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<paragraph id="5EB8B684C18B139AF7CC5324184273FE" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Type material.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="3F9648F4CED309F2F07C3ADCE39EC5CE" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">
<emphasis id="3F8E67E5E4DB7FAD19633C5CBEF3DDC7" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">
<emphasis id="C71B846CC9EC0E3230161EE943557A14" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Holotype</emphasis>
.
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Malaysia - Sarawak • 1 worker; Gunung Mulu National Park, 4th division;
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(estimated from Google Earth to nearest minute); May-Aug. 1978, P. M. Hammond and J. E. Marshall leg.; CASENT0902782; BM1978-49, BMNH(E) 1015826. BMNH.
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<emphasis id="277F57B1BC653C2D8F93ACB1434C5B49" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Paratype</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
Malaysia - Sabah • 1 worker; Gunung Silam, Lahad Datu;
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,
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(estimated from Google Earth to nearest minute); 630m a.s.l.; 1983; R. Leakey leg; CASENT0842699; UCDC.
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<paragraph id="2264FF66B28A3806341B4F51B33B03A6" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Other material examined.</paragraph>
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-
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S
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leg.; sifted litter (leaf mold, rotten wood), rainforest; CASENT0842640; PSW17199-01. UCDC
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.
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<paragraph id="C2DBA5769C87757735F49FF3B013013A" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Measurements (mm) and indices.</paragraph>
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: N/A
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: HL = 0.42; HW = 0.33; SL = 0.22; PW = 0.27; WL = 0.68; PTL = 0.2; PTW = 0.19; PPTL = 0.19; PPTW = 0.2; CI = 79; SI = 106; PI = 98; PPI = 113.
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(
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= 2): HL = 0.43-0.46; HW = 0.35-0.36; SL = 0.33-0.39; ML = 0.21-0.24; PW = 0.26-0.29; WL = 0.64-0.72; PTL = 0.19-0.21; PTW = 0.2; PPTL = 0.19-0.21; PPTW = 0.2-0.23; CI = 78-80; SI = 97-102; PI = 93-101; PPI = 105-108
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<paragraph id="E3A9561C1B42078028EAC3D504B295B7" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Description.</paragraph>
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Lateral cranial margins converging anteriorly; cranium not bulging towards vertex. Genal angle laterad antennal toruli obtuse. Outline of clypeus campaniform in full-face view, laterally elevated above cranium, posteriorly not elevated above frons; clypeal surface planar; anterior clypeal margin slightly emarginate, posteromedian clypeal margin emarginate; median clypeal ridge present on mesal surface of clypeus, externally visible. Labrum visible in full-face view; anterodorsal apex of labrum armed with three or four dentiform, peg-like chaetae; venter with vestiture of suberect lanose setae. Mandibles elongate relative to head (CI = 79-80), linear, apex curved downward distally; vertical dorsal lamella absent; laterodorsal longitudinal groove present; dorsomedial margin of mandible with single row of ~ 12 dentiform, peg-like chaetae; lateral mandibular face glabrous. Labial palp 1-merous. Anterior tentorial pits faint, situated anterad the toruli, not visible in full-face view. Postgenal ridge complete. Scape long (SL 0.34-0.39 mm), reaching slightly beyond occipital margin when antennae retracted. Flagellum submoniliform; apical flagellomere 3
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longer than broad. Pronotum broader than mesonotum in dorsal view, with lateral margins convex. Mesonotum narrow, with lateral margins parallel in dorsal view. Meso-metapleural suture narrow laterally, broader along dorsal surface; scrobiculate, with transverse ridges larger and more widely spaced along dorsal surface of meso-metapleural suture; posteriorly distinct from metapleural trench. Maximum breadth of metapectal-propodeal complex greater than that of mesonotum in dorsal view, slightly narrowed anteriorly, posterior outline convex in profile view. Bulla large, extending anterior to propodeal spiracle. Propodeum rounded in profile view. Tarsomeres longer than broad. Meso- and metatibial spur formula 0,1p. Petiole sessile. Abdominal segments II and III without tergotergal and sternosternal fusion. Abdominal segment II slightly longer than wide in dorsal view (PI 94-99), with distinct dorsal node, in profile view anterior and posterior faces subequal in height; anterior face of petiolar node linear in profile view. Subpetiolar process present, abdominal sternite II with concavity posterior to subpetiolar process so that margin of abdominal sternite II is sinuate in profile view; fenestra present, elliptical, anteroposteriorly compressed. Lengths of abdominal segments II-III subequal. Abdominal sternite II projecting no further than abdominal sternite III towards venter. Abdominal segment III slightly broader than long in dorsal view (PPI = 105-113), with distinct dorsal node; in profile view, anterior face of dorsal node abruptly vertical and bulging, posterior face gently sloping. Post-petiole with distinct tergosternal suture. Abdominal segments III-IV separated by pronounced constriction, with presclerites of abdominal segment IV distinct; pretergite IV planar in profile view, shorter than presternite IV; presternite IV slightly convex in profile view; cinctus of abdominal segment IV scrobiculate. Anterior margin of abdominal post-tergite IV shallowly emarginate in dorsal view. Outline of postpetiolar node trapezoidal in dorsal view, corners rounded, slightly narrowed anteriorly. Soma concolorous, color castaneous. Vestiture of suberect to erect setae present; length of setae variable.
