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, Wang Nam Khiao District, Sakaerat
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Environmental Research Station, DEF (dry evergreen forest)
<date box="[944,1077,700,724]" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" value="2021-03-22">22.III 2021</date>
, W.
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Jaitrong leg., TH21-WJT-002.
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(THNHM-I-24841 to
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THNHM-I-24889,
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) and a queen (THNHM-I-24890,
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), same data as holotype.
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NON-TYPE
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EXAMINED. Two workers (THNHM-I-24891,
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NE
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District, Huai Nam Khem, plantation,
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22.
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2018
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, W. Jaitrong leg.;
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(THNHM-I-24892,
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),
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E
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:
<collectingRegion box="[721,986,915,939]" country="Thailand" name="Chachoengsao" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Chachoengsao Province</collectingRegion>
, Tha Takiap
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District,
<date box="[325,462,945,969]" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" value="2002-12-28">28.XII 2002</date>
, W. Jaitrong leg.;
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<specimenCount box="[675,785,945,969]" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" type="worker">6 workers</specimenCount>
(THNHM-I-24893,
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,
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same locality and collector,
<date box="[527,669,976,1000]" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" value="2003-08-22">22.VIII 2003</date>
, WJT03-TH-252.
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DESCRIPTION.
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(
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).
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Measurements and indices.
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: HL 0.56, HW 0.46, EL 0.17, SL 0.66,
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0.76, FeL 0.63,
<collectionCode box="[397,428,1069,1092]" country="Czech Republic" name="Západoceské muzeum v Plzni" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" type="Museum">PL</collectionCode>
0.30,
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0.33, CI 82, SI 143, EI 36, FeI 71.
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0.76,
<collectionCode box="[288,319,1130,1153]" country="Czech Republic" name="Západoceské muzeum v Plzni" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" type="Museum">PL</collectionCode>
0.30,
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0.330.35, FeL 0.630.66, CI 8288, SI 136143, EI 2936, FeI
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="2.[227,1127,639,1583]" box="[227,301,1160,1184]" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">7175.</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="2.[227,1127,639,1583]" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Head: In full-face view, slightly longer than broad, lateral and posterior margins convex. Mandible subtriangular; masticatory margin with five teeth, including largest apical tooth followed by 2 small teeth, medium-sized prebasal tooth, and small basal tooth; basal margin without denticles. Clypeus broad and convex medially, subrectangular, shorter than broad, its anterior margin roundly convex. Eye relatively large,</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="2.[227,1127,639,1583]" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">convex, with 1718 ommatidia along the longest axis, located at mid-length of head laterally; lateral margin of eye reaching lateral margin of head. Ocelli present; lateral ocelli relatively larger than median ocellus; distance between lateral ocelli equal to distance between median ocellus to lateral ocellus. Antennal scape slender, clavate,</paragraph>
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1/3 of its length, extending beyond posterior margin of head; antennal segment II longer than broad and longer than each of segments III and IV; segments
<collectionCode box="[1019,1038,1498,1521]" country="Canada" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:13946" name="Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" type="Museum">V</collectionCode>
X each thin and longer than broad; apical segment (
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) forming a club. Frontal lobe narrow and frontal carina short barely attaining level of anterior margin of eye.
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Fig 1.
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, holotype worker (THNHM-I-24840). A body in
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<paragraph blockId="3.[227,1127,1247,1295]" box="[227,856,1273,1295]" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">profile view; B head in full-face view; C body in dorsal view.</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="3.[227,1127,1331,1623]" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Mesosoma: Stout, in profile pronotum with almost straight dorsal outline, while mesonotum sloping gradually to metanotal groove; mesothorax reduced and slender,</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="3.[227,1127,1331,1623]" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">mesonotal spiracles raised slightly higher than mesonotal dorsal outline; promesonotal suture and metanotal groove distinct; mesopleuron clearly demarcated from metapleuron by deep groove; metapleuron not demarcated from lateral face of propodeum;</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="3.[227,1127,1331,1623]" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">in dorsal view pronotum clearly broader than mesonotum but slightly broader than propodeum; propodeum about 2/3 length of mesonotum in dorsal view. Propodeum in dorsal view with almost straight dorsal outline, sloping gradually to tip of propodeal spine; propodeal spine large pointed up- and backward; declivity of propodeum more or less flat.</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="4.[227,1127,263,1606]" box="[265,1127,263,287]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Petiole in profile subtriangular and sessile, elevated anteriorly, longer than high,</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="4.[227,1127,263,1606]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">its anterior face vertical, dorsal and posterior faces long and weakly concave; dorsum of petiole with a pair of sharp spines; in dorsal view petiolar node subrectangular,</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="4.[227,1127,263,1606]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">slightly broader than long (DPI 100105), narrower posteriorly; subpetiolar process almost absent. Gaster elongate, in dorsal view, first gastral segment slightly narrower than II. Acidopore present.</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="4.[227,1127,263,1606]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Entire body (head, mandible, antennal scape, mesosoma, legs, petiole, and gaster) smooth and shiny, except mesopleuron wrinkled. Pilosity comparatively sparse; dorsa of head, mesosoma, and metasoma with sparse standing hairs mixed with sparse shorter hairs; tip of metasoma with dense standing hairs; tibiae with dense decumbent hairs. Head, mesosoma, and petiole yellowish brown; gaster dark brown.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[265,339,631,655]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Queen</emphasis>
(
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)
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Measurements and indices.
