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<taxonomicName id="5637AE86D9F7EA00CA1BD88A9F89C3BA" ID-CoL="7BMWD" authority="F. Smith, 1861" authorityName="F. Smith" authorityYear="1861" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Technomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Technomyrmex albipes" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="35" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="albipes">Technomyrmex albipes (F. Smith, 1861)</taxonomicName>
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Figure 3A, B, C
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<taxonomicName id="6C80B2A5C539F4AA0A288CE35BE382D9" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Formica" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Formica (Tapinoma) albipes" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="35" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="albipes" subGenus="Tapinoma">Formica (Tapinoma) albipes</taxonomicName>
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Smith, 1861: 38 (w.) Syntype worker, Indonesia: Sulawesi, Tond, (A.R. Wallace), CASENT0102952, Indomalaya, (OXUM), (image examined);
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<bibRefCitation id="4D2C4EC4519E4786A649443BCBB22184" author="Forel, A" journalOrPublisher="Hachette et Cie, Paris" pageId="2" pageNumber="37" title="Les Formicides. [part]. In: Grandidier A (Ed.) Histoire physique, naturelle, et politique de Madagascar. Volume XX. Histoire naturelle des Hymenopteres. Deuxieme partie (28 e fascicule)." year="1891">Forel 1891</bibRefCitation>
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: 98 (q.);
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<bibRefCitation id="6DE582E4FD390DDCA30D7C0156433792" author="Forel, A" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin de la Societe Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles" pageId="3" pageNumber="38" pagination="1 - 22" title="Fourmis de Ceylan et d'Egypte recoltees par le Prof. E. Bugnion. Lasiuscarniolicus. Fourmis de Kerguelen. Pseudandrie? Strongylognathustestaceus." volume="44" year="1908">Forel 1908</bibRefCitation>
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: 21 (ergatoid m.);
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<bibRefCitation id="E853DC1C76F40C2FDFEA51008931470E" author="Karavaiev, V" journalOrPublisher="Treubia" pageId="3" pageNumber="38" pagination="413 - 445" title="Ameisen aus dem Indo-Australischen Gebiet." volume="8" year="1926">Karavaiev 1926</bibRefCitation>
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: 441 (m.);
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<bibRefCitation id="EF05F59720227C874EC30F395705A8C3" author="Wheeler, GC" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington" pageId="3" pageNumber="38" pagination="169 - 210" title="The ant larvae of the subfamily Dolichoderinae." volume="53" year="1951">Wheeler and Wheeler 1951</bibRefCitation>
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: 205 (l.);
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<bibRefCitation id="0933DA60E5003C36014F3ED91FE89DFC" author="Crozier, RH" journalOrPublisher="Caryologia" pageId="2" pageNumber="37" pagination="241 - 259" title="Cytotaxonomic studies on some Australian dolichoderine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.1080/00087114.1968.10796302" volume="21" year="1969">Crozier 1969</bibRefCitation>
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: 245 (k.). Combination in
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<taxonomicName id="6CFA65D9742822AC384F568DAC3F044C" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Tapinoma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Tapinoma" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="35" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Tapinoma</taxonomicName>
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: Mayr, 1863: 455; in
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<taxonomicName id="048D072E28EE09630FCF8EA3F5A43E27" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Technomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Technomyrmex" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="35" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Technomyrmex</taxonomicName>
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:
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<bibRefCitation id="375F1B65BF876EA488F17ABFA2595C09" author="Emery, C" journalOrPublisher="Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftliche Zoologie" pageId="2" pageNumber="37" pagination="378 - 412" title="Ueber den sogenannten Kaumagen einiger Ameisen." volume="46" year="1888">Emery 1888</bibRefCitation>
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: 392. Senior synonym of
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<taxonomicName id="92574E0ADF1301D2B814A692CF295377" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Technomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Technomyrmex nigrum" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="35" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nigrum">Technomyrmex nigrum</taxonomicName>
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:
