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Shattuck
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(
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704CFFAAFF73EA618B4CFB8F" box="[151,327,1076,1098]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Iridomyrmex bigi</emphasis>
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, fig. 9.
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, fig. 9.
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704CFFAAFD5DEA06895DFBAD" bold="true" box="[697,854,1107,1128]" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">New synonym.</emphasis>
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worker from
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,
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<collectingRegion id="BD48F809704CFFAAFB2FEAC08F97FB68" box="[1227,1436,1173,1197]" country="Australia" name="Northern Territory" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Northern Territory</collectingRegion>
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,
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, examined; ANIC,
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).
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704CFFAAFD83EB548971FADC" box="[615,890,1281,1305]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Iridomyrmex variscapus</emphasis>
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Shattuck
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<typeStatus id="A0378849704CFFAAFC13EB548E54FADC" box="[1015,1119,1281,1305]" pageId="50" pageNumber="51" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
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worker from
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,
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<collectingRegion id="BD48F809704CFFAAFF73EB708B10FAF8" box="[151,283,1317,1341]" country="Australia" name="Queensland" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Queensland</collectingRegion>
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(ANIC,
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, examined).
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<typeStatus id="A0378849704CFFAAFD3DEB738941FAFB" box="[729,842,1318,1342]" pageId="50" pageNumber="51" type="paratype">Paratypes</typeStatus>
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(ANIC,
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,
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, examined; BMNH,
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; MCZC,
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).
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Worker Description.
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</emphasis>
|
||
Posterior margin of head strongly concave; erect setae on posterior margin in fullface view set in a row; sides of head noticeably convex; erect genal setae absent from sides of head in full-face view (one to a few small setae may be present near mandibular insertion). Number of ocelli two; in full-face view, eyes set above midpoint of head capsule; in profile, eye set anteriad of head capsule; eye elongate. Frontal carinae convex; antennal scape surpassing posterior margin of head by 1–2 x its diameter. Erect setae on scape present on outside of antennal scape only; prominence on anteromedial clypeal margin projecting as triangular spur; mandible regularly triangular with oblique basal margin; long, curved setae on venter of head capsule absent.
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704CFFAAFAFEE8138F90F998" bold="true" box="[1306,1435,1606,1629]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Mesosoma.</emphasis>
|
||
Pronotum moderately and evenly curved over its length. Erect pronotal setae numerous (12 or more), short and bristly. Mesonotum sinuous. Erect mesonotal setae numerous (12 or more), short and bristly. Mesothoracic spiracles always prominent as small, vertical protuberances; propodeal dorsum protuberant; placement of propodeal spiracle mesad, more than its diameter away from propodeal declivity; propodeal angle present as a bluntly defined right angle, the dorsal and declivitous propodeal faces never separated by a carina. Erect propodeal setae numerous (12 or more), short and bristly.
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704CFFAAFE1EE948885BF8F3" bold="true" box="[506,592,1821,1846]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Petiole.</emphasis>
|
||
Dorsum of node acuminate; node thin, scale-like, orientation more-or-less vertical.
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704CFFAAFF1FE9148B47F89F" bold="true" box="[251,332,1857,1882]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Gaster.</emphasis>
|
||
Non-marginal erect setae of gaster present on first gastral tergite; marginal erect setae of gaster present on first tergite.
