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<mods:title>Systematics of the Monomorium rothsteini Forel species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a problematic ant group in Australia</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Sparks, Kathryn S.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Austin, Andrew D.</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, and School of Earth &amp; Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, 5005, Australia</mods:affiliation>
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<taxonomicName authority="Sparks" authorityName="Sparks" box="[151,509,1231,1258]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Monomorium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="26" pageNumber="515" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pilbara" status="NEW SPECIES">
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Sparks
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,
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(
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Fig.
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ac,
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e)
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<paragraph blockId="26.[151,1436,1338,2011]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515">
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2009-10-19" collectionCode="WAM" collectorName="K. S. Sparks &amp; C. Petit" latitude="-23.3657" location="Western Australia" longLatPrecision="7" longitude="119.7839" pageId="26" pageNumber="515" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-worker="1" stateProvince="Western Australia" typeStatus="holotype">
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.
</emphasis>
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,
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S Newman
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-
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,
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Oct
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</collectingDate>
</date>
,
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,
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, KSS
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(deposited in
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)
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<materialsCitation pageId="26" pageNumber="515">
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.
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Western
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.
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workers
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,
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ergatoids,
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workers
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, Tom Price Caravan Park, -
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,
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,
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Oct
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</date>
, K.S. Sparks, C. Petit, KSS
<number box="[913,955,1446,1471]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515" value="168.0">168</number>
;
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<number box="[968,994,1447,1471]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515" value="11.0">11</number>
w, same locality and collectors,
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<number box="[1359,1387,1447,1471]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515" value="17.0">17</number>
Oct
<number box="[151,210,1483,1507]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515" value="2009.0">2009</number>
</date>
, KSS
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;
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<number box="[336,363,1483,1507]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515" value="11.0">11</number>
workers
</specimenCount>
, KSS
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;
</materialsCitation>
<materialsCitation pageId="26" pageNumber="515">
<specimenCount box="[594,726,1482,1507]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515" type="worker">
<number box="[594,622,1483,1507]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515" value="24.0">24</number>
workers
</specimenCount>
,
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N Tom Price, -
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,
<number box="[1101,1208,1482,1507]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515" value="117.7457">117.7457</number>
,
<date box="[1223,1372,1483,1507]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515" value="2009-10-17">
<number box="[1223,1251,1483,1507]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515" value="17.0">17</number>
Oct
<number box="[1313,1372,1483,1507]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515" value="2009.0">2009</number>
</date>
, K.S. Sparks, C. Petit, KSS
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(deposited in
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,
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,
<collectionCode LSID="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34981" box="[743,817,1519,1543]" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34981" name="Western Australian Museum" pageId="26" pageNumber="515">WAM</collectionCode>
).
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</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,321,1554,1579]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
A medium sized, amber orange species with a concave clypeus and a median projection on the anteroventral clypeal margin. Transverse and longitudinal strigae are absent from the dorsal surface of the propodeum, and the petiole node is narrow.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,550,1662,1687]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515">
Worker measurements (n=
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).
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HW
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, HL
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, EL
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, PMH
<number box="[1147,1262,1663,1687]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515" value="0.32999999999999996" valueMax="0.37" valueMin="0.29">0.290.37</number>
,
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<number box="[1317,1432,1662,1687]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515" value="0.27" valueMax="0.29" valueMin="0.25">0.250.29</number>
, PNH
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, LHW
<number box="[436,551,1698,1723]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515" value="0.51" valueMax="0.57" valueMin="0.45">0.450.57</number>
, EW
<number box="[630,744,1699,1723]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515" value="0.11499999999999999" valueMax="0.12" valueMin="0.11">0.110.12</number>
, PML
<number box="[837,951,1698,1723]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515" value="0.54" valueMax="0.59" valueMin="0.49">0.490.59</number>
, ML
<number box="[1029,1144,1699,1723]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515" value="0.905" valueMax="0.99" valueMin="0.82">0.820.99</number>
, PL
<number box="[1211,1327,1698,1723]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515" value="0.41000000000000003" valueMax="0.45" valueMin="0.37">0.370.45</number>
, PNWdv
<number box="[151,266,1735,1759]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515" value="0.20500000000000002" valueMax="0.23" valueMin="0.18">0.180.23</number>
.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,445,1770,1795]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515">Worker Description.</emphasis>
Medium sized species with a medium sized, rectangular head; posterior cephalic margin very broadly v shaped to shallowly concave. Anterodorsal margin of the clypeus concave with frontolateral carinae extending beyond anteroventral clypeal margin but not forming acute angles and without preapical teeth, most specimens with frontolateral carinae with a wavy margin. Anteroventral margin of the clypeus with a small median projection. Frons with strigae extending well above antennal lobes in some specimens or restricted to antennal lobes and area in between; coarse lateral cephalic strigae reach anterior eye margin. Eyes medium, EW
<number box="[1304,1416,1951,1975]" pageId="26" pageNumber="515" value="0.21500000000000002" valueMax="0.23" valueMin="0.2">0.200.23</number>
x LHW,
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ommatidia in longest vertical axis,
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longest horizontal axis.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,275,1912,1934]" pageId="27" pageNumber="516">FIGURE 7.</emphasis>
Workers of the
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<taxonomicName box="[438,568,1912,1934]" pageId="27" pageNumber="516" rank="species" species="rothsteini">
<emphasis box="[438,568,1912,1934]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="516">
M.