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<bibRefCitation id="9E383401014A3E9B230533660CB0626A" author="Mayr, G" journalOrPublisher="Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale" pageId="3" pageNumber="38" pagination="133 - 155" title="Formicidae Borneenses collectae a J. Doria et O. Beccari in territorio Sarawak annis 1865 - 1867." volume="2" year="1872">Mayr 1872</bibRefCitation>
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: 147;
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<bibRefCitation id="32C736BD8473B665F387A5F865462B0D" author="Mayr, G" journalOrPublisher="Journal des Museum Godeffroy" pageId="3" pageNumber="38" pagination="56 - 115" title="Die australischen Formiciden." volume="12" year="1876">Mayr 1876</bibRefCitation>
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: 83; of
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<taxonomicName id="52795833F6C2DB7E3C3CA075C51E8509" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Technomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Technomyrmex albitarse" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="35" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="albitarse">Technomyrmex albitarse</taxonomicName>
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: Emer 1893: 249; of
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<taxonomicName id="2425AF1129488ECA39CE8B0FFAFF8A4A" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Technomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Technomyrmex bruneipes" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="35" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bruneipes">Technomyrmex bruneipes</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName id="4CFFC9797FC33DFFFDD1CF96AFFB5D56" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Technomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Technomyrmex detorquens" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="35" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="detorquens">Technomyrmex detorquens</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName id="C2857DD4844695C805B4CF6F5FF7E0BF" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Technomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Technomyrmex forticulus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="35" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="forticulus">Technomyrmex forticulus</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName id="FAC782EACAB8B77600ED5E521A8358A9" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Technomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Technomyrmex wedda" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="35" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="wedda">Technomyrmex wedda</taxonomicName>
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:
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<bibRefCitation id="15CDAC53465D9A89194CA71A3FACE401" author="Bolton, B" journalOrPublisher="Contributions of the American Entomological Institute" pageId="2" pageNumber="37" pagination="1 - 149" title="Taxonomy of the Dolichoderine ant genus Technomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) based on the worker caste." volume="35" year="2007">Bolton 2007</bibRefCitation>
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: 68.
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<paragraph id="0A530BFF2AC5118CD088B5E4CCB863D4" pageId="0" pageNumber="35">Description.</paragraph>
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Worker. Measurements: TL: 2.40-2.90; HL: 0.56-0.63; HW: 0.52-0.58; SL: 0.48-0.58; PW: 0.35-0.42; WL: 0.66-0.78. Indices: CI: 87-95; SI: 91-102; OI: 24-27; EPI: 70-88; DTI: 110-124 (n = 50, from
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<bibRefCitation id="5A0EC95CABE75D81EAB0E8718E1E353E" author="Bolton, B" journalOrPublisher="Contributions of the American Entomological Institute" pageId="2" pageNumber="37" pagination="1 - 149" title="Taxonomy of the Dolichoderine ant genus Technomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) based on the worker caste." volume="35" year="2007">Bolton 2007</bibRefCitation>
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).
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<paragraph id="920D4F0479564A0B63B9DD6C6A9991FD" pageId="0" pageNumber="35">Head. Anterior clypeal margin with a feeble, shallow median indentation; head in full-face view with a small shallow indentation medially and strongly convex sides; eyes of moderate size with approximately nine ommatidia in longest row (OI: 24-27), located in front of midlength, with outer margins just fail to break outlines of head sides. Mesosoma. In profile the mesonotal outline evenly curved; propodeal dorsum making a distinct obtuse angle with declivity in profile. Pilosity. Frontal carina with two pairs of setae; pronotum with 1-3 pairs; mesonotum bare or with one pair (usually none); propodeal dorsum bare; lateral margins of propodeal declivity with one or two pairs, usually with one pair above spiracle, another pair higher up; gastral tergites 1-4 each with abundant scattered long setae (length of setae relatively less than eye diameter or even subequal) on sclerites. Sculpture. Body sculpture finely and densely reticulate-punctate, general appearance dull. Colour. Head, mesosoma, petiole and gaster black-brown to black; tarsi of mid- and hind legs yellow.</paragraph>
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Figure 3.
