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[[ Genus
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<taxonomicName id="8103456EC27A2D3D9CAFF7D300848689" ID-CoL="5WNS" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:24785" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista Roger" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Myrmelachista</taxonomicName>
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]]
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The above are all the species and subspecies known from Caribbean islands. My knowledge of the Caribbean fauna is limited, but I have examined 20 collections of
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<taxonomicName id="D0CD50FB16FB6632A4B75A0869C77AE8" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32322" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista ramulorum Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ramulorum">ramulorum</taxonomicName>
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from Puerto Rico, St. Croix, USA (Florida, possibly introduced and then extirpated, see Deyrup 2003), Santo Domingo, St. Thomas, and the Dominican Republic; three collections of
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<taxonomicName id="1B0938B043864E67E0876A4F2DC16EAF" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32326" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista rogeri André" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rogeri">rogeri</taxonomicName>
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from Cuba; syntypes of
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<taxonomicName id="5FF664AF7C33C50E4AF784D9072E1675" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:150616" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista rogeri manni Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="variety" species="rogeri" variety="manni">rogeri manni</taxonomicName>
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from Cuba, and syntypes of
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<taxonomicName id="EAD045F6153702BD93470C2B0E135C11" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:150618" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista rogeri rubriceps Mann" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="variety" species="rogeri" variety="rubriceps">rogeri rubriceps</taxonomicName>
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from Cuba. All appear to be similar to
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<taxonomicName id="F3EE9BB3D7D7FFAD6E7F68998CAF719F" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32321" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista plebecula Menozzi" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="plebecula">plebecula</taxonomicName>
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. All are bicolored or various shades of red brown. Unlike
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<taxonomicName id="0B3247CC8E6A5D4B1E2AAE79DAFCC4D0" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32321" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista plebecula Menozzi" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="plebecula">plebecula</taxonomicName>
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, all have long erect setae projecting from the sides of the head (workers and queens). Eight queens of
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<taxonomicName id="335898EAEB8F1990607C664B55CFB085" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32322" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista ramulorum Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ramulorum">ramulorum</taxonomicName>
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are very small with very narrow, rectangular heads. The largest of these have the narrowest heads, with HW around 0.70mm and CI around 74, a combination not found in any Costa Rican species except for the one small longiceps-like queen described under
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<taxonomicName id="AF26730FDD80051AEAD2FFF1A29E05AE" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:195359" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista longiceps Longino" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="longiceps">longiceps</taxonomicName>
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. Unlike
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<taxonomicName id="C188FFA89E87350CCF9EB9E6B0EEC466" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32322" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista ramulorum Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ramulorum">ramulorum</taxonomicName>
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, the longiceps-like queen lacks erect setae on the sides of the head. The smallest
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<taxonomicName id="E185CE2913A1E9AF70B305792A5C9E5A" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32322" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista ramulorum Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ramulorum">ramulorum</taxonomicName>
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queens and the queens of
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<taxonomicName id="23238E274A35A2DADEF6B10D42511B71" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32326" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista rogeri André" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rogeri">rogeri</taxonomicName>
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are in the same size range as
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<taxonomicName id="D629CBFE25FE5B1CC874615B165979B9" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32321" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista plebecula Menozzi" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="plebecula">plebecula</taxonomicName>
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queens, but with relatively narrow heads. All measured queens of
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have CI 85 or greater. The highest CI among the
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<taxonomicName id="741047E5B8159313984F1B74F9FDC73E" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32322" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista ramulorum Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ramulorum">ramulorum</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName id="8494A76A3872D4B468C1A7FEB75A9261" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32326" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista rogeri André" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rogeri">rogeri</taxonomicName>
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queens is 82.
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<taxonomicName id="988362932EED2EF7D9796A65D174E538" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32313" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista kraatzii Roger" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kraatzii">Myrmelachista kraatzii</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName id="9BFEF1179A265C4C9B32159949F99BBC" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32288" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista ambigua Forel" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ambigua">ambigua</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName id="932EC0128D5E1AEFF67DFDCA6431DC2A" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32326" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista rogeri André" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rogeri">rogeri</taxonomicName>
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, and
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<taxonomicName id="CE407C3C0B57B36F3A99B6C755D2D1CF" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32322" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista ramulorum Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ramulorum">ramulorum</taxonomicName>
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are all older names than
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<taxonomicName id="5B4BA6B099526DF7C2A349651073EB14" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32321" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista plebecula Menozzi" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="plebecula">plebecula</taxonomicName>
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, and if
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<taxonomicName id="F7151D32DB3F2F5CF230C8E394A8F3CD" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32321" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista plebecula Menozzi" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="plebecula">plebecula</taxonomicName>
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proves to be an allopatric variant of a widespread polytypic Caribbean species it will no doubt be a synonym of one of these older names.
