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<document ENCODING="UTF8" ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6289524" ID-GBIF-Dataset="e85c0be9-e05d-407b-a581-90eaf52229cf" ID-GBIF-Taxon="114926694" ID-Zenodo-Dep="6289524" checkinTime="1423592147049" checkinUser="donat" docAuthor="Crawley, W. C." docDate="1920" docId="FE4916079E2F8599F4828BA09A7AF0C3" docLanguage="en" docName="6197.htm.xml" docOrigin="Entomologists Record and Journal of Variation 32" docTitle="Monomorium (Paraholcomyrmex) destructor var. pallidus" docType="treatment" docVersion="7" lastPageNumber="3" masterDocId="FB947D334009E14DB2B65DB0C29615D8" masterDocTitle="Ants from Mesopotamia and north-west Persia (concluded)" masterLastPageNumber="179" masterPageNumber="177" pageNumber="3" updateTime="1645828271792" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>Ants from Mesopotamia and north-west Persia (concluded)</mods:title>
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<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
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<mods:namePart>Crawley, W. C.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:typeOfResource>text</mods:typeOfResource>
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<mods:title>Entomologists Record and Journal of Variation</mods:title>
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<mods:part>
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<mods:date>1920</mods:date>
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<mods:detail type="volume">
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<mods:number>32</mods:number>
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<mods:start>177</mods:start>
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<mods:end>179</mods:end>
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<mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">10.5281/zenodo.15001</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6289524" ID-GBIF-Taxon="114926694" ID-Zenodo-Dep="6289524" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:FE4916079E2F8599F4828BA09A7AF0C3" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/FE4916079E2F8599F4828BA09A7AF0C3" lastPageNumber="3" pageNumber="3">
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<subSubSection type="nomenclature">
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="3" type="mainText">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="2" pageNumber="3" start="start">[</pageBreakToken>
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.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Monomorium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="variety" species="destructor" subGenus="Paraholcomyrmex" variety="pallidus">Monomorium (Paraholcomyrmex) destructor, Jerd.,
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<taxonomicName authority=", Donisthorpe" authorityName=", Donisthorpe" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Monomorium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="variety" species="destructor" variety="pallidus">
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var. pallidus
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<authority>, Donisthorpe</authority>
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</taxonomicName>
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</taxonomicName>
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(Ent. Rec., xxx. 10, p. 166, 1918).]
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="3" type="mainText">☿. L. 2.0 mm.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="3" type="mainText">Monomorphic. Entirely pale yellow, in some specimens the apical half of first segment of gaster and the following segments very slightly darker.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="3" type="mainText">
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A few stiff hairs on clypeus, head, pronotum, nodes and gaster;
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<normalizedToken originalValue="antennæ">antennae</normalizedToken>
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hairy but without
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<normalizedToken originalValue="exsertéd">exserted</normalizedToken>
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hairs. Short scanty adherent hairs scattered over head and legs.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="3" type="mainText">Mandibles 4-dentate. Anterior border of clypeus straight, the central portion concave and bounded on each side by a well-defined carina. Head elongate-oval, posterior border almost straight. Eyes just in advance of middle of sides. The scapes extend barely beyond occipital border. Club of funiculus 3-jointed, all the joints much longer than thick; the second is much longer than the first, and the apical joint is longer than the two following taken together. The rest of the joints are approximately equal except the first.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="3" type="mainText">Thorax with a fairly deep incision; the angle between base and declivity of epinotum rounded; dorsum of epinotum flat, not longitudinally impressed. Stalk of petiole rather short; first node hardly higher than second, broad at base; the second broader, rounded.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="3" type="mainText">Mandibles striate along the flattened outer border, smooth and shining towards apex. Clypeus smooth and shining. Head entirely smooth and shining, with a few minute piligerous points, pronotum also smooth and shining; rest of thorax and epinotum closely thimble-punctured, pedicel less so. Gaster entirely smooth and shing.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="3" type="mainText">
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♀ (Hitherto undescribed). L. 4
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<sup pageId="2" pageNumber="3">-</sup>
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5 mm.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="3" type="mainText">
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Yellow, but a deeper shade than the
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<normalizedToken originalValue="ÿ">y</normalizedToken>
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: a narrow V-shaped mark on scutum, a patch on each side of mesonofcum, the wing insertions and borders of ocelli brown; a band, broadening at the sides, along the apical border of first segment of gaster, and the whole of the remaining segments of gaster dark brown; extreme apical borders of segments yellow. 'Pilosity as in 5, but longer. Head longer than broad, but shorter proportionately than in 5; occipital border shallowly excavated; scapes somewhat shorter proportionately; eyes large, slightly in advance of middle of sides. Dorsum of thorax almost horizontal; epinotum descends abruptly with hardly any division between base and declivity.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="3" type="mainText">First node narrower in profile than in g. Gaster large, oval. Head with a superficial longitudinal striation; thorax shining, with a few small punctures, epinotum and pedicel as in g; gaster shining.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="3" type="mainText">☿, Amara (Buxton) 1918; N.E. of Baghdad (Evans) 1918, with a single dealated 5.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection type="discussion">
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="3" type="mainText">
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Recorded in 1918 by Donisthorpe* as a colour variety of
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<taxonomicName authority=", Jerd" authorityName=", Jerd" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Monomorium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="destructor" subGenus="Paraholcomynnex">
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M. (Paraholcomynnex) destructor
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<authority>, Jerd</authority>
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</taxonomicName>
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. The characters of the subgenus
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Monomorium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Paraholcomynnex">Paraholcomynnex</taxonomicName>
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, however, as defined by Emery (Bull. Soc. ent. Fr., 'p. 191, 1915) are:
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<normalizedToken originalValue="ÿ">y</normalizedToken>
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g somewhat dimorphic, first and second joints of club of
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<normalizedToken originalValue="antennæ">antennae</normalizedToken>
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visibly equal.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Monomorium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="destructor" subSpecies="Pallidum">Pallidum</taxonomicName>
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has the first joint of club considerably shorter and narrower than the second, and its ☿ ☿ are monomorphic; it will therefore rank as a species belongipg to the subgenus
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Monomorium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Monomorium</taxonomicName>
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(s.str.).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="3" type="mainText">
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* Specimens were sent by me to Mons. Emery as I was unable to make it agree with any known species and he returned them to me as a pale form of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Monomorium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="destructor">M. destructor</taxonomicName>
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. I therefore described it as a
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<taxonomicNameLabel rank="variety">new variety</taxonomicNameLabel>
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of that species. I entirely agree with Mr. Crawley that it is a
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<taxonomicNameLabel rank="species">new species</taxonomicNameLabel>
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.-H.St.J.D.
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</treatment>
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