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704CFFAAFE45E930888CF8BB" bold="true" box="[417,647,1893,1918]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">General characters.</emphasis>
|
||
Allometric differences between workers of same nest absent. Colour foreparts light brick-red to dark crimson, gaster brown with weak bluish to purplish iridescence in light-coloured specimens. Colour of erect setae light brown.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<caption id="2BF36663704DFFABFF73EA908989FB3F" ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5287849" ID-Zenodo-Dep="5287849" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5287849/files/figure.png" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" startId="51.[151,250,1221,1244]" targetBox="[151,1436,153,1199]" targetPageId="51">
|
||
<paragraph id="7F3336EB704DFFABFF73EA908989FB3F" blockId="51.[150,1436,1221,1274]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFF73EA908B14FB19" bold="true" box="[151,287,1221,1244]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">FIGURE 17.</emphasis>
|
||
<taxonomicName id="B88C4D68704DFFABFEC1EA938BDFFB19" box="[293,468,1222,1244]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Iridomyrmex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bigi">
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFEC1EA938BDFFB19" box="[293,468,1222,1244]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">Iridomyrmex bigi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(holotype, Henbury Crater, NT, ANIC32-007345): A. Front of head; B. Side of body; C. Top of body; D. Distribution of material examined (A. Noble, www.antweb.org).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
<paragraph id="7F3336EB704DFFABFF23EB3F8E4EFA60" blockId="51.[151,1436,1385,1949]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFF23EB3F8B76FA47" bold="true" box="[199,381,1386,1410]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" reason="1">Measurements.</emphasis>
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFE62EB3F8BDCFA47" box="[390,471,1386,1410]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">Worker</emphasis>
|
||
(n = 16)
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFDDBEB3F8853FA44" box="[575,600,1386,1409]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">—</emphasis>
|
||
CI 94–105; EI 30–37; EL 0.54–0.62; EW 0.28–0.36; HL 1.60–1.91; HW 1.50–1.96; ML 0.82–1.03; PpH 0.23–0.29; PpL 0.85–0.98; SI 78–97; SL 1.38–1.61.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="37966560704DFFABFF23EBE489D3F858" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" type="discussion">
|
||
<paragraph id="7F3336EB704DFFABFF23EBE48ED0F890" blockId="51.[151,1436,1385,1949]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFF23EBE48B44FA0F" bold="true" box="[199,335,1457,1482]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" reason="1">Comments.</emphasis>
|
||
<taxonomicName id="B88C4D68704DFFABFEBEEBE78828FA0F" box="[346,547,1458,1482]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Iridomyrmex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bigi">
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFEBEEBE78828FA0F" box="[346,547,1458,1482]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">Iridomyrmex bigi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is a very odd-looking
|
||
<taxonomicName id="B88C4D68704DFFABFCD1EBE789CEFA0F" box="[821,965,1458,1482]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Iridomyrmex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFCD1EBE789CEFA0F" box="[821,965,1458,1482]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">Iridomyrmex</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
: the combination of the very large eye, pointed node and the general confinement of the erect setae to the anterior margin of the antennal scape make it impossible to confuse this with any other ant in the genus. However, clypeal and mesosomal characters and preliminary molecular data place this ant close to the meat ants (
|
||
<taxonomicName id="B88C4D68704DFFABFCD4E84B89B0F9F0" authorityName="Lowne" authorityYear="1865" baseAuthorityName="F. Smith" box="[816,955,1566,1589]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Iridomyrmex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="purpureus">
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFCD4E84B89B0F9F0" box="[816,955,1566,1589]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">I. purpureus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
species-complex), albeit as a sister to this complex.
|
||
<taxonomicName id="B88C4D68704DFFABFEE2E8148BC3F99C" authority="Heterick & Shattuck, 2011" authorityName="Heterick & Shattuck" authorityYear="2011" box="[262,456,1601,1625]" genus="Shattuck" pageId="51" pageNumber="170" rank="genus" status="gen. nov.">
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="1B1D4B1A704DFFABFEE2E8148BC3F99C" author="Shattuck, S. O." box="[262,456,1601,1625]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" pagination="1303 - 1325" refId="ref112426" refString="Shattuck, S. O. (1993 b) Revision of the Iridomyrmex calvus species-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 7, 1303 - 1325." type="journal article" year="1993">Shattuck (1993b)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
separated the form
|
||
<taxonomicName id="B88C4D68704DFFABFD4CE8178931F99C" authorityName="Shattuck" authorityYear="1993" box="[680,826,1602,1625]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Iridomyrmex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="variscapus">
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFD4CE81788BAF99C" box="[680,689,1602,1625]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">I</emphasis>
|
||
.
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFD24E8178931F99C" box="[704,826,1602,1625]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">variscapus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
from
|
||
<taxonomicName id="B88C4D68704DFFABFC9BE81789C8F99F" box="[895,963,1602,1626]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Iridomyrmex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bigi">
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFC9BE8178983F99C" box="[895,904,1602,1625]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">I</emphasis>
|
||
.
