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<mods:title>A remarkable new species of the genus Lepisiota Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Oman and the United Arab Emirates with a key to the Arabian species</mods:title>
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Sharaf &amp; Monks
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A
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E)
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,
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,
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Figure
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A),
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April 2012
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,
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22°
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'
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&quot;N
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,
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°
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'
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&quot;E
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,
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,
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(
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); the holotype is temporarily deposited in
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pending the completion of the new Oman Natural History Museum (ONHM).
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workers
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,
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,
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,
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March 2016
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22°
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'
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&quot;N
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,
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°
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'
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&quot;E
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,
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<quantity box="[471,549,1484,1508]" metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="6.1899999999999995" pageId="4" pageNumber="4" unit="m" value="619.0">619 m</quantity>
,
</elevation>
(
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) one in
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and one in
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;
<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="1269837578" collectingDate="2014-03-11" collectingDateMax="2016-03-25" collectingDateMin="2014-03-11" collectionCode="KSMA" collectorName="J. Monks" country="United Arab Emirates" elevation="0" latitude="24.06738" location="Ain Al Waal at the foot of Jebel Hafeet" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="55.7489" pageId="4" pageNumber="4" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-worker="1" typeStatus="paratype">
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,
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,
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,
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March 2014
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,
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24°
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'
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&quot;N
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,
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°
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'
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&quot;E
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, (
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); deposited in
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.
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</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,333,1632,1658]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="4">Measurements</emphasis>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,273,1667,1693]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="4">
<typeStatus box="[160,267,1667,1693]" pageId="4" pageNumber="4">Holotype</typeStatus>
.
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EL
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, HL
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, HW
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,
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, PRW
<number box="[757,805,1669,1693]" pageId="4" pageNumber="4" value="0.48">0.48</number>
, PSL
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, SL 1.00, TL
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, WL
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. Indices: CI
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, OI
<number box="[419,448,1703,1727]" pageId="4" pageNumber="4" value="26.0">26</number>
,
<collectionCode box="[461,507,1703,1727]" pageId="4" pageNumber="4">PSLI</collectionCode>
<number box="[516,544,1703,1727]" pageId="4" pageNumber="4" value="33.0">33</number>
, SI
<number box="[586,629,1703,1727]" pageId="4" pageNumber="4" value="154.0">154</number>
.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,252,1613,1636]" pageId="5" pageNumber="5">Figure 2.</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[260,454,1613,1636]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="5">Lepisiota omanensis</emphasis>
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,
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(A) body in profile, (B) body in dorsal view, (C) body profile characters, (D) head in full-face view showing scape, and (E) head in full-face view showing clypeal and cephalic pilosity.
</paragraph>
</caption>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,254,860,883]" pageId="6" pageNumber="6">Figure 3.</emphasis>
(A) Jebel Qahwan, Oman: type locality of
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(B) Ain Al Waal, United Arab Emirates, paratype locality. (C)
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<taxonomicName box="[601,668,889,912]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Lycium" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="6" pageNumber="6" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">Lycium</taxonomicName>
shawii
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Roem. &amp; Schult.
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<typeStatus box="[160,277,986,1012]" pageId="6" pageNumber="6">Paratypes</typeStatus>
.
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EL
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, HL
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0.57
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0.70
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, HW
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0.50
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0.60
</number>
, ML
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,
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0.25
<emphasis box="[910,923,989,1012]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="6"></emphasis>
0.37
</number>
, PRW
<number box="[1043,1151,988,1012]" pageId="6" pageNumber="6" value="0.385" valueMax="0.42" valueMin="0.35">
0.35
<emphasis box="[1090,1103,989,1012]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="6"></emphasis>
0.42
</number>
, PSL
<number box="[207,315,1023,1047]" pageId="6" pageNumber="6" value="0.165" valueMax="0.22" valueMin="0.11">
0.11
<emphasis box="[254,267,1023,1046]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="6"></emphasis>
0.22
</number>
, SL
<number box="[360,468,1023,1047]" pageId="6" pageNumber="6" value="1.275" valueMax="1.4" valueMin="1.15">
1.15
<emphasis box="[407,420,1023,1046]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="6"></emphasis>
1.40
</number>
, TL
<number box="[513,620,1023,1047]" pageId="6" pageNumber="6" value="2.875" valueMax="3.5" valueMin="2.25">
2.25
<emphasis box="[559,572,1023,1046]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="6"></emphasis>
3.50
</number>
, WL
<number box="[675,784,1023,1047]" pageId="6" pageNumber="6" value="1.2000000000000002" valueMax="1.35" valueMin="1.05">
1.05
<emphasis box="[721,734,1023,1046]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="6"></emphasis>
1.35
</number>
. Indices: CI
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86
<emphasis box="[942,955,1023,1046]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="6"></emphasis>
