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Forel st.
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gyne:
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[
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, antweb.org image of specimen CASENT0101127] (examined). Subspecies of
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. Subspecies of
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The
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gyne has no head but the conserved mesosoma and waist characters clearly exclude that it from the
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,
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,
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,
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and NUMOBAT files of these specimens hosted in
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Görlitz. The
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differs from this
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group material by a wide petiole with a node appearing globular in dorsal view and a ratio PEW/PPW of 0.68.
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ratio is 0.576 ± 0.027 [0.511, 0.654] in 114 measured gynes of the
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group—in other words, the
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has a probability of p&lt;0.00005 of belonging to this cluster.
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, the propodeum of the
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95°.
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, the color of the
<taxonomicName id="C8E00693FFF9FFD131D1D9F8FDEDF82C" box="[425,593,1973,1998]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Cardiocondyla" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="29" pageNumber="353" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sculptinodis">
<emphasis id="3D94A102FFF9FFD131D1D9F8FDEDF82C" box="[425,593,1973,1998]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="353">C. sculptinodis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<typeStatus id="D05BC3B2FFF9FFD13220D9F8FD34F82C" box="[600,648,1974,1998]" pageId="29" pageNumber="353">type</typeStatus>
is uniformly dark or blackish brown—this has never been observed in the two species of the
<taxonomicName id="C8E00693FFF9FFD131E6D994FE45F810" ID-CoL="R5BT" box="[414,505,2009,2034]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Cardiocondyla" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="29" pageNumber="353" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nuda">
<emphasis id="3D94A102FFF9FFD131E6D994FE45F810" box="[414,505,2009,2034]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="353">C. nuda</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group possibly occurring in
<collectingCountry id="77F73D80FFF9FFD13332D997FC6DF810" box="[842,977,2009,2034]" name="Madagascar" pageId="29" pageNumber="353">Madagascar</collectingCountry>
(
<taxonomicName id="C8E00693FFF9FFD1339CD994FB2CF813" ID-CoL="R5BL" box="[996,1168,2010,2033]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Cardiocondyla" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="29" pageNumber="353" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mauritanica">
<emphasis id="3D94A102FFF9FFD1339CD994FB2CF813" box="[996,1168,2010,2033]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="353">C. mauritanica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="C8E00693FFF9FFD134B4D994FA8FF810" box="[1228,1331,2009,2034]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Cardiocondyla" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="29" pageNumber="353" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itsukii">
<emphasis id="3D94A102FFF9FFD134B4D994FA8FF810" box="[1228,1331,2009,2034]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="353">C. itsukii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
<collectingMunicipality id="EF3BE76AFFF9FFD13535D994FAD3F810" box="[1357,1391,2010,2034]" pageId="29" pageNumber="353">On</collectingMunicipality>
the other hand, there is no single character of the
<taxonomicName id="C8E00693FFFAFFD232BCDED6FCCDFF52" box="[708,881,151,176]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Cardiocondyla" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="30" pageNumber="354" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sculptinodis">
<emphasis id="3D94A102FFFAFFD232BCDED6FCCDFF52" box="[708,881,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="354">C. sculptinodis</emphasis>
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<typeStatus id="D05BC3B2FFFAFFD23305DED6FC11FF52" box="[893,941,152,176]" pageId="30" pageNumber="354">type</typeStatus>
which contradicts an allocation to the
<taxonomicName id="C8E00693FFFAFFD235FADED6FEB8FF37" ID-CoL="R5C3" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Cardiocondyla" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="30" pageNumber="354" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="shuckardi">
<emphasis id="3D94A102FFFAFFD235FADED6FEB8FF37" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="354">C. shuckardi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group.
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character combination is close to
<taxonomicName id="C8E00693FFFAFFD2336FDEF3FB91FF36" ID-CoL="R5C3" authority="Forel 1891" authorityName="Forel" authorityYear="1891" box="[791,1069,188,213]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Cardiocondyla" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="30" pageNumber="354" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="shuckardi">
<emphasis id="3D94A102FFFAFFD2336FDEF3FC1BFF37" box="[791,935,188,213]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="354">C. shuckardi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="6B7100E1FFFAFFD233C9DEF2FB91FF36" author="Forel" box="[945,1069,188,213]" pageId="30" pageNumber="354" refString="Forel, A. (1891) Histoire naturelle des Hymenopteres 2 (fascicule 28). Les Formicides. In Grandidier, A.: Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar, 20, 1 - 231." type="journal article" year="1891">Forel 1891</bibRefCitation>
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itself, the
<typeStatus id="D05BC3B2FFFAFFD234D3DEF3FB67FF37" box="[1195,1243,189,213]" pageId="30" pageNumber="354">type</typeStatus>
of which is also from
<collectingCountry id="77F73D80FFFAFFD230AFDE91FEDDFF1A" box="[215,353,223,248]" name="Madagascar" pageId="30" pageNumber="354">Madagascar</collectingCountry>
</materialsCitation>
. The
<taxonomicName id="C8E00693FFFAFFD231DCDEAEFD89FF1A" ID-CoL="R5C3" box="[420,565,223,248]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Cardiocondyla" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="30" pageNumber="354" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="shuckardi">
<emphasis id="3D94A102FFFAFFD231DCDEAEFD89FF1A" box="[420,565,223,248]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="354">C. shuckardi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group contains a minimum of four and a maximum of six species (unpub. data). It is not clear if there is more than one species of this group on Madagascar, so synonymization at this point would be premature.
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