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, pl. 4, fig. 28 (s.w.)
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. Indomalaya.
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Colour yellow to yellow-brown; promesonotal process absent; head rectangular in full-face view, with broadly V-shaped posterior emargination; frontal carinae distinctly short; scrobe feebly developed; submedian hypostomal teeth large, median process present; promesonotum strongly convex in profile; propodeal spines short-triangular; body strongly sculptured with abundant setae scattered over entire body surface.
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<emphasis id="B904903FFFA9FF9EFF47F972AC22F96B" bold="true" box="[160,275,1753,1776]" pageId="50" pageNumber="1755">Figure 31.</emphasis>
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. Major worker. (A) Body in profile. (B) Head in full-face view, ANTWEB1041900, AntWeb.org (Michele Esposito). (C) Distribution map.
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<emphasis id="B904903FFFA8FF9FFF47F972AC36F96B" bold="true" box="[160,263,1753,1776]" pageId="51" pageNumber="1756">Figure 32.</emphasis>
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. Minor worker. (A) Body in profile. (B) Body in dorsal view. (C) Head in fullface view, ANTWEB1041897, AntWeb.org (Michele Esposito).
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<emphasis id="B904903FFFAFFF98FF47F971AC22F96A" bold="true" box="[160,275,1754,1777]" pageId="52" pageNumber="1757">Figure 33.</emphasis>
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. Minor worker. (A) Body in profile. (B) Head in full-face view, ANTWEB1041898, AntWeb.org (Michele Esposito). (C) Distribution map.
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, but has been introduced in many regions of the world by human commerce (
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). On the Arabian Peninsula, it is known from the
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The nesting habits of
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are remarkably diverse, including in soil and leaf litter, under stones, among roots, in rotten logs, directly in the ground, in lower vegetation, and under the bark of live trees (
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). The species thrives in a broad range of habitats including date palm plantations, public gardens, parks, mangrove and coastal scrub, open lands, degraded dry forest, and rainforest (
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