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1 wingless female, apparent ergatoid queen, same locality, date, coastal scrub forest edge, singleton forager,
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AW1834 (
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(n = 5). HW 0.56–0.61, HL 0.74–0.81, LHT 0.48–0.51, CI 0.73–0.76, FCI 0.11–0.12, REL 0.30–0.32, REL2 0.41–0.42, SI 0.56–0.62, SI3 1.36–1.49, FI 0.42–0.45, PLI 0.56–0.61, PWI 0.46–0.48, LHT/ HW 0.84–0.87, CSC 2, MSC 0.
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. Similar in size and form to
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and
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0.56–0.61) with relatively elongate head, closely contiguous frontal carinae (
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0.11–0.12), a slender petiole (
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0.56–0.61), and sparse standing pilosity (
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2, MSC 0). Differing from the other two species as follows: head broader, on average (
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0.73–0.76), and scape short (
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0.56–0.62); petiole slightly more robust, i.e., shorter and wider, such that PWI 0.46–0.48, PL/HW 0.72–0.77, and FW/PL 0.40–0.45. Body medium-brown in color, the mesonotum, anterior portion of head, and antennae variably lighter (
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<figureCitation id="133198F4FFA254221F358115FC043C78" box="[882,965,547,573]" captionStart="FIGURES 10–12" captionStartId="15.[151,264,1717,1741]" captionTargetBox="[152,1436,184,1692]" captionTargetId="figure-17@15.[151,1436,181,1693]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="FIGURES 10–12. Tetraponera allaborans group, workers, full-face (dorsal) view of head (a) and lateral profile of body (b). 10, T. furtiva, holotype, South Africa (CASENT0843646); 11, T. gerdae, Kenya (CASENT0842369); 12, T. liengmei, South Africa (CASENT0794351). Images from AntWeb (www.antweb.org); photographers Phil Ward (10), Zachary Griebenow (11), Matthew Prebus (12)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6245624" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6245624/files/figure.png" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">Fig. 10</figureCitation>
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).
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="C310D7FAFFA254221C808170FACD3DE0" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" type="discussion">
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<paragraph id="8BB58471FFA254221C808170FACD3DE0" blockId="31.[151,1437,150,1113]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">
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<emphasis id="B97E5863FFA254221C808170FE893C25" bold="true" box="[199,328,582,608]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">Comments</emphasis>
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. At first glance
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<taxonomicName id="4C0AFFF2FFA254221DB98171FD1B3C24" authorityName="Ward" authorityYear="2022" box="[510,730,583,609]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Tetraponera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="furtiva">
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<emphasis id="B97E5863FFA254221DB98171FD1B3C24" box="[510,730,583,609]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">Tetraponera furtiva</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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appears to be a dusky version of
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<taxonomicName id="4C0AFFF2FFA2542218138171FB7D3C25" baseAuthorityName="Forel" baseAuthorityYear="1911" box="[1108,1212,583,608]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Tetraponera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="emeryi">
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<emphasis id="B97E5863FFA2542218138171FB7D3C25" box="[1108,1212,583,608]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">T. emeryi</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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, being intermediate in coloration between that species and
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<taxonomicName id="4C0AFFF2FFA254221E09815DFD0B3CC0" baseAuthorityName="Emery" baseAuthorityYear="1886" box="[590,714,619,645]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Tetraponera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="clypeata">
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<emphasis id="B97E5863FFA254221E09815DFD0B3CC0" box="[590,714,619,645]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">T. clypeata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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. This suggests the possibility that it represents a hybrid population derived from those two species: it occurs within the range of
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<taxonomicName id="4C0AFFF2FFA254221F3681B9FC193CED" baseAuthorityName="Forel" baseAuthorityYear="1911" box="[881,984,655,680]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Tetraponera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="emeryi">
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<emphasis id="B97E5863FFA254221F3681B9FC193CED" box="[881,984,655,680]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">T. emeryi</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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and just beyond the known eastern limit of
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<taxonomicName id="4C0AFFF2FFA254221CF08185FEF23C88" baseAuthorityName="Emery" baseAuthorityYear="1886" box="[183,307,691,717]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Tetraponera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="clypeata">
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<emphasis id="B97E5863FFA254221CF08185FEF23C88" box="[183,307,691,717]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">T. clypeata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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, where conceivably reproductive isolating mechanisms are weaker. Nevertheless
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<taxonomicName id="4C0AFFF2FFA2542218958185FAFB3C88" authorityName="Ward" authorityYear="2022" box="[1234,1338,691,717]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Tetraponera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="furtiva">
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<emphasis id="B97E5863FFA2542218958185FAFB3C88" box="[1234,1338,691,717]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">T. furtiva</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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workers do have some distinctive features of their own, most notably shorter scapes than
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<taxonomicName id="4C0AFFF2FFA25422187A81E1FB673CB5" baseAuthorityName="Forel" baseAuthorityYear="1911" box="[1085,1190,727,752]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Tetraponera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="emeryi">