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</emphasis>
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(Forel)
</taxonomicName>
species complex in lateral, head and dorsal view of the mesosoma. Fig. 7ac:
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<emphasis box="[151,259,1943,1965]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="516">
M.
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</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, holotype (4km S Newman, WA, KSS188), df:
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<emphasis box="[751,880,1943,1965]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="516">
M.
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</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, (Alice River, QLD, ES38), gi:
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<emphasis box="[1214,1342,1943,1965]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="516">
M.
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</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
paratype (Niagara Dam, WA, KSS218), jl:
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<emphasis box="[502,621,1975,1996]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="516">
M.
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</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, holotype (
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Falls, WA, TERC11), mo:
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<emphasis box="[1107,1259,1973,1996]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="516">
M.
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</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, (160km E Mala, SA, KSS116). Scale bars are 0.5 mm for all views.
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Mesonotum strigulate on lateral curvature, in metanotal groove and extending onto posterior mesonotum, smooth medially; posterior mesonotum appears raised with a faint horseshoe shaped margin in some specimens. Mesopleuron alveolate, without strigae. Propodeum in lateral view with dorsolateral angles clearly forming an obtuse angle, sculpture laterally alveolate with a few strigae extending over metapleural gland bulla only; anterodorsal transverse carina present; transverse and longitudinal strigae absent. Petiole node narrow, width when viewed from above less than
<date box="[488,525,332,356]" pageId="28" pageNumber="517">
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x
</date>
eye width; oval shaped in posterior view, in lateral view sub parallel sided and broadly rounded from higher anterior margin to lower posterior margin. Petiole node finely reticulate laterally and basally but not extending more than half way to dorsal surface, postpetiole faintly reticulate laterally and along posterobasal margin. T
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with fine reticulate sculpture over anterior quarter only.
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<paragraph blockId="28.[151,1437,151,896]" pageId="28" pageNumber="517">Head and mesosoma light to dark amber orange, legs orange brown, petiole and postpetiole infuscated on dorsal half, metasoma dark brown, hairs dull yellow.</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="28.[151,1437,151,896]" pageId="28" pageNumber="517">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,352,548,573]" pageId="28" pageNumber="517">Distribution.</emphasis>
This species is known only from the
<taxonomicName box="[771,850,548,573]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Monomorium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="28" pageNumber="526" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pilbara">Pilbara</taxonomicName>
region of Western
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. Its range overlaps with
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<emphasis box="[151,320,584,608]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="517">M. subapterum</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis box="[375,542,584,608]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="517">M. tenebrosum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<subSubSection pageId="28" pageNumber="517" type="etymology">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,334,620,645]" pageId="28" pageNumber="517">Etymology.</emphasis>
The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the region in Western
<collectingCountry box="[1208,1310,620,645]" name="Australia" pageId="28" pageNumber="517">Australia</collectingCountry>
where this species has been collected.
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<subSubSection pageId="28" pageNumber="517" type="discussion">
<paragraph blockId="28.[151,1437,151,896]" pageId="28" pageNumber="517">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,315,692,717]" pageId="28" pageNumber="517">Remarks.</emphasis>
This species has so far only been found in the
<taxonomicName box="[836,915,692,717]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Monomorium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="28" pageNumber="526" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pilbara">Pilbara</taxonomicName>
region of Western
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. Several ergatoidlike females have been collected foraging with workers outside a nest at Tom Price. These specimens are somewhat larger, with a well-defined promesonotal suture, scutellum and coarser sculpture but otherwise closely resemble the workers.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,396,836,861]" pageId="28" pageNumber="517">
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sequences
</emphasis>
. Genbank accession numbers for this species are
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KC
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KC
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and
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KC
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</accessionNumber>
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KC
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.
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