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<taxonomicName id="91E46FB3A53CC679EAC73FF1EB9E1E03" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Technomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Technomyrmex albipes" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="35" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="albipes">Technomyrmex albipes</taxonomicName>
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, worker, CASENT0178469. A, body in profile B body in dorsal view C head in full-face view, images from www.AntWeb.org.
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<paragraph id="E528C5B1907313DD93002C035DB832E0" pageId="0" pageNumber="35">Material examined.</paragraph>
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KSA, Eastern Province, Hofuf,
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<normalizedToken id="0B6803CA9056E42CEFA1211F3BC14E95" originalValue="Büttiker">Buettiker</normalizedToken>
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leg.) (1 m) (WMLC).
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<paragraph id="2B63E37BDE13A04ABA4533E2BEB5A41A" pageId="0" pageNumber="35">Previous records.</paragraph>
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KSA, Eastern Province, Al Qatif,
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, 30 m, 14.iv.1984, (C. A. Collingwood leg.) (1 m); (Collingwood & van Harten 2001); Yemen: Al Kawd (misspelled AI Kowd), vii.1999,
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, LT, (Van Harten & Al Haruri leg.); Lahj, iv.1999,
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, MT, (Van Harten & Sallam leg.);
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, 2250 m, 24.xi.1998, (Van Harten leg.);
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, V.1998,
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,
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, LT (Van Harten & Awad leg.) (
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<bibRefCitation id="850AC49248260EE1A7585E380AEA2AF7" author="Collingwood, CA" journalOrPublisher="Fauna of Saudi Arabia" pageId="2" pageNumber="37" pagination="230 - 301" title="Hymenoptera: Family Formicidae of Saudi Arabia." volume="7" year="1985">Collingwood 1985</bibRefCitation>
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); Al Kadan, vi.2003,
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,
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, LT, (Van Harten & T. Abdul Haq leg.) (Collingwood & van Harten 2005).
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<taxonomicName id="BDC851301ADA8DCC08A6F02B2C1129A6" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Technomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Technomyrmex albipes" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="35" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="albipes">Technomyrmex albipes</taxonomicName>
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nests and forages in and beneath fallen wood and rocks, in tree trunks, in leaf litter, in twigs, on the forest floor, on low vegetation, and into the canopy (
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<bibRefCitation id="C55679884AF9ACA6B7B2C8B14D9A2640" author="Bolton, B" journalOrPublisher="Contributions of the American Entomological Institute" pageId="2" pageNumber="37" pagination="1 - 149" title="Taxonomy of the Dolichoderine ant genus Technomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) based on the worker caste." volume="35" year="2007">Bolton 2007</bibRefCitation>
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). The species is known to feed on honeydew of a broad range of sap sucking attended hemipterans including the mealybug vectors of pineapple wilt disease (
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<bibRefCitation id="DBBB882A5B5184CDDD435CB698DD2211" author="Sulaiman, SFM" journalOrPublisher="Acta Horticulturae" pageId="3" pageNumber="38" pagination="475 - 484" title="Impact of weed management on ant density and fruit yield in the control of pineapple wilt disease." url="https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1997.425.51" volume="425" year="1997">Sulaiman 1997</bibRefCitation>
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).
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<subSubSection id="9DE6F69F50CC7791DF8FB9327DDB663F" pageId="0" pageNumber="35" type="geographic range">
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<paragraph id="A68942815CCDEBBC6FEDD999DD9B4B79" pageId="0" pageNumber="35">Geographic range.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="6188AB86183D782F6883A9CF7D7AD86E" pageId="0" pageNumber="35">
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A successful introduced species that has spread worldwide including the Australian, the Afrotropical, and the Malagasy regions (
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<bibRefCitation id="D466CF44586F57555C3C8A4559BB10A5" author="Bolton, B" journalOrPublisher="Contributions of the American Entomological Institute" pageId="2" pageNumber="37" pagination="1 - 149" title="Taxonomy of the Dolichoderine ant genus Technomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) based on the worker caste." volume="35" year="2007">Bolton 2007</bibRefCitation>
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).
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