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<paragraph id="7D6911522ADA60234F31BF6894AE56F6" pageNumber="295">(Figs 2-4, 6, 9-12, 24)</paragraph>
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pswllO; Fisher 2002: 318. Cited in faunal inventory.
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<paragraph id="A98BA6C42877AAE83A18F6697DC45155" pageNumber="295">
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worker.
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<location id="79C271415D96F74A453E6CF47E2B90FD" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:C436FC3ED0D282DF411E17DCE4914AE2:79C271415D96F74A453E6CF47E2B90FD" country="MADAGASCAR" name="Antsiranana">Antsiranana</location>
:
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,
<location id="2C7E55FA51D3BC47857E9F3267E34F68" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:C436FC3ED0D282DF411E17DCE4914AE2:2C7E55FA51D3BC47857E9F3267E34F68" country="MADAGASCAR" name="4 km ESE Andoany">4 km ESE Andoany</location>
(=
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), 100 m,
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,
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, ex rotten stick on ground, rainforest,
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#
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(
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) (
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).
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</paragraph>
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<typeStatus id="1160AB8F6171183651EEA4D6E9CF12F8">Paratypes</typeStatus>
.
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of workers and queens, same locality and date as
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, elevation 100-200 m (P. S. Ward#10456, 10457, 10459, 10463, 10465, 10470-1) (
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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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<paragraph id="981A1219F6FB15974FA2589EEAFA952E" pageNumber="295">
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Material Examined.-(
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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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Antsiranana: Ampasindava, Ambilanivy, 3.9 km
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Ambaliha, 600 m (Fisher, B. L.; et al.)
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;
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<normalizedToken id="CFEF5D57A02FDA50A2693DC133A5135D" originalValue="Forêt">Foret</normalizedToken>
Antsahabe, 11.4 km
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Dairana, 550 m (Fisher, B. L.; et al.)
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;
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<normalizedToken id="5F4C2D7E095C651477397DF76E7E42CB" originalValue="Forêt">Foret</normalizedToken>
Binara, 9.1 km 233° SW Dairana, 650-800 m (Fisher, B. L.)
</materialsCitation>
;
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;
<materialsCitation id="381CB7F8D84B4589401F47403D718B22" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="923898927" country="Madagascar">
<normalizedToken id="EE2009505151DFCE95515FD967CBA918" originalValue="Rés">Res</normalizedToken>
. Ankarana, 7 km SE Matsaborimanga, 150 m (Ward, P. S.)
</materialsCitation>
;
<materialsCitation id="244B4E7D8EAC339C269F5FBFB36B46D7" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="923898920" country="Madagascar">
<normalizedToken id="7AC619558A0B9CF43400B5C0BA1AC43A" originalValue="Rés">Res</normalizedToken>
.
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. Ankarana, 13.6 km 192° SSW Anivorano Nord, 210 m (Alpert, G. D.; et al.)
</materialsCitation>
;
<materialsCitation id="5A81AE27F630320423346B3DCB8AA0C1" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="923898930" country="Madagascar">
<normalizedToken id="DC164150F8E02676AD3AF29D72CDC8E5" originalValue="Rés">Res</normalizedToken>
.
<normalizedToken id="33904AD55EF14A82A7C28F1A6BF49277" originalValue="Spéc">Spec</normalizedToken>
. Ankarana, 13.6 km 192° SSW Anivorano Nord, 210 m (Fisher, B. L.; et al.)
</materialsCitation>
;
<materialsCitation id="5C2297F2DD418C34F5D1FA94A1CDC39A" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="923898925" country="Madagascar">
<normalizedToken id="70C5ED49432DAD771CA5196A5CDAD96E" originalValue="Rés">Res</normalizedToken>
.
