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<mods:title>First description of the worker caste of Nylanderiasmythiesii (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Wachkoo, Aijaz Ahmad</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Bharti, Himender</mods:namePart>
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<mods:date>2014</mods:date>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1163</mods:identifier>
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<taxonomicName authority="Jerdon, 1851" authorityName="Jerdon" authorityYear="1851" class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Nylanderia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Nylanderia assimilis" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="assimilis">Nylanderia assimilis (Jerdon, 1851)</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Formica" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Formica assimilis" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="assimilis">Formica assimilis</taxonomicName>
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Jerdon, 1851 -
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<bibRefCitation author="Jerdon, T. C." journalOrPublisher="Madras Journal of Literature and Science" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" pagination="103 - 127" title="A catalogue of the species of ants found in southern India" volume="17" year="1851">Jerdon 1851</bibRefCitation>
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: 125 (w.) INDIA. Combination in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Prenolepis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Prenolepis" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Prenolepis</taxonomicName>
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:
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<bibRefCitation author="Dalla Torre, C. G. de" journalOrPublisher="Lipsiae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" title="Catalogus Hymenopterorum, hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus 7" year="1893">Dalla Torre 1893</bibRefCitation>
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: 177; in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Paratrechina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paratrechina (Nylanderia)" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Nylanderia">Paratrechina (Nylanderia)</taxonomicName>
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:
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<bibRefCitation author="Emery, C." journalOrPublisher="Genera Insectorum" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" pagination="1 - 302" title="Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae" volume="183" year="1925">Emery 1925</bibRefCitation>
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: 219; in
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<taxonomicName class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Nylanderia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Nylanderia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Nylanderia</taxonomicName>
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:
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<bibRefCitation author="LaPolla, J. S." journalOrPublisher="Systematic Entomology" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" pagination="118 - 131" title="Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Prenolepis genus-group of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)" volume="35" year="2010">LaPolla et al. 2010</bibRefCitation>
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: 127. Species inquirenda
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" type="notes">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1163">Notes</paragraph>
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The original descriptions is exceedingly inadequate and very little is known about the collection of Jerdon.
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<bibRefCitation author="Dalla Torre, C. G. de" journalOrPublisher="Lipsiae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" title="Catalogus Hymenopterorum, hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus 7" year="1893">Dalla Torre (1893)</bibRefCitation>
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transferred it from
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Formica" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Formica" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Formica</taxonomicName>
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to
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Prenolepis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Prenolepis" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Prenolepis</taxonomicName>
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, possibly because the body size, presence of large eyes and scattered white hairs all over the body mentioned in description mostly match the generic diagnosis of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Prenolepis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Prenolepis" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Prenolepis</taxonomicName>
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; subsequently
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<bibRefCitation author="Emery, C." journalOrPublisher="Genera Insectorum" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" pagination="1 - 302" title="Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae" volume="183" year="1925">Emery (1925)</bibRefCitation>
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by implication transferred it to
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<taxonomicName class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Nylanderia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Nylanderia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Nylanderia</taxonomicName>
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. Most of the taxa by Jerdon are invalid and have been synonymized or treated as incertae sedis. From the original description it could easily be argued that
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<taxonomicName class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Nylanderia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Nylanderia assimilis" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="assimilis">Nylanderia assimilis</taxonomicName>
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is yet another synonym of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Paratrechina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paratrechina longicornis" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="longicornis">Paratrechina longicornis</taxonomicName>
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(Latreille, 1802), as the combination of characters mentioned by
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<bibRefCitation author="Jerdon, T. C." journalOrPublisher="Madras Journal of Literature and Science" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" pagination="103 - 127" title="A catalogue of the species of ants found in southern India" volume="17" year="1851">Jerdon (1851)</bibRefCitation>
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: large eyes, white hairs, body color and size are present only in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Paratrechina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paratrechina longicornis" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="longicornis">Paratrechina longicornis</taxonomicName>
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of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Prenolepis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Prenolepis" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Prenolepis</taxonomicName>
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genus group from India. Moreover,
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<bibRefCitation author="Jerdon, T. C." journalOrPublisher="Madras Journal of Literature and Science" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" pagination="103 - 127" title="A catalogue of the species of ants found in southern India" volume="17" year="1851">Jerdon (1851)</bibRefCitation>
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mentions it to be a frequent visitor of flowers, which also agrees with opportunistic feeding behavior of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Paratrechina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paratrechina longicornis" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="longicornis">Paratrechina longicornis</taxonomicName>
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. Further, a Ph.D. thesis has been done on
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<taxonomicName family="Formicidae" lsidName="" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" rank="family">Formicidae</taxonomicName>
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of Malabar, India, the type locality of
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<taxonomicName class="Hexapoda" family="Formicidae" genus="Nylanderia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Nylanderia assimilis" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="assimilis">Nylanderia assimilis</taxonomicName>
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, but it could not be found.
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<bibRefCitation author="Bingham, C. T" journalOrPublisher="Taylor and Francis, London" pageId="0" pageNumber="1163" title="The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera. Ants and Cuckoo-Wasps. 2" year="1903">Bingham (1903)</bibRefCitation>
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also excluded it from his study. Therefore, authors argue for its doubtful status and consider it species inquirenda.
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