88
</number>
, OI
<number box="[1028,1098,1023,1047]" pageId="6" pageNumber="6" value="36.5" valueMax="40.0" valueMin="33.0">
33
<emphasis box="[1055,1068,1023,1046]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="6"></emphasis>
40
</number>
,
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<number box="[160,229,1058,1082]" pageId="6" pageNumber="6" value="25.0" valueMax="31.0" valueMin="19.0">
19
<emphasis box="[187,200,1058,1081]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="6"></emphasis>
31
</number>
, SI
<number box="[271,366,1058,1082]" pageId="6" pageNumber="6" value="231.5" valueMax="233.0" valueMin="230.0">
230
<emphasis box="[312,325,1058,1081]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="6"></emphasis>
233
</number>
(n =
<number box="[431,446,1058,1082]" pageId="6" pageNumber="6" value="2.0">2</number>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="6" type="diagnosis">
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<heading bold="true" box="[160,276,1141,1167]" fontSize="11" level="2" pageId="6" pageNumber="6" reason="0">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,276,1141,1167]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="6">Diagnosis</emphasis>
</heading>
</paragraph>
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This new species can be distinguished immediately from all known Arabian and Afrotropical species by the long, acute and strongly curved propodeal spines (
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Figure
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).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph blockId="6.[160,1156,1331,1496]" box="[160,418,1331,1357]" pageId="6" pageNumber="6">
<heading bold="true" box="[160,418,1331,1357]" fontSize="11" level="2" pageId="6" pageNumber="6" reason="0">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,418,1331,1357]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="6">Description of worker</emphasis>
</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="6.[160,1156,1331,1496]" pageId="6" pageNumber="6">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,228,1366,1392]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="6">Head.</emphasis>
Distinctly longer than broad, with straight posterior margin and shallowly convex lateral margins; antennal scape when laid back from its insertion surpassing the posterior margin of head by more than half of its length; eyes of moderate size (EL
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0.26
<emphasis box="[1095,1108,1438,1461]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="6"></emphasis>
0.40
</number>
× HW).
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="6.[160,1155,1556,1616]" pageId="6" pageNumber="6">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,293,1556,1582]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="6">Mesosoma.</emphasis>
Elongate with a narrow mesonotum; propodeal spines exceptionally long, acute and strongly curved (
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<number box="[530,600,1592,1616]" pageId="6" pageNumber="6" value="26.0" valueMax="33.0" valueMin="19.0">
19
<emphasis box="[558,571,1593,1616]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="6"></emphasis>
33
</number>
).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,246,1676,1702]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="6">Petiole.</emphasis>
Bispinose dorsally.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="7.[160,1156,141,306]" pageId="7" pageNumber="7">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,251,141,167]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="7">Pilosity.</emphasis>
Posterior margin of head with a single pair of stiff, short setae; anterior clypeal margin with three pairs of long setae; mesosoma bare except for a single pair of setae on pronotum, gastral pilosity restricted to few setae on posterior margins of tergites and sternites, all body surface with pale scattered appressed pubescence.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,277,349,375]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="7">Sculpture.</emphasis>
Overall smooth and shining.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="7.[160,1155,419,479]" pageId="7" pageNumber="7">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,244,419,445]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="7">Colour.</emphasis>
Uniform black with purple reflections on the face and gaster, antennae and mandibles yellow-brown.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,285,523,549]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="7">Etymology</emphasis>
</heading>
</paragraph>
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Named after the country of the
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locality.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="7" pageNumber="7" type="biology_ecology">
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<heading bold="true" box="[160,402,627,653]" fontSize="11" level="2" pageId="7" pageNumber="7" reason="0">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,402,627,653]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="7">Habitat and biology</emphasis>
</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="7.[160,1156,627,1034]" pageId="7" pageNumber="7">
The
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locality, Jebel Qahwan (
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Figure
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A), is located in the Eastern Hajar Mountains, an area with substantial floral and faunal biodiversity. The two
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from
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were collected at Ain Al Waal (
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Figure
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B) (Huw Hoberts, pers. comm.). This site is characterised by areas with rocks and boulders surrounding semi-permanent pools near a dam. The water in the pools is used by the endangered Arabian tahr,
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<emphasis box="[160,388,836,860]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="7">Arabitragus jayakari</emphasis>
(Thomas)
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.
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<emphasis box="[517,743,837,860]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="7">Lepisiota omanensis</emphasis>
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seems to have an association with the plants
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<emphasis box="[293,533,871,895]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="7">Ochradenus arabicus</emphasis>
Chaudhary, Hillc. &amp; A.G.Mill.
</taxonomicName>
(
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), but two other plants are also present in the area,
<taxonomicName box="[709,883,906,930]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Amaranthaceae" genus="Aerva" kingdom="Plantae" order="Caryophyllales" pageId="7" pageNumber="7" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="javanica">
<emphasis box="[709,883,906,930]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="7">Aerva javanica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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) and
<taxonomicName box="[160,382,940,964]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Tephrosia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="7" pageNumber="7" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="apollinea">
<emphasis box="[160,382,940,964]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="7">Tephrosia apollinea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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). A nest was observed about a metre away from the base of a
<taxonomicName box="[287,449,975,999]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Lycium" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="7" pageNumber="7" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="shawii">
<emphasis box="[287,449,975,999]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="7">Lycium shawii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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) plant (
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Figure
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C). The two
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workers were observed carrying leaf material.
</paragraph>
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</treatment>
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