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,
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worker (by monotypy),
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(
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Mayr
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;
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. Combination in
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(
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<emphasis id="B97E5863FF9054101CD08031FE9A3D5B" box="[151,347,774,798]" italics="true" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">Tetraponera andrei</emphasis>
(Mayr)
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<bibRefCitation id="EF9BF980FF9054101DF18030FD493D5B" author="Wheeler, W. M." box="[438,648,774,798]" pageId="45" pageNumber="46" pagination="711 - 1004" refId="ref69501" refString="Wheeler, W. M. (1922 b) Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VIII. A synonymic list of the ants of the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 45, 711 - 1004." type="journal article" year="1922">Wheeler 1922b: 796</bibRefCitation>
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. Combination in
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<emphasis id="B97E5863FF9054101CD08013FE9A3D79" box="[151,347,804,828]" italics="true" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">Tetraponera andrei</emphasis>
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;
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Chomicki
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2015
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: figure S1. Placement in molecular phylogeny.
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(n = 8). HW 1.031.15, HL 1.141.30, LHT 0.740.85, CI 0.890.95, FCI 0.170.19, REL 0.500.56, REL2 0.530.59, SI 0.460.50, SI3 0.810.91, FI 0.450.50, PLI 0.750.86, PWI 0.690.81, LHT/HW 0.710.74, CSC 02, MSC 03.
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. Moderate-sized species, with broad head (CI 0.890.95) and large eyes (REL 0.500.56); posterior margin of eye attaining the level of the lateral ocelli; frontal carinae widely separated, the minimum distance between them almost one-fifth of head width (FCI 0.170.19) and more than one-third of scape length (MFC/ SL 0.350.40); scapes relatively short (SI 0.4650), less than eye length (SI3 0.810.91); anterior clypeal margin almost straight (slightly emarginate medially) and weakly crenulate (
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); profemur robust (FI 0.450.50); mesonotum bounded posteriorly by a well marked, longitudinally rugulose impression; metanotal plate lacking; dorsal face of propodeum flattened, laterally submarginate, longer than declivitous face and rounding insensibly into the latter; petiole relatively short and high (see PLI and PWI values), dorsolaterally marginate, and with an anteroventral tooth; in profile, petiolar node with steep anterodorsal and posterodorsal faces, rounding insensibly into one another (
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); postpetiole broader than long. Head and mesosoma densely punctulate-coriarious, matte. Standing pilosity very sparse (CSC 02, MSC 03), absent from petiole and postpetiole, the few erect setae relatively long, and distinct from the inconspicuous, short pubescence. Dark brownish-black, the mandibles, antennae, tibiae and tarsi lighter.
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<emphasis id="B97E5863FF9054101C80869CFE893B81" bold="true" box="[199,328,1450,1476]" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">Comments</emphasis>
. Within the
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group this species is easily recognized by its small worker size (HW 1.031.15), large eyes, short and strongly marginate petiole (PL/HW 0.500.55), dark color, and sparse standing pilosity. Workers of the most closely similar species,
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, are larger (worker HW 1.401.54), have more closely adjacent frontal carinae (FCI 0.140.16), lack a rugulose transverse impression at the posterior margin of the mesonotum, and have standing pilosity on the petiole and postpetiole (24 and 26 standing hairs, respectively).
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.
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is an East African species of rather limited distribution, being known only from
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,
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. Workers have been collected foraging on foliage and tree trunks, in semi-dry habitats. One nest collection is known, from a dead twig (BLF37780).
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,
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,
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).
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:
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(c.u.);
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:
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:
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,
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,
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(
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;
<emphasis id="B97E5863FF9054101FA385D9FBD4394C" box="[996,1045,1775,1801]" italics="true" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">et al</emphasis>
.)
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:
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(
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:
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,
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(
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(
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:
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(
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)
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:
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, near
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(
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.
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</treatment>
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