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: HL 0.73, HW 0.83, EL 0.30, SL 0.76,
<collectionCode box="[1087,1127,662,685]" country="France" name="Musee de Lectoure" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">ML</collectionCode>
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<paragraph blockId="4.[227,1127,263,1606]" box="[227,913,692,716]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">
1.49,
<collectionCode box="[287,318,693,716]" country="Czech Republic" name="Západoceské muzeum v Plzni" pageId="4" pageNumber="5" type="Museum">PL</collectionCode>
0.36,
<collectingCountry box="[385,419,693,716]" name="Philippines" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">PH</collectingCountry>
0.33, FeL 0.89, CI 114, SI 92, EI 36, FeI 108.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="4.[227,1127,263,1606]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Head: In full-face view, slightly shorter than broad, lateral margins convex and posterior margin (between lateral ocelli) roundly concave. Mandible and clypeus with the same condition as in worker. Eye relatively large, convex, with over 25</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="4.[227,1127,263,1606]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">ommatidia along the longest axis, located at mid-length of head laterally; outer margin of eye breaking lateral margin of head. Ocelli present, large; distance between lateral ocelli longer than that between lateral ocellus to median ocellus.</paragraph>
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Antennal scapes slender, clavate, 1/3 of its length extending beyond posterior margin of head; antennal segment II longer than broad and as long as segments III and IV combined; segments
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X each thin and longer than broad; apical segment
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(
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) forming a club. Mandible, clypeus, frontal lobe, and frontal carina the same condition as in worker.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="4.[227,1127,263,1606]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Mesosoma enlarged and high; pronotum in profile distinctly lower than mesoscutum, in dorsal view narrow and subrectangular; promesonotal suture distinct;</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="4.[227,1127,263,1606]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">anterior half of mesoscutum in profile convex but straight in posterior half; mesonotum in dorsal view large, almost 3 times as long as mesoscutellum; mesoscutellum clearly shorter than broad and demarcated from mesoscutum by deep groove; mesopleuron broad, anepisternum clearly demarcated from katepisternum by oblique mesopleural suture; metanotum very narrow. Propodeum low with convex dorsal outline; declivity of propodeum more or less flat.</paragraph>
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Petiole in profile sessile, longer than high, elevated anteriorly and covered with gastral tergite I. Gaster enlarged and elongate, in dorsal view, gastral segment I broader and longer than segments II
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.
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<paragraph blockId="4.[227,1127,263,1606]" box="[265,1127,1397,1422]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Entire body (head, mandible, antennal scape, mesosoma, legs, petiole, and gaster)</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="4.[227,1127,263,1606]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">smooth. Body covered with dense short pubescence with sparse setae; setae on gastral segments IIV located along posterior edges. Antennae and legs without setae. Head, mesosoma and petiole reddish brown; gaster dark brown.</paragraph>
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DIAGNOSIS.
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<emphasis box="[425,632,1520,1544]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Lepisiota chutimae</emphasis>
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is most similar to
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<emphasis box="[917,1032,1520,1544]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">L. emmelii</emphasis>
(
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</taxonomicName>
</paragraph>
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1932) from
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(
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) and
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<emphasis box="[584,718,1551,1575]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">L. chapmani</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Wheeler" box="[732,893,1551,1575]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5" pagination="38 - 52" refId="ref3166" refString="Wheeler, W. M. 1935. New ants from the Philippines. Psyche, 42: 38 - 52." type="journal article" year="1935">Wheeler, 1935</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
from the
<collectingCountry box="[1006,1126,1551,1575]" name="Philippines" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Philippines</collectingCountry>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="4.[227,1127,263,1606]" box="[227,1124,1581,1606]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">
(
<collectingRegion box="[234,409,1581,1606]" country="Philippines" name="Negros Oriental" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Negros Oriental</collectingRegion>
) in having a slightly smooth, shiny, and yellowish body. However,
</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="5.[227,1127,1246,1295]" box="[265,1127,1246,1268]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
Fig 2.