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<paragraph id="FDC07EF5CA04B6F3CA4E51577FC2A4CE" pageNumber="50">
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It is not clear that
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and
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<taxonomicName id="C443348E7F443AC07C64774EC4731E54" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32322" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista ramulorum Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ramulorum">ramulorum</taxonomicName>
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are distinct. When two Cuban
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<taxonomicName id="A19F1C4D4B042530521F9D2F2CF72374" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32326" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista rogeri André" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rogeri">rogeri</taxonomicName>
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queens I have measured are compared to eight
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<taxonomicName id="9577F84801B9A347ACA7C8B6602DAE1A" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32322" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista ramulorum Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ramulorum">ramulorum</taxonomicName>
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queens from other islands, they are at the small end of a continuum of measurements.
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<taxonomicName id="0E15E2FACC259F8FEF204DEFB366BC60" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32288" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista ambigua Forel" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ambigua">Myrmelachista ambigua</taxonomicName>
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was described from a single worker from St. Vincent. Given the relative uniformity of workers, the published description and even examination of the type will be of little use. Queen and male-associated collections of
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from St. Vincent will be needed to compare with material from other parts of the Caribbean. Wheeler (1908) considered the worker of
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close to
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<taxonomicName id="4C0EBA5EB6D7CF3B4CE38E0B765DAABF" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32288" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista ambigua Forel" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ambigua">ambigua</taxonomicName>
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.
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<paragraph id="9C971192D4EA8078CF70DE33D854A741" pageNumber="50">
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<taxonomicName id="0F7F16918434977E8B382378BC5D0921" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32305" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista gagates Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gagates">Myrmelachista gagates</taxonomicName>
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, from Haiti, was described as being close to
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but solid black.
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<paragraph id="C850C5D56E7B85FBDACB3B8A79F749E9" pageNumber="50">
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It will be important to examine multiple collections of
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from Cuba, to ascertain whether there are multiple sympatric species there. It is unknown whether
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and the forms of
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<taxonomicName id="8F555F3963430407185380FB35750554" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32326" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista rogeri André" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rogeri">rogeri</taxonomicName>
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are distinct or represent one variable species.
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<taxonomicName id="46C65905ABEFA5E798F8D9E932713A64" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32313" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista kraatzii Roger" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kraatzii">Myrmelachista kraatzii</taxonomicName>
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from Cuba and
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<taxonomicName id="1E52AF73CF29F5A791A0C862BB34C042" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32318" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista nigella (Roger)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nigella">M. nigella</taxonomicName>
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from Venezuela are the two oldest names in the genus,
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<taxonomicName id="A656DB71B2ACC17DB173E60ACD03CD55" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32313" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista kraatzii Roger" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kraatzii">kraatzii</taxonomicName>
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being a 9-segmented form and
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<taxonomicName id="88F23F6744A70B572EDABF0DB3401266" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32318" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista nigella (Roger)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nigella">nigella</taxonomicName>
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a 10-segmented form. Thus
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<taxonomicName id="9F63A1D1EDF765C0E3B54CDCDB9AB7CC" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32313" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista kraatzii Roger" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kraatzii">kraatzii</taxonomicName>
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would have priority among all the 9-segmented forms.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="5D49CA61548F979017EADFF15AE535D5" pageNumber="50">
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One collection from El Yunque, Puerto Rico, is indistinguishable firom
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<taxonomicName id="D2CFEAA7BEFDBF565B6441979391617B" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:195359" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista longiceps Longino" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="longiceps">M. longiceps</taxonomicName>
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. It is a collection of workers and alate queens, collected by Juan Torres. I am reluctant to identify it as
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<taxonomicName id="C6B2BB38AA196F8D106E16B6AECF4654" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:195359" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista longiceps Longino" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="longiceps">longiceps</taxonomicName>
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until more Puerto Rican material is obtained, but there is a large size gap between the queen of this El Yunque collection and the various queens of
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<taxonomicName id="A933765E61D57C90876FCCA1D949A6CB" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:32322" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmelachista" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Myrmelachista ramulorum Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ramulorum">ramulorum</taxonomicName>
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from elsewhere in Puerto Rico.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="60EC1948AE2E7559CD1A98EB74913BA1" pageNumber="50">From these observations it is clear that more collections are needed from the Caribbean to better understand species boundaries in this group.</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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