<normalizedToken id="30FB3880DDF11DE4D3ECA2F57B663B5E" originalValue="Spéc">Spec</normalizedToken>
. Ankarana, 22.9 km 224° SW Anivorano Nord, 80 m (Fisher, B. L.; et al)
</materialsCitation>
;
<materialsCitation id="7ED31134F8717BD4040A86433A77C5F0" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="923898929" country="Madagascar">R.S. Manongarivo, 10.8 km 229° SW Antanambao, 400 m (Fisher, B. L.)</materialsCitation>
;
<materialsCitation id="F000E362F28026B7153EFCAAF2D7EBAF" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="923898926" country="Madagascar">R.S. Manongarivo, 12.8 km 228° SW Antanambao, 780 m (Fisher, B. L.)</materialsCitation>
;
<materialsCitation id="DBDCD4F5D42F44349EB689DDFE5B9785" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="923898934" country="Madagascar">Toliara: Ambohijanahary, 34.6 km 314° NW Ambaravaranala, 1100 m (Fisher, В. L.; et al)</materialsCitation>
;
<materialsCitation id="A0F12C7C3CCB0AE3A8D74A2A88E5AD36" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="923898932" country="Madagascar">Ambohijanahary, 35.2 km 312° NW Ambaravaranala, 1050 m (Fisher, B. L.; et al.)</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="D6B16AE82B320237FB0CFD207F75EFB0" pageNumber="295">Worker measurements (n = 13). HW 0.95-1.31, HL 1.19-1.55, LHT 1.12-1.53, CI 0.78-0.90, FCI 0.14-0.18, REL 0.30-0.35, REL2 0.35-0.41, SI 0.77-0.83, FI 0.29-0.34, PLI 0.50-0.58, PWI 0.42-0.53.</paragraph>
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Worker diagnosis. Similar to
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(q.v.). Basal margin of mandible lacking tooth; anterior clypeal margin broadly convex and crenulate, directed forward; head relatively elongate (CI 0.78-0.90); metanotal spiracle visible in lateral view of mesosoma (Fig. 6); dorsal face of propodeum usually broadly convex in posterior view, but more dorsally compressed and subtriangular in one population(see below); standing pilosity and appressed pubescence generally sparse; integument mostly sublucid, with fine coriarious/puncticulate sculpture; body unicolorous yellow-brown or orange-brown, legs usually with contrasting black bands on the distal portions of the femora; banding sometimes weakly developed on the profemur, and absent from ali legs in one population.
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Comments. T. hespera
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an assemblage of variably isolated populations in northwestern Madagascar. This species is most readily recognized by its distinctive color pattern: workers are usually a unicolorous yellow-brown or orange-brown, with contrasting black bands on the legs (Fig. 10). In earlier identifications of
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material I employed a code name for this species:
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pswllO.
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<paragraph id="48E74FF5A38C7514DBBDA0A09F6E5059" lastPageNumber="296" pageNumber="295">
The hespera-like population occupying the Ankarana Massif is divergent in several respects: workers lack the characteristic black leg banding (Fig. 12) and they have a dorsally narrowed propodeum that appears more or less triangular in shape when seen in posterior view (Fig. 3), in contrast to the broadly convex propodeum seen in other populations of
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(Fig. 4) and in the rest of the
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group. Although I considered treating the
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form as a different species, severa! observations argued against this.
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(1) It is strictly allopatric to the more typical morph of Г.
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, so there is no &quot;test&quot; of species distinctness in sympatry.
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(2) Samples from tropical dry forest at
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Antsahabe, 60 km southeast of Ankarana, have black leg banding but the propodeum tends to be intermediate in shape between the Ankarana morph and more typical
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. (3) A worker (
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10881; CASENT0053718) from another nearby locality,
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Binara, has black leg banding and a broadly convex propodeal dorsum -yet it is genetically identical at the mitochondrial COI locus to a worker from
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Antsahabe. The COI data indicate that ali three populations (Ankarana, Antsahabe and Binara) are closely related and form a clade that is sister to
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+
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, but with combined nuclear gene
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the three populations do not form a clade; instead, they are paraphyletic with respect to
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. Thus, recognizing the Ankarana form as a distinct species would require an arbitrary division along a gradient of differentiated allopatric populations.
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Distribution and biology. This species is found in northwestern Madagascar, with an isolated population at Ambohijanahary in centrai western Madagascar (Fig. 24). It occurs sympatrically with
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and
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at one or more localities. Most populations of
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are in seasonally dry rainforest, where colonies tend to nest near the ground level, usually in rotten sticks. One colony from the type locality (
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10456) was nesting in an earthworm cast on the ground. As in
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, observed colony sizes are small (4-36 workers).
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