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, holotype (CASENT0902782; Ziv Lieberman), worker
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profile view
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dorsal view
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full-face view. Scale bars: 0.2 mm (
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); 0.1 mm (
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).
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<paragraph id="430A9F53C18674054E64371A2D9A4397" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="6C00D8F6D02FFA4684B8A8CD8242FB3F" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Named for Alfred Russel Wallace, commonly thought to be the progenitor of the discipline of biogeography and still well-regarded for his study of the biota of the Malay Archipelago, where this ant is native. The specific epithet is masculine, in genitive case.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="0B1F9F9183BEC1E135DEE4E2F59D7534" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Remarks.</paragraph>
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The worker caste of
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<emphasis id="C983C3E82B95A80419189C26C8DE3E7D" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">P. wallacei</emphasis>
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is extremely close to that of
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<emphasis id="20CF6DF986401C6031B9295B95D5B776" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">P. lini</emphasis>
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but differs in overall smaller size and the shallowness of the postpetiolar node, with the posterior declivity of the postpetiolar node being gradual (Fig.
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) rather than abrupt (Fig.
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). PPI tends to be greater in
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<emphasis id="E95BB773BA980FE8BF484D9014C1DEFD" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">P. wallacei</emphasis>
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(x_ = 109) than in
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<emphasis id="5B1469D35C0BE528B8CC5BDD14DF1567" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">P. lini</emphasis>
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(x_ = 100) but cannot be consistently used to discriminate the two. Interestingly, all known gynes of
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<emphasis id="29D684F17230B1F8EA6A7B5AB7D58D18" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">P. wallacei</emphasis>
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are ergatoid (
<bibRefCitation id="F87836E69DE93C465BD082229A7D91CF" DOI="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2013.01.001" author="Billen, J" journalOrPublisher="Arthropod Structure &amp; Development" pageId="0" pageNumber="83" pagination="173 - 183" refId="B10" refString="Billen, J, Bauweleers, E, Hashim, R, Ito, F, 2013. Survey of the exocrine system in Protanilla wallacei (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Arthropod Structure &amp; Development 42 (3): 173 - 183, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2013.01.001" title="Survey of the exocrine system in Protanilla wallacei (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2013.01.001" volume="42" year="2013">Billen et al. 2013</bibRefCitation>
;
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), whereas those of
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<emphasis id="B2E462F2A945B1AEBB6BF91E8991DB96" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">P. lini</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are alate (
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).
</paragraph>
<caption id="8125DFB7124885A6418A6338AB67D2A8" doi="10.3897/zookeys.1189.107506.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/968305" pageId="0" pageNumber="83" start="Figure 5" startId="F5">
<paragraph id="C3505EA640F5386E01AEE6EA6A0BECA8" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">
<emphasis id="3F6BD26114E8109F351124BCF7A18948" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Figure 5.</emphasis>
Worker petiole of
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<emphasis id="258E3F8F7033FA4A6EA6A870C8E40E10" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Protanilla lini</emphasis>
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(
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) and
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<emphasis id="0608A0433C61B8DCE010F184B0C5B6C5" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Protanilla wallacei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov. (
<emphasis id="E1B2624898C8743119E5CD1AF8526AE3" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">b</emphasis>
), profile view. Abbreviation: dpn = petiolar node.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph id="B778F6A3DC92AB059FE54A127050DEB5" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">
<taxonomicName id="8F8AA79732EA2E624E08159998F7DE82" authorityName="Griebenow" authorityYear="2024" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Protanilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Protanilla wallacei" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="83" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="wallacei">
<emphasis id="26522882C997FD2900B1E15E22BC7B3A" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Protanilla wallacei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
appeared as a nomen nudum in
<bibRefCitation id="44FB31BFA11AE8F258459814FEF0B819" DOI="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10306-7" author="Hoelldobler, B" journalOrPublisher="Harvard University Press, Cambridge" pageId="0" pageNumber="83" refId="B49" refString="Hoelldobler, B, Wilson, EO, 1990. The Ants. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10306-7" title="The Ants." url="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10306-7" year="1990">
<normalizedToken id="9D453AEC24A5DF7C92C9089B36128474" originalValue="Hölldobler">Hoelldobler</normalizedToken>
and Wilson (1990)
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, with the name purportedly being under description by Robert W. Taylor based upon material from Sabah. Such a description has not appeared. CASENT0842699 was identified as
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<emphasis id="0AEE7215D35BFACEE2D86A056EA577E2" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">P. wallacei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by Barry Bolton with reference to
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material under description by Taylor, which, based on a paratype label assigned by Taylor, included CASENT0902782.
