:
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, MANITOBA, South Cypress RM. Treesbank. (Wheeler) [USNM #59925, USNM ENT 00529453] (image examined).
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<typeStatus id="54C9D3F2FFB5FF974BBEFD4FFF176BD0" box="[151,243,654,678]" pageId="13" pageNumber="514" type="syntype">Syntype</typeStatus>
[LACM, red “
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series” label, top specimen] HL 1.30, HW 1.28, SL 1.04, ½ VeM 0, ½ PnM 0, WL 1.96, GL 1.88, HFL 1.48, CI 98, SI 81, HFI 116, FSI 142, LI 3.26, TL 5.14.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BCD6D50FFB5FF974BEEFD17FC106A40" blockId="13.[151,1436,653,2010]" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">Measurements (N=44) HL 1.24–1.66 (1.40), HW 1.24–1.74 (1.41), SL 0.92–1.16 (105), ½ VeM 0, ½ PnM 0– 2 (0.58), WL 1.88–2.32 (2.08), GL 1.60–2.80 (2.07), HFL 1.40–1.68 (1.55), CI 97–105 (100), SI 64–81 (75), HFI 97–120 (110), FSI 137–158 (147), LI 3.12–3.98 (3.48), TL 4.83–6.58 (5.56).</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF974BEEFC80FE5E6A2C" bold="true" box="[199,442,833,858]" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">Worker description.</emphasis>
Head subquadrate to suborbicular, its length and breadth about equal, sides often quite rounded; vertex concave, the concavity about half the head width in breadth, completely lacking vertex pilosity; scapes short, not reaching vertex corners, notably clavate in the apical third; pronotum lacking pilosity, or rarely with 1–2 dorsal erect setae; mesonotum profile flat or very weakly convex for most of its length; propodeum profile a rounded weakly obtuse angle; petiole with rounded sides, petiolar dorsum rounded, not at all or only feebly emarginate; first tergite moderately pubescent, with pilosity much like that of
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<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF974F49FC34FB2E6D78" box="[1120,1226,1013,1038]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">breviceps</emphasis>
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, in 4–5 transverse arrays; first tergite pilosity flexuous, subdecumbent.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BCD6D50FFB5FF974BEEFBFCFC6E6D20" blockId="13.[151,1436,653,2010]" box="[199,906,1085,1110]" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">Head matte; mesonotum matte; gaster matte to weakly shining.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BCD6D50FFB5FF974BEEFBA0FB806DE8" blockId="13.[151,1436,653,2010]" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">Color of head, mesonotum and often petiole dull red, gaster very dusky red (nearly black); forelegs often redder than middle and hind legs; pilosity reddish brown, pubescence fine and grayish.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C3683EDBFFB5FF974BEEFB68FD8C6CCB" pageId="13" pageNumber="514" type="discussion">
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<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF974BEEFB68FEA86DB4" bold="true" box="[199,332,1193,1218]" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">Discussion.</emphasis>
<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF974A7AFB6BFE5F6DB7" box="[339,443,1193,1218]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">P. b i c o l o r</emphasis>
is usually easily distinguished from other Nearctic species by its distribution, distinctive two-tone coloring and sparse pilosity. Northern (ND to BC, CAN) populations of
<taxonomicName id="4C7216D3FFB5FF974F03FB0FFB5F6D93" box="[1066,1211,1230,1253]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Polyergus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="514" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mexicanus">
<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF974F03FB0FFB5F6D93" box="[1066,1211,1230,1253]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">P. mexicanus</emphasis>
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may exhibit similar coloration, but
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<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF974A6DFB33FE5E6C7F" box="[324,442,1266,1289]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">mexicanus</emphasis>
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is always more pilose. Bicoloration and reduced pilosity occur commonly in the small workers from young colonies of
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<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF974900FAD7FD7B6C5B" box="[553,671,1302,1325]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">mexicanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, causing possible confusion. Nanitics of
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<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF974FBFFAD7FAE86C5B" box="[1174,1292,1302,1325]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">mexicanus</emphasis>
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are usually recognizable by their slender heads with a rounded vertex and longish appendages, and at least a pair of erect pronotal setae. Large workers of other
<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF97497AFA9CFD236C00" box="[595,711,1373,1398]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">breviceps-</emphasis>
complex species also may appear somewhat bicolored, but only rarely is the bicoloration so neatly defined by a nearly completely dark gaster as in
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<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF974F63FA40FB7E6CEC" box="[1098,1178,1409,1434]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">bicolor</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and these others have more pilosity on the head and mesosoma.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF974BEEFA08FEAA6C94" bold="true" box="[199,334,1481,1506]" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">Etymology.</emphasis>