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFC73E81789C8F99F" box="[919,963,1602,1626]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">bigi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
on the basis of the paler ground colour of the head and mesosoma and the colour of the scape in workers. However, when the workers from these two taxa used in the revision of the
|
||
<taxonomicName id="B88C4D68704DFFABFE2AE8DF8852F964" authorityName="Lowne" authorityYear="1865" baseAuthorityName="F. Smith" box="[462,601,1674,1697]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Iridomyrmex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="purpureus">
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFE2AE8DF8BDCF964" box="[462,471,1674,1697]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">I</emphasis>
|
||
.
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFE03E8DF8852F964" box="[487,601,1674,1697]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">purpureus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
group were revisited in the current project, the variability in colour was found to be in conformity with intraspecific variation seen in other
|
||
<taxonomicName id="B88C4D68704DFFABFC60E8FB8E78F900" box="[900,1139,1709,1734]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Iridomyrmex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="undetermined">
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFC60E8FB8E1EF903" box="[900,1045,1710,1734]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">Iridomyrmex</emphasis>
|
||
species.
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
The centre of the antennal scape is much lighter than its edges in both taxa, and the flagellum is generally paler than the scape. The workers of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="B88C4D68704DFFABFF73E8A38B21F8C8" authorityName="Shattuck" authorityYear="1993" box="[151,298,1782,1805]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Iridomyrmex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="variscapus">
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFF73E8A38AABF8C8" box="[151,160,1782,1805]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">I</emphasis>
|
||
.
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFF55E8A38B21F8C8" box="[177,298,1782,1805]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">variscapus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, all of which come from a single nest in Sandringham,
|
||
<collectingRegion id="BD48F809704DFFABFC52E8A08E36F8C8" box="[950,1085,1781,1805]" country="Australia" name="Queensland" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">Queensland</collectingRegion>
|
||
, share the same structural and setae patterns as
|
||
<taxonomicName id="B88C4D68704DFFABFEB6E94F8B9EF8F7" box="[338,405,1818,1842]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Iridomyrmex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bigi">
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFEB6E94F8B50F8F4" box="[338,347,1818,1841]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">I</emphasis>
|
||
.
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFE8DE94F8B9EF8F7" box="[361,405,1818,1842]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">bigi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, and the morphometric measurements and indices used by
|
||
<taxonomicName id="B88C4D68704DFFABFBC2E94C8E83F8F4" authority="Heterick & Shattuck, 2011" authorityName="Heterick & Shattuck" authorityYear="2011" box="[1062,1160,1817,1841]" genus="Shattuck" pageId="51" pageNumber="170" rank="genus" status="gen. nov.">Shattuck</taxonomicName>
|
||
all overlap with those of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="B88C4D68704DFFABFF73E96B8AD1F893" box="[151,218,1854,1878]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Iridomyrmex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bigi">
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFF73E96B8AABF890" box="[151,160,1854,1877]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">I</emphasis>
|
||
.
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFF4AE96B8AD1F893" box="[174,218,1854,1878]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">bigi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
<taxonomicName id="B88C4D68704DFFABFF0CE96B8BF3F890" authorityName="Shattuck" authorityYear="1993" box="[232,504,1854,1878]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Iridomyrmex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="variscapus">
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFF0CE96B8BF3F890" box="[232,504,1854,1878]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">Iridomyrmex variscapus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
therefore becomes a junior synonym of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="B88C4D68704DFFABFC5AE96B8E0AF893" box="[958,1025,1854,1878]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Iridomyrmex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bigi">
|
||
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9704DFFABFC5AE96B8E0AF893" box="[958,1025,1854,1878]" italics="true" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">I. bigi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
in this monograph.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="7F3336EB704DFFABFF23E93489D3F858" blockId="51.[151,1436,1385,1949]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52">
|
||
This appears to be a rare species, and apart from
|
||
<specimenCount id="698AFD62704DFFABFD00E9378969F8BC" box="[740,866,1889,1913]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" type="worker">one worker</specimenCount>
|
||
(without collection data) supplied by A. Andersen, no additional material has come to light since
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="1B1D4B1A704DFFABFD7FE9D08964F858" author="Shattuck, S. O." box="[667,879,1925,1949]" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" pagination="1303 - 1325" refId="ref112426" refString="Shattuck, S. O. (1993 b) Revision of the Iridomyrmex calvus species-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 7, 1303 - 1325." type="journal article" year="1993">Shattuck’s (1993b)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
revision.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
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