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<emphasis id="B97E5863FFA25422187A81E1FB673CB5" box="[1085,1190,727,752]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">T. emeryi</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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||
(SI 0.56–0.62 versus
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<taxonomicName id="4C0AFFF2FFA254221D6A81CDFE573D51" baseAuthorityName="Forel" baseAuthorityYear="1911" box="[301,406,763,788]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Tetraponera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="emeryi">
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<emphasis id="B97E5863FFA254221D6A81CDFE573D51" box="[301,406,763,788]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">T. emeryi</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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||
) and a shorter, broader petiole than both
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C0AFFF2FFA254221F2981CDFC283D50" baseAuthorityName="Emery" baseAuthorityYear="1886" box="[878,1001,763,789]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Tetraponera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="clypeata">
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||
<emphasis id="B97E5863FFA254221F2981CDFC283D50" box="[878,1001,763,789]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">T. clypeata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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||
and
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||
<taxonomicName id="4C0AFFF2FFA25422186581CDFB4A3D51" baseAuthorityName="Forel" baseAuthorityYear="1911" box="[1058,1163,763,788]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Tetraponera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="emeryi">
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<emphasis id="B97E5863FFA25422186581CDFB4A3D51" box="[1058,1163,763,788]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">T. emeryi</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
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||
(PL/HW 0.72–0.77 and FW/PL 0.40–0.45, versus PL/HW 0.79–0.94 and FW/PL
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the other two species). The wingless female (AW1834), here interpreted as an ergatoid queen, is larger than the
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C0AFFF2FFA254221FC98075FC343D18" authorityName="Ward" authorityYear="2022" box="[910,1013,835,861]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Tetraponera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="furtiva">
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<emphasis id="B97E5863FFA254221FC98075FC343D18" box="[910,1013,835,861]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">T. furtiva</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
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||
workers (HW 0.67), with well developed ocelli (absent in the workers), a more robust mesosoma with one pair of standing hairs on the posterior margin of the pronotum (standing pilosity absent from the mesosoma dorsum in workers), and a larger gaster.
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||
</paragraph>
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||
</subSubSection>
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||
<subSubSection id="C310D7FAFFA254221C808098FE313A70" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" type="distribution">
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<paragraph id="8BB58471FFA254221C808098FE313A70" blockId="31.[151,1437,150,1113]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">
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||
<emphasis id="B97E5863FFA254221C808098FE2F3D8D" bold="true" box="[199,494,942,969]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">Distribution and biology</emphasis>
|
||
. This species is known only from two collections taken at the same site in
|
||
<collectingRegion id="49CE4A93FFA25422190F8099FEFE3DA8" country="South Africa" name="Eastern Cape" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">Eastern Cape Province</collectingRegion>
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||
,
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||
<collectingCountry id="F31DC4E1FFA254221D0C80E5FE1C3DA8" box="[331,477,979,1005]" name="South Africa" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">South Africa</collectingCountry>
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, with precise coordinates of
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<geoCoordinate id="EE3EE2B6FFA254221FE880E5FBF53DA8" box="[943,1076,979,1005]" degrees="27.46790" direction="east" orientation="longitude" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" precision="1" value="27.4679">27.46790°E</geoCoordinate>
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||
(A. L. Wild, pers. comm.). The
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||
<typeStatus id="54B13AD3FFA254221CD080C1FF063A54" box="[151,199,1015,1041]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">type</typeStatus>
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||
workers were collected from a nest or nest fragment in an acacia (
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||
<taxonomicName id="4C0AFFF2FFA254221FE980C1FBD73A54" box="[942,1046,1015,1041]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Vachellia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
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<emphasis id="B97E5863FFA254221FE980C1FBD73A54" box="[942,1046,1015,1041]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">Vachellia</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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||
) thorn, at the edge of low, scrubby coastal forest along an estuary.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="C310D7FAFFA254221C808708FCEE3A1C" box="[199,815,1086,1113]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" type="materials_examined">
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<paragraph id="8BB58471FFA254221C808708FCEE3A1C" blockId="31.[151,1437,150,1113]" box="[199,815,1086,1113]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">
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||
<emphasis id="B97E5863FFA254221C808708FE703A1D" bold="true" box="[199,433,1086,1112]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">Material examined.</emphasis>
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||
Known only from the
|
||
<typeStatus id="54B13AD3FFA254221EF78709FD213A1C" box="[688,736,1087,1113]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">type</typeStatus>
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||
series.
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||
</paragraph>
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||
</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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