Wasmann coined this name from the Latin nominal adjective “
<taxonomicName id="4C7216D3FFB5FF974F39FA08FB806C94" box="[1040,1124,1481,1506]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Polyergus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="514" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bicolor">bicolor</taxonomicName>
” meaning two-colored.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF974BEEFA2CFE636F70" bold="true" box="[199,391,1517,1542]" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">Natural history.</emphasis>
This species is apparently endemic to the upper Mississippi Valley, from the western Great Lakes region west to the Dakotas and southern Manitoba. In the past it was found in southern Wisconsin and as far south as Rockford, Illinois, but it has not been seen in this area in recent decades.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BCD6D50FFB5FF974BEEF99BFB506EC3" blockId="13.[151,1436,653,2010]" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">
<taxonomicName id="4C7216D3FFB5FF974BEEF99BFED06F04" box="[199,308,1625,1650]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Polyergus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="514" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bicolor">
<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF974BEEF99BFED06F04" box="[199,308,1625,1650]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">P. bicolor</emphasis>
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normally parasitizes
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<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF97490EF99BFD386F04" box="[551,732,1625,1650]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">F. subaenescens</emphasis>
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, and normally nests with it in rotten stumps or fallen limbs in forests. Wheeler (1910) described raids occurring in early afternoon in a mature mesic forest in northern Illinois that originated from nests in stumps. Two samples examined in this study had
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<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF9748D4F963FB546FCC" box="[1021,1200,1697,1722]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">F. neorufibarbis</emphasis>
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hosts, also a denizen of moist woods, especially tamarack bogs in the eastern part of its range. Through the course of this study I was not able to obtain or study any specimens of
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<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF97494BF928FD576E74" box="[610,691,1769,1794]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">bicolor</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(nor of its host
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<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF97484DF92BFBFC6E74" box="[868,1048,1769,1794]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">F. subaenescens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) collected within about the last 50 years, from
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<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF974A0DF8CCFE916E50" box="[292,373,1805,1830]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">bicolor</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
’s historic range, and I am led to wonder if they have contracted northward due to climatic warming or other causes. Just before submitting this manuscript, in
<date id="FFCC4B90FFB5FF974883F8F0FBFA6E3C" box="[938,1054,1841,1866]" pageId="13" pageNumber="514" value="2013-07">July 2013</date>
, I collected a sample in northern Wisconsin. As in the published records, this sample occupied a rotting log with
<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF974F27F897FB2E6E18" box="[1038,1226,1877,1902]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">
<taxonomicName id="4C7216D3FFB5FF974F27F897FB216E18" box="[1038,1221,1877,1902]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Formica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="514" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subaenescens">F. subaenescens</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
The log was about
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in diameter, with bark beginning to loosen and wood in transition from white to red rot. At first glance, the mixed colony bore a striking resemblance to a young colony of the locally common
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<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF974F6EF85FFB496EC3" box="[1095,1197,1950,1973]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">F. aserva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C3683EDBFFB5FF944BEEF800FC1F6BF2" lastPageId="14" lastPageNumber="515" pageId="13" pageNumber="514" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="8BCD6D50FFB5FF944BEEF800FC1F6BF2" blockId="13.[151,1436,653,2010]" lastBlockId="14.[151,1436,151,645]" lastPageId="14" lastPageNumber="515" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">
<emphasis id="B906B142FFB5FF974BEEF800FDB96EAC" bold="true" box="[199,605,1985,2010]" pageId="13" pageNumber="514">Distribution of studied specimens.</emphasis>
ILLINOIS Winnebago Co. Rockford
<date id="FFCC4B90FFB5FF974F20F803FB9E6EAC" box="[1033,1146,1986,2010]" pageId="13" pageNumber="514" value="2012-07-01">VII-12-01</date>
WS Creighton (LACM); IOWA Back Bone State Park June 19,1940 Wm. Buren (LACM); MICHIGAN Cheboygan Co.