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described the glandular complement of specimens from peninsular Malaysia that was attributed to this nomen nudum by Taylor, while
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reported on the behavioral observations of specimens from that same series, referring to this species as
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<emphasis id="972B7D01077B3B07AFADC1E078F6A22C" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Protanilla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp.
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<emphasis id="BAB6B4127ADE357E621CC77AC7BF92E5" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Protanilla wallacei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is here made an available name, described based upon worker specimens from Sabah. Judging from
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: fig. 5E), the series referred to in that study and in
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conforms to the diagnosis of
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<emphasis id="25B8302FD07E97B8F0E204F60B279FD7" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">P. wallacei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
here given. The unidentified
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<emphasis id="C5E5645551861E687077AB3F821BCFE7" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Protanilla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
that was the sole representative of the
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in the phylogenomic analyses of
<bibRefCitation id="2330E982C84AA6D8D8C0AF08E4779A3C" DOI="https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12742" author="Branstetter, MG" journalOrPublisher="Methods in Ecology and Evolution" pageId="0" pageNumber="83" pagination="768 - 776" refId="B26" refString="Branstetter, MG, Longino, JT, Ward, PS, Faircloth, BC, 2017. Enriching the ant tree of life: Enhanced UCE bait set for genome-scale phylogenetics of ants and other Hymenoptera. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8: 768 - 776, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12742" title="Enriching the ant tree of life: Enhanced UCE bait set for genome-scale phylogenetics of ants and other Hymenoptera." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12742" volume="8" year="2017">Branstetter et al. (2017)</bibRefCitation>
(CASENT0634862) is here identified as
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<emphasis id="FBC9C3448D922C2E1D5B6A4363DCFF88" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">P. wallacei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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<emphasis id="6B8CEDA616108EB7092B4D400212FA95" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Protanilla wallacei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
shows intraspecific variation in labral chaeta count, which is also observed in putatively conspecific allopatric specimens of
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<emphasis id="A38E445693828C3984880F2FCF8EB45D" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">P. gengma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="C8E5969032AEA0F86E0AC7AA42845FCC" DOI="https://doi.org/10.15560/16.6.1621" author="Aswaj, P" journalOrPublisher="Check List" pageId="0" pageNumber="83" pagination="1621 - 1625" refId="B2" refString="Aswaj, P, Anoop, K, Priyadarsanan, DR, 2020. First record of the rarely collected ant Protanilla gengma Xu, 2012 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Leptanillinae) from the Indian subcontinent. Check List 16 (6): 1621 - 1625, DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/16.6.1621" title="First record of the rarely collected ant Protanilla gengma Xu, 2012 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Leptanillinae) from the Indian subcontinent." url="https://doi.org/10.15560/16.6.1621" volume="16" year="2020">Aswaj et al. 2020</bibRefCitation>
; pers. obs.) and
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<emphasis id="A0CF00D5D3DD567FB8ABBDA16A45F50C" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">P. beijingensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(this study).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="49E5F9CAD2EDD6555844CC6B9913B14A" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">
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<emphasis id="ABB98ADD66A243528BB8F7CFA4B7C3DF" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Protanilla wallacei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="AAC62EF2087E3A2B1D81E5DA854291A7" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">P. lini</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are recovered as sister taxa in phylogenomic inference sampling from across the geographical range of the latter species (pers. obs.).
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<emphasis id="39011AE4B69DAB403B65694FB2829648" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Protanilla lini</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
ranges across Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands, while the
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<emphasis id="8D85750CEC17A661E2C2484DC1DC7DF9" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">P. wallacei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
specimens examined in this study originate in the Sundan region. This allows for the possibility that these putative species are populations from extreme ends of a contiguous swath of metapopulations extending throughout southeast Asia. Further sampling in mainland southeast Asia may reciprocally efface the morphometric distinction between these species, and with the other members of the
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<emphasis id="56E0A8871F0C8E27D233AE4F6E2FCCBA" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Protanilla lini</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species complex.
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