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<taxonomicName id="18D14D73FF9EFFC56B545E59FA8C3060" authority="Terayama 1999" authorityName="Terayama" authorityYear="1999" box="[847,1316,1030,1055]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Cardiocondyla" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="128" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yamauchii">
<emphasis id="EDA5EAE2FF9EFFC56B545E59FA8C3060" bold="true" box="[847,1316,1030,1055]" pageId="15" pageNumber="128">
<emphasis id="EDA5EAE2FF9EFFC56B545E59FBC63060" bold="true" box="[847,1134,1030,1054]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="128">Cardiocondyla yamauchii</emphasis>
Terayama 1999
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[
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investigated]
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<collectingRegion id="1D15F812FF9EFFC56B545E17FC18301E" box="[847,944,1096,1120]" country="Japan" name="Okinawa" pageId="15" pageNumber="128">Okinawa</collectingRegion>
/
<collectingCountry id="A7C67660FF9EFFC56BDE5E17FBA9301E" box="[965,1025,1096,1120]" name="Japan" pageId="15" pageNumber="128">Japan</collectingCountry>
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from the same sample as
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: Ada, Okinawa-jima
<collectingRegion id="1D15F812FF9EFFC56D205E36FCC230DC" country="Japan" name="Okinawa" pageId="15" pageNumber="128">Okinawa Pref.</collectingRegion>
<date id="AB6F1030FF9EFFC56B665ED5FC4630DC" box="[893,1006,1162,1186]" pageId="15" pageNumber="128" value="1991-06-12">12.VI.1991</date>
K.Yamauchi leg. and
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, Paratype, SMN Goerlitz. The type workers are allocated to the
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cluster with p = 0.9958 if run as wild-card in a LDA (for details see below).
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. Numeric phenotypical data were available in 64 samples (51 nest samples and 17 single-specimen stray samples) with
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. For details see supplementary information SI1, SI2. Excluding single-specimen samples with unclear separation from
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, this material originated from
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(10 samples),
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(1), the Comores (1),
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(1),
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(7),
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(3), Kenia (1),
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(13),
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(3),
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(1),
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(5),
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(2),
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(1), Sri Lanka (1),
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(1), Tanzania (1), Tailand (4),
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(5).
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<emphasis id="EDA5EAE2FF9EFFC56B545CC7FB8932CE" bold="true" box="[847,1057,1688,1712]" pageId="15" pageNumber="128">Geographic range</emphasis>
. As a tramp species of putatively Southeast Asian origin this species is widely distributed over the tropical regions of the world. However, it has not been confirmed so far for South and Central America where
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<emphasis id="EDA5EAE2FF9EFFC56B9E5D43FBBB334A" box="[901,1043,1820,1844]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="128">C. obscurior</emphasis>
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is found. Occurrence in buildings in the temperate zone is so far not verified by voucher specimens.
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<emphasis id="EDA5EAE2FF9EFFC56B545D21FC1733E8" bold="true" box="[847,959,1918,1942]" pageId="15" pageNumber="128">Diagnosis</emphasis>
: --Worker (
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, Figs 2831, key). Very small and slightly smaller than
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, CS
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410
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µm. Head short, CL/CW 1.120. Anterocentral clypeal margin straight or slightly notched; central occipital margin usually straight or with a very weak concavity. Postocular distance large, PoOc/CL 0.440. Frons broad (FRS/CS 0.272), frontal carinae caudal of FRS level parallel (FL/FR 1.008). Eye medium-sized, EYE/CS 0.233. Scape slightly shorter than in
<taxonomicName id="18D14D73FF81FFDA6A4D5BE8FD5B35B1" authority=", SL" authorityName="SL" box="[598,755,439,463]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Cardiocondyla" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="16" pageNumber="129" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obscurior">
<emphasis id="EDA5EAE2FF81FFDA6A4D5BE8FD1735B1" box="[598,703,439,463]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="129">obscurior</emphasis>
, SL
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/ CS 0.772. Promesonotal plane in dorsal view without shoulders due to a strongly convex frontal margin and rather straight lateral margins (
<figureCitation id="47EA2A75FF81FFDA6A125846FDDB364C" box="[521,627,537,562]" captionStart="Figure 23" captionStartId="10.[151,215,1755,1777]" captionTargetBox="[151,1398,260,1705]" captionTargetPageId="10" captionText="Figure 23. Mesosoma in dorsal view.(A) Cardiocondyla obscurior, neotype, Nago / Okinawa, 3 June 2003; (B) Cardiocondyla shagrinata, paratype, South Konkan / India. Figure 2427. Cardiocondyla shagrinata, paratype, South Konkan / India. (24) head in dorsal view; (25) lateral view; (26) dorsal view; (27) head surface between inner eye margin and paramedian vertex. Figure 28. Cardiocondyla wroughtonii, Lundu / Malaysia, 27 May 2007. (28) head in dorsal view." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13194040" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13194040/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="129">Fig. 23A</figureCitation>
). Metanotal groove in lateral view deep (MGr/CS 3.65 %) and usually with steep anterior and posterior slopes. Propodeal spines longer than in
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<emphasis id="EDA5EAE2FF81FFDA69B25823FDBB36EA" box="[425,531,636,660]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="129">obscurior</emphasis>
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(SP/CS 0.193) and their bases more approached (SPBA/CS 0.278). Petiole narrower and slightly lower than in
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<emphasis id="EDA5EAE2FF81FFDA6A5958E1FD0536A8" box="[578,685,702,726]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="129">obscurior</emphasis>
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(PeW/ CS 0.277, PeH/CS 0.328), Axis of petiolar peduncle in lateral aspect deviating by 30° from the longitudinal axis of the petiole node. Postpetiole narrower and lower than in
