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<paragraph id="749BD5737941C725630F1415FDEBFA46" pageId="44" pageNumber="160" type="mainText">(Fig. 8)</paragraph>
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2.0 mi. S Honduran border,Hwy
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, ex
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(
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, one dealate
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, same data as holotype (
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andparatype worker measurements. - HL 1.54, 1.44,
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1.54, 1.47, MFC 0.071, 0.056,
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0.93, 0.86, PL 0.88, 0.78, PH 0.57, 0.47, Cl 1.00, 1.02, OI 0.52, 0.52, REL 0.61, 0.59, REL2 0.61, 0.58, OOI -0.01, -0.01, VI 0.73, 0.71, FCI 0.046,0.038, SI 0.47,0.47, FI 0.44,0.39, PDI 1.21, 1.12,
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0.067, 0.061, NI 0.62, 0.64, PLI 0.64, 0.60, PWI 0.57, 0.53, PPWI 1.40, 1.25.
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queen measurements. - HL 1.79,
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Worker diagnosis. - With the traits of the
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P.
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group (see couplet 6 of key) and the following more specific features. Head as broad as long; anterior margin of median clypeal lobe slightly convex, rounded laterally; pronotum with blunt dorsolateral margination; mesonotum more steeply inclined than basal face of propodeum; petiole of moderate length, high (
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0.60-0.64), with a distinct anterior peduncle but without a well developed anteroventral tooth (Figs. 8, 53), and lacking sharp dorsolateral margination; postpetiole notably broader than long. Mandibles weakly striolate, sublucid, becoming shagreened basally; head and mesosoma densely but finely punctulate-coriarious to coriarious-imbricate, subopaque; petiole, postpetiole, and gaster with fine piligerous punctures, obscured from view by the associated pubescence. Standing pilosity only moderately dense but with some apparent loss due to abrasion of the
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specimens; hairs mostly black, not silvery-white, present on the head, mesosoma dorsum, petiole, and postpetiole; at least some moderately long (
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) hairs on the propodeum and petiole; one or two short hairs present on the outer faces of the meso- and meta-tibiae, the others possibly worn off; fine appressed golden pubescence present on most of the body. Head and mesosoma black, gaster dark brown, petiole and postpetiole orange; appendages brown, with orange flecking on the legs.
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Taxonomic comments. This species is known only from the
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. It is readily distinguished from all other acacia-associated species in the
<taxonomicName id="89D4E5DE3FA3280CAE31EEA41A29C690" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pseudomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="45" pageNumber="161" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gracilis">P. gracilis</taxonomicName>
group by the combination of broad head (see Cl values), robust petiole (
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0.60-0.64), and black pilosity.
<taxonomicName id="0D80C6215FED629F989FF494DEFF9EB0" authorityName="Ward" authorityYear="1993" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pseudomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="45" pageNumber="161" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="reconditus">P. reconditus</taxonomicName>
is similar to an undescribed
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species collected from
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in northern Peru (P. sp. PSW-35) but the latter has a shorter petiole, more extensive silvery-white pilosity and pubescence, and is all black in color.
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Biology. - The
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collection from
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<taxonomicName id="62607DCCB8D896EA30FE70792622D93D" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Acacia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="45" pageNumber="161" phylum="Magnoliopsida" rank="species" species="collinsii">Acacia collinsii</taxonomicName>
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is the only record. A single worker of
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occurred in the same alcohol vial as the workers and queen of
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. It remains to be confirmed that
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is confined to nesting in swollen-thom acacias.
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