<date id="FFCC4B90FFB6FF944FE5FF59FAD969C6" box="[1228,1341,152,176]" pageId="14" pageNumber="515" value="1947-07-21">VII-21-47</date>
#13
<collectingCountry id="F3652DC0FFB6FF944E5CFF59FA7869C6" box="[1397,1436,152,176]" name="Switzerland" pageId="14" pageNumber="515">CH</collectingCountry>
Kennedy (LACM); MICHIGAN Iron Co. Crystal Falls
<date id="FFCC4B90FFB6FF94482BFF7DFC8269A2" box="[770,870,188,212]" pageId="14" pageNumber="515" value="1937-07-02">VII-2-37</date>
&amp;
<date id="FFCC4B90FFB6FF9448A1FF7DFC3A69A2" box="[904,990,188,212]" pageId="14" pageNumber="515" value="1937-07-21">7/21/37</date>
&amp;
<date id="FFCC4B90FFB6FF944F28FF7DFBB369A2" box="[1025,1111,188,212]" pageId="14" pageNumber="515" value="1938-07-21">7/21/38</date>
(3 coll’s) AC Cole (LACM); MINNESOTA Cook Co. Saganaga Lake, Chik Wauk Lodge
<date id="FFCC4B90FFB6FF94486DFF1EFC20698E" box="[836,964,223,248]" pageId="14" pageNumber="515" value="1943-07-05">5-VII-1943</date>
EV Gregg (FMNH); MINNESOTA Cook Co. Saganaga Lake
<date id="FFCC4B90FFB6FF944A51FEC5FDFD686B" box="[376,537,260,285]" pageId="14" pageNumber="515" value="1946-08-28">Aug. 28, 1946</date>
RE Gregg (FMNH); MINNESOTA Crow wing Co. Jenkins
<date id="FFCC4B90FFB6FF944FEFFEC5FAFA686A" box="[1222,1310,260,284]" pageId="14" pageNumber="515" value="1940-10-07">7-10-40</date>
WF Buren (LACM); MINNESOTA Hubbard Co. Akeley
<date id="FFCC4B90FFB6FF944982FEE9FCAB6836" box="[683,847,296,320]" pageId="14" pageNumber="515" value="1941-08-12">Aug. 12, 1941</date>
Wm. Buren (LACM); MINNESOTA St, Louis Co. Duluth,
<date id="FFCC4B90FFB6FF944BDBFE8DFE886813" box="[242,364,332,357]" pageId="14" pageNumber="515" value="1942-06-21">21.vi.1942</date>
, tamarack spruce bog. R. E. Gregg (FMNH); NORTH DAKOTA Bottineau
<date id="FFCC4B90FFB6FF944FE0FE8DFAD66812" box="[1225,1330,332,356]" pageId="14" pageNumber="515" value="1938-09-17">17-IX-38</date>
#253 Joe Davis (LACM); NORTH DAKOTA Cass Co. Fargo
<date id="FFCC4B90FFB6FF94483AFEB1FC6D68FE" box="[787,905,368,392]" pageId="14" pageNumber="515" value="1927-06-09">9-VI-1927</date>
C. Schoberger (LACM); NORTH DAKOTA Cavalier Co. Storlie Twp.
<date id="FFCC4B90FFB6FF944A96FE55FDF168DB" box="[447,533,404,429]" pageId="14" pageNumber="515" value="1954-07-13">13/7/54</date>
(LACM); NORTH DAKOTA Cavalier Co. Fremont Twp.
<date id="FFCC4B90FFB6FF944F9EFE55FB1A68DB" box="[1207,1278,404,429]" pageId="14" pageNumber="515" value="1954-09-07">7/9/54</date>
#130 &amp; #144 Don Sather (LACM); NORTH DAKOTA Cass Co. 10 Harwood Twp.
<date id="FFCC4B90FFB6FF944898FE76FBF468A6" box="[945,1040,439,464]" pageId="14" pageNumber="515" value="1936-10-10">X-10-36</date>
C. Schonberger (FMNH); NORTH DAKOTA Pembina Co. Pembina
<date id="FFCC4B90FFB6FF944935FE1DFD4E6882" box="[540,682,476,500]" pageId="14" pageNumber="515" value="1949-07-14">VII-14-1949</date>
EL Krause (LACM); NORTH DAKOTA Ramsey Co. Twp.153R 65S. 18
<date id="FFCC4B90FFB6FF944BD0FE3EFE666B6E" box="[249,386,511,536]" pageId="14" pageNumber="515" value="1951-08-01">VIII-1-1951</date>
#878 PB Kannowski (LACM); SOUTH DAKOTA Pennington Co. (Black Hills) Hill City
<date id="FFCC4B90FFB6FF944BBEFDE5FED36B4A" box="[151,311,548,573]" pageId="14" pageNumber="515" value="1933-09-06">Sept. 6, 1933</date>
Creighton (LACM); SOUTH DAKOTA Todd Co. Okreak
<date id="FFCC4B90FFB6FF944F2AFDE5FB756B4A" box="[1027,1169,548,572]" pageId="14" pageNumber="515" value="1941-07-21">21-VII-1941</date>
HT Dalmat (LACM); WISCONSIN Bayfield Co. Chequamegon N.F.
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<geoCoordinate id="EE460B97FFB6FF94480AFD89FC446B29" box="[803,928,584,608]" direction="west" orientation="longitude" pageId="14" pageNumber="515" precision="5" value="-91.2122">91.2122 W</geoCoordinate>
Large, rotten jack pine log.
<date id="FFCC4B90FFB6FF944FF3FD89FA8E6B16" box="[1242,1386,583,608]" pageId="14" pageNumber="515" value="2013-07-19">19 July 2013</date>
J.C. Trager;
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ONTARIO Renfrew Co. Arnprior 1914 Wasmann (CAS).
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