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(PpW/CS 0.437, PpH/CS 0.303), the sternite anterolaterally with a rounded lobiform protrusion on each side which clearly elevates above the level of median surface of sternite; the surface of the sternite thus appearing deeply concave in frontal view. Whole head and mesosoma without any notable rugosity. Paramedian and lateral vertex with deep (sometimes shallower) foveolae of 1721 µm diameter which are frequently arranged in dense honey-comb arrangement and show an inner elevation around the hair bases of 69 µm diameter (
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); median vertex with slightly smaller and weaker foveolae, occasionally weakly foveolate-carinulate. Whole surface of mesosoma and waist densely foveolate-reticulate, the meshes with lower diameters than on vertex (
<figureCitation id="47EA2A75FF81FFDA69E95F51FDC23158" box="[498,618,1294,1318]" captionStart="Figure 2931" captionStartId="11.[189,253,1757,1779]" captionTargetBox="[189,1437,260,1707]" captionTargetPageId="11" captionText="Figure 2931. Cardiocondyla wroughtonii, Lundu / Malaysia, 27 May 2007.(29) lateral view; (30) dorsal view; (31) head surface between inner eye margin and paramedian vertex. Figure 3234. Cardiocondyla obscurior, neotype, Nago / Okinawa, 3 June 2003. (32) head in dorsal view; (33) lateral view; (34) dorsal view." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13194042" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13194042/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="129">Figs 29, 30</figureCitation>
). Pubescence on first gaster tergite moderately long and dilute (PLG/ CS 6.3 %, sqPDG 5.05). Color dimorphism. Light morph (76 % of samples): whole ant entirely light yellowish except for a diffuse brown band in the posterior half of 1
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gaster tergite; this band may be interrupted in the centre to form 2 separated lateral patches (as seen in Wheeler´s
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var.
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), PigG1 9.5 ± 8.2 [0, 45] % n= 108. Dark morph (24 % of samples): Head, mesosoma, waist, and appendages light yellowish brown; funicular club blackish brown; 1
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gaster tergite and sternite dark brown, the following segments substantially lighter, PigG1 86.8 ± 19.1 [55, 100] %, n=34.
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.
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<emphasis id="EDA5EAE2FF81FFDA6A225C85FD6F328C" box="[569,711,1754,1778]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="129">C. obscurior</emphasis>
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and the occurrence of a dark morph in
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restricts the use of pigmentation for species separation. Species hypotheses were formed in 84 samples of both species with
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individuals under exclusion of single-specimen samples. In the first step of analysis, the 15 characters CS, CL/CW, PoOc/CL, SL/CS, EYE/CS, FRS/ CS, SPBA/CS, SP/CS, PeW/CS, PeH/CS, PPW/CS, PpH/CS, MGr/CS, sqPDG and PLG/CS were run in the exploratory data analyses NC-Ward, NC-NMDS.kmeans and PCA. Hypotheses were fixed in the controlling LDA when the classifications in the three exploratory data analyses coincided whereas samples with controversial classification were run as wild-cards. In the next run of the LDA the corrected classifications were accepted but now the type samples were run as wild-cards. The posterior probabilities for allocation to the
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the types of
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the types of
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. The posterior probabilities for allocation to the
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cluster were
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the types of
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. As a third step, a stepwise character reduction to CS, CL/CW, SL/CS, EYE/CS, FRS/ CS, SP/CS and PPW/CS was performed.This increased the agreement of the exploratory data analyses with the final species hypothesis determined by the controlling LDA to 96.4 % in NC-Ward, 98.8 % in NC-NMDS.kmeans, 98.8 % in NC-part.kmeans (
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) and to 98.8 % and in the PCA (
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). This is a mean error in four forms of analysis of only 1.8 %. In laboratory experiments, males of
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<emphasis id="EDA5EAE2FF81FFDA6B285E77FC163041" box="[819,958,1063,1087]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="129">C. obscurior</emphasis>
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and gynes of
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produced hybrids but the opposite mating combination so far not (K. Yamauchi pers. comm. 2000). Hybridisation is supposed to be rare or absent under natural conditions as concluded from the strong separation of the clusters. However, the available sample size, in particular the low number of 2.4 workers per sample, makes assessment of hybridization frequency difficult. There is so far only one suggestion on a possible hybridization: the only sample of
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with a gaster pigmentation corresponding to light morph of
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(SaNo 1072
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) was allocated to the
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cluster with p=0.9456 if run as a wild-card in a LDA of the reduced 7-characters data set and was placed by the PCA in a marginal position (
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). It was found under the bark of a tree in
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height which supports the determination by the LDA.
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<emphasis id="EDA5EAE2FF81FFDA6B325C6AFCD63233" bold="true" box="[809,894,1589,1613]" pageId="16" pageNumber="129">Biology</emphasis>
. In contrast to its sibling species
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<emphasis id="EDA5EAE2FF81FFDA6CF35C69FAD83230" box="[1256,1392,1590,1614]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="129">C. obscurior</emphasis>
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, it was reported to nest near to or on the ground; it was found in hollow stems of dead
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grasses (Okinawa), in a dead twig on the ground (New Orleans/
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), between layers of
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leaves (
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), in litter (Sulawesi), and under leaves in a silk patch (
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). Nest populations are polygynous and adopt alien queens. There is polyphenism showing winged and wingless (ergatoid) males. The wingless males have sickle-shaped mandibles used to kill male callows or pupae whereas they besmear adult rivals with a secretion that elicits worker aggression.
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