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<mods:namePart id="AD0172861072B76890B0E74F26E042FA">Wilson, E. O.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:identifier id="015071857DBB733FC762F9E9F51DCED9" type="HNS-Pub">20017</mods:identifier>
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<treatment id="965DBD2796B6DE11BBE88F1FDC298E1A" ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6275695" ID-GBIF-Taxon="100119913" ID-Zenodo-Dep="6275695" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:965DBD2796B6DE11BBE88F1FDC298E1A" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/965DBD2796B6DE11BBE88F1FDC298E1A" lastPageNumber="178" pageNumber="178">
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<paragraph id="812F98A797F4DBA111D652F0C4BB2F58" pageNumber="178">
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<taxonomicName id="47E7381F6C2BC533B7C79863EC2292B4" ID-CoL="4FY9C" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33654" authority="Wheeler" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole cataractae Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="178" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cataractae">Pheidole cataractae Wheeler</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph id="2A691C6EB1DB5DCB432DCB7B9016320B" pageNumber="178">
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<taxonomicName id="98572A917D0E398CE4D8453CDA198815" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33654" authority="Wheeler" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole cataractae Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="178" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cataractae">Pheidole cataractae Wheeler</taxonomicName>
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1916c: 6.
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<subSubSection id="8860CE4108FCD68C42402A45B476A28C" type="nomenclature">
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<paragraph id="6B8136D0711A15BB516091F416921D58" pageNumber="178">Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="A164915245D1E8CAF0A9894BECD05C22" type="etymology">
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<paragraph id="483D7F953CE7E1EE4892E67C74D46DC1" pageNumber="178">etymology Gr cataract, waterfall, alluding to the Kaieteur Fall, at the type locality.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="E65B888913F46F43FB735E61885DEBCF" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph id="E683A3022DCDF2CE3CA11CCD7F962763" pageNumber="178">
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diagnosis A brown, unusually small and slender member of the
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<taxonomicName id="20103BE1B405282827D360CD93F133EC" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:142247" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Atta" genus.completionEvidence="missing, matching species" genus.innerRound="1" genus.outerRound="1" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Atta diligens Smith" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="178" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="diligens">diligens</taxonomicName>
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group.
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<subSubSection id="E3D4589F456288CFF1BDDDC2EC85A12D" type="description">
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<paragraph id="46C1B7437A5EA016CB02E268BCEDF569" pageNumber="178">Major: body mostly smooth and shiny, with portions of mesosoma and propodeum foveolate, and with widely spaced longitudinal carinulae over part of dorsal head surface, their interspaces foveolate or smooth and shiny. Minor: very slender; propodeal spines reduced to denticles.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="A3500CB3C8AD7FBB8E5B86BA1FB238A4" pageNumber="178">A media, possibly a developmental anomaly, was found in a series from Cuzco Amazonico, in Amazonian Peru.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8AB2C26F8EC2C620930B61C095302213" pageNumber="178">
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Close to
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<taxonomicName id="9EC4D4AD505BE72C3C91883A5008B8AA" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Atta" genus.completionEvidence="missing" genus.completionRound="1" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="178" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="calimana">calimana</taxonomicName>
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, distinguished from that species by its well-developed propodeal spines and shorter cephalic carinulae in the major and smooth, shiny head in the minor.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="0DC1B1DA6D11A8CA20A0D538B80D77D3" pageNumber="178">Measurements (mm) Lectotype major: HW 0.94, HL 0.94, SL 0.76, EL 0.14, PW 0.44. Paralectotype minor: HW 0.42, HL 0.50, SL 0.64, EL 0.10, PW 0.28.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="A8C23C81D9ED0413DC5EBD8ECCBD4941" pageNumber="178">color Major: body medium brown, with mandibles and anterior quarter of head capsule dark yellowish brown; antennae and legs medium yellowish brown.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="CDF75092A6FBDC12F1E62F2F5038E4F1" pageNumber="178">Minor: body concolorous light brown, appendages a lighter shade of yellowish brown.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="9FAD6D0F59EC3B3747063D6CE3C06848" type="distribution">
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<paragraph id="4116631E66B0086A1E4F9B1A7EBA3556" pageNumber="178">Range Known from one locality each in Guyana, north of Manaus in Brazil, and Cuzco Amazonico, near Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Peru.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="11CF2B7F4F1C64BCA35B2396E9326B41" type="biology_ecology">
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<paragraph id="21334362329122C36365F3AF22E688CE" pageNumber="178">
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Biology Nests in pieces of rotting dead wood on the floor of rainforest. A media (minor-major intercaste) was found in the Peruvian series. Having studied a colony I collected north of Manaus and maintained in the laboratory, I agree with the following assessment by Stefan Cover (personal communication), based on his experiences at Cuzco Amazonico: "
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<taxonomicName id="526931A8D6AB089C4B15D379DFD30A13" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:33654" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" genus.bestMatchDistance="324" genus.bestMatchVote="2" genus.innerRound="1" genus.outerRound="1" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole cataractae Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="178" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cataractae">P. cataractae</taxonomicName>
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belongs to a small guild of rainforest
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<taxonomicName id="EA40158071E8CD8702A1F1FF83461249" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:24885" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole Westwood" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="178" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Pheidole</taxonomicName>
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characterized by agile, fast-moving workers and soldiers [majors] with relatively long appendages; it nests in ephemeral sites on the forest floor and finds food sources rapidly, but retreats if competition shows up." The adaptation represents a behavioral (and in long appendages, anatomical) convergence to many species of the formicine genus
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<taxonomicName id="7FC55F6FC1660433C12333D6427372C8" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:24774" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Paratrechina" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Paratrechina Motschoulsky" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="178" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Paratrechina</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph id="FA49452C29E918B938F8635D6E6A6655" pageNumber="178">Figure Upper: lectotype, major. Lower: paralectotype, minor, on top; and head, mesosoma, and waist, a minor from Fazenda Dimona, 90 km north of Manaus, Brazil (E. O. Wilson). (Type locality: Kaieteur, Guyana.) Scale bars = 1 mm.</paragraph>
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