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<emphasis box="[329,513,1246,1267]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Lepisiota chutimae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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, paratype queen (THNHM-I-24890). A body in profile
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph blockId="5.[227,1127,1246,1295]" box="[227,786,1273,1295]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">view; B head in full-face view; C body in dorsal view.</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="5.[227,1127,1330,1622]" box="[227,1127,1330,1354]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
<taxonomicName authority="Jaitrong &amp; Waengsothorn &amp; Buddhakala, 2022" authorityName="Jaitrong &amp; Waengsothorn &amp; Buddhakala" authorityYear="2022" box="[227,359,1330,1354]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lepisiota" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="chutimae" status="sp. n.">
<emphasis box="[227,359,1330,1354]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">L. chutimae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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can be separated from
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<emphasis box="[725,864,1330,1354]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">L. chapmani</emphasis>
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by gaster dark brown
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="5.[227,1127,1330,1622]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
(yellowish brown in
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Wheeler" baseAuthorityYear="1935" box="[480,625,1360,1384]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lepisiota" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="chapmani">
<emphasis box="[480,495,1361,1384]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">L</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[520,625,1360,1384]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">chapmani</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
); mesopleuron weakly sculptured (sharply longitudinally rugulose in
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<emphasis box="[517,532,1390,1413]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">L</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[547,652,1389,1413]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">chapmani</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
); posterior peduncle of petiole smooth and shiny (finely punctate in
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Wheeler" baseAuthorityYear="1935" box="[516,654,1419,1443]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lepisiota" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="chapmani">
<emphasis box="[516,531,1420,1443]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">L</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[549,654,1419,1443]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">chapmani</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
); head and pronotum clearly smooth and shiny (very finely and superficially reticulate or shagreened with smooth and shining interspaces in
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Wheeler" baseAuthorityYear="1935" box="[469,603,1479,1503]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lepisiota" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="chapmani">
<emphasis box="[469,484,1480,1503]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">L</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[498,603,1479,1503]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">chapmani</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
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<emphasis box="[627,832,1479,1503]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Lepisiota chutimae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[840,898,1479,1502]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
can be distinguished from
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<emphasis box="[288,303,1509,1532]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">L</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[319,403,1509,1533]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">emmelii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by tip of petiolar spine directed sideward (upward in
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Kutter" baseAuthorityYear="1932" box="[1004,1119,1509,1533]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lepisiota" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="emmelii">
<emphasis box="[1004,1019,1509,1532]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">L</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[1035,1119,1509,1533]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">emmelii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
</paragraph>
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see figure on page
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for comparison); gaster dark brown
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="5.[227,1127,1330,1622]" box="[227,1126,1568,1592]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
(yellowish brown in
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<emphasis box="[466,481,1569,1592]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">L</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[501,585,1568,1592]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">emmelii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
); anterior face of petiolar node feebly concave
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="5.[227,1127,1330,1622]" box="[227,1019,1598,1622]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
(weakly convex in
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<emphasis box="[431,446,1599,1622]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">L</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[459,543,1598,1622]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">emmelii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
); found in lowland (highland in
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<emphasis box="[891,906,1599,1622]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">L</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[919,1003,1598,1622]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">emmelii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
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HABITAT. The new species is arboreal welling on shrub trees in lowlands of dry evergreen forests. The
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series nested under a leaf of
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<emphasis box="[914,1126,293,317]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Memecylon ovatum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</paragraph>
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Sm. at about 3 meters above the forest floor (arrow on
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). The nest was covered with a dead leaf and no silk was seen. A spider was found in the nest of the
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series.
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Fig 3. Nesting site and nest structure of
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<emphasis box="[658,843,1250,1272]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Lepisiota chutimae</emphasis>
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A nesting habitat on
</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName authority="Sm." authorityName="Sm." box="[227,462,1277,1299]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Memecylon" kingdom="Plantae" order="Myrtales" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ovatum">
<emphasis box="[227,415,1277,1299]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Memecylon ovatum</emphasis>
Sm.
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, a shrub tree (arrow points to nesting site); B nest under a leaf and
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph blockId="6.[227,1127,1250,1327]" box="[227,650,1305,1327]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">covered with a dead leaf; C nest structure.</paragraph>
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DISTRIBUTION.
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(
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and
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Provin-
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</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="6.[227,1127,1380,1588]" box="[227,279,1411,1435]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">ces).</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="6.[227,1127,1380,1588]" box="[265,1127,1441,1466]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">ETYMOLOGY. The specific name is dedicated to Professor Dr. Chutima Eam-</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="6.[227,1127,1380,1588]" box="[227,1127,1472,1497]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">
chotchawalit, the governor of
<collectingCountry box="[551,646,1472,1496]" name="Thailand" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Thailand</collectingCountry>
Institute of the Scientific and Technological
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="6.[227,1127,1380,1588]" box="[227,1127,1503,1527]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">
Research (
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), who is in charge of the Sakaerat Environmental Research Station,
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="6.[227,1127,1380,1588]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">the type locality of the species and strongly supported conducting biodiversity research including our research project.</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="7.[227,1127,325,441]" box="[265,1126,325,349]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to Prof. Seiki Yamane (Kago-</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="7.[227,1127,325,441]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">
shima University Museum,
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) for his valuable comments on and corrections to an earlier version of the draft. This study was partly supported by the Office of
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="7.[227,1127,325,441]" box="[227,691,417,441]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">
<collectingCountry box="[227,322,417,441]" name="Thailand" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Thailand</collectingCountry>
Science Research and Innovation.
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