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<treatment id="927947AC11D07652B7AD032B48327382" ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6226764" ID-GBIF-Taxon="100122220" ID-Zenodo-Dep="6226764" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:927947AC11D07652B7AD032B48327382" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/927947AC11D07652B7AD032B48327382" lastPageNumber="25" pageNumber="24">
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<paragraph id="66DD7F729C1D6D5A845FB7D8ADB774D5" pageNumber="24">
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The status of
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<taxonomicName id="A3A2517C4746BCE31001BAF27ABBBA47" ID-CoL="VN9" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:2338" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ancyridris" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Ancyridris Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="24" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Ancyridris</taxonomicName>
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Wheeler
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<subSubSection id="D89358184FAF0A01B16CC69C5068C5D5" type="synonymic_list">
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<paragraph id="1CA3907A6D18C6CE4A692F2B1E3EDB00" pageNumber="24">
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<taxonomicName id="0C961196303877558F77CE0C0B64193F" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:2338" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ancyridris" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Ancyridris Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="24" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Ancyridris</taxonomicName>
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Wheeler, 1935: 1. Type species (by monotypy):
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<taxonomicName id="46CFC8DB9D725F78A3425F3841ADDC45" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25222" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ancyridris" genus.outerRound="1" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Ancyridris polyrhachioides Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="24" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="polyrhachioides">A. polyrhachioides Wheeler</taxonomicName>
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, 1935: 2 (Mt Misim, PAPUA NEW GUINEA).
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<paragraph id="B1B0159D2769C6D5BB2B5FD3BEEBFCBC" pageNumber="24">
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<taxonomicName id="598E5839A65A379C39E8231169A0F678" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25222" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ancyridris" genus.outerRound="1" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Ancyridris polyrhachioides Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="24" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="polyrhachioides">A. polyrhachioides Wheeler</taxonomicName>
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, 1935: 2, fig. 1, a-c; Mt. Misim, PAPUA NEW GUINEA.
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<paragraph id="F338C9E429525D55ED341239E5F63913" pageNumber="24">
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<taxonomicName id="50123238BE3D68A25B944CF2E818280B" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25223" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ancyridris" genus.outerRound="1" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Ancyridris rupicapra (Stitz)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="24" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rupicapra">A. rupicapra (Stitz)</taxonomicName>
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, 1938: 99, fig. 1, a-d; 'DEUTSCH NEU-GUINEA' (
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<taxonomicName id="50C74F6E8DB81CEB4F361EB000D48F4B" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:239550" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole (Pheidolacanthinus) Smith" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="24" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Pheidolacanthinus">Pheidole (Pheidolacanthinus)</taxonomicName>
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(sic!)
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<taxonomicName id="238C0650E7CDED090AD8FE652197912A" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:133616" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Pheidole" genus.completionEvidence="missing" genus.completionRound="1" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Pheidole (Pheidolacanthinus) rupicapra Stitz" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="24" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rupicapra">rupicapra</taxonomicName>
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) (Combination: Bolton, 1995: 62).
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<subSubSection id="DAF6AEDA1E6FCBD9D5CE0D5D54BF52DE" type="discussion">
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<paragraph id="AA6912954AD795D0CC174A4D673AEC63" pageNumber="24">
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<taxonomicName id="5516F1A65AB338771F85EDA1807D60DA" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:2338" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ancyridris" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Ancyridris Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="24" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Ancyridris</taxonomicName>
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(Figs 19, 20) is the only putatively endemic ant genus known from New Guinea. It was provisionally cited as a junior synonym of
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<taxonomicName id="9C8D23850220FCE336FFA3EDE5D2A452" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:24913" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Lordomyrma Emery" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="24" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Lordomyrma</taxonomicName>
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by Brown (1973: 178), but subsequently listed by him with generic status (Brown, 2000: 47). The suggested synonymy was not followed by Bolton (2003, et al.), and is declined here. Recent studies investigating DNA affinities among a number of myrmicine ants could indicate that the
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<taxonomicName id="BBE8A87E6F869A1C58CE9BA465F4F411" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:2338" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ancyridris" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Ancyridris Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="24" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Ancyridris</taxonomicName>
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species comprise a sister group to the rump of
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<taxonomicName id="3C8840CEDE3CF47FCD059AF52A010649" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:24913" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Lordomyrma Emery" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="24" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Lordomyrma</taxonomicName>
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(Lucky, Sarnat & Ward pers.coms). Its species could, however, be considered a lineage within the
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<taxonomicName id="B15E5E856507AF0AA4FD92E2E8C4D642" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:24913" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Lordomyrma Emery" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="24" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Lordomyrma clade</taxonomicName>
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.
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<subSubSection id="25D687189D6AF3A494DF648BB94F11FC" type="description">
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<paragraph id="4D4C799E00CB17558C46CDAD01E76E41" lastPageNumber="25" pageNumber="24">
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The genus is singularly morphologically distinctive and surprisingly species-rich, yet its taxa are structurally only modestly interspecifically diversified.
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<taxonomicName id="C016AED2186EFF77FAF9B154404A662B" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:2338" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ancyridris" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Ancyridris Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="24" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Ancyridris</taxonomicName>
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appears to be limited to elevations above about 1,500 m. in the New Guinean cordillera, often at altitudes above those where ants are otherwise generally well represented. It includes a compact set of at least six undescribed species (
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<collectionCode id="D32707B6DD3C6CD1EEB131C0A8452B23" collectionName="Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Canberra City, CSIRO, Australian National Insect Collection">ANIC</collectionCode>
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) in addition to
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<taxonomicName id="D743BFFBE46A91B176F85080D59DCA4A" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:251616" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" genus.outerRound="1" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Lordomyrma polyrhachioides" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="24" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="polyrhachioides">L. polyrhachioides</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName id="CCC2F90F35EB97F6FC1909C20E50CC65" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:251619" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" genus.outerRound="1" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Lordomyrma rupicapra" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="24" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rupicapra">L. rupicapra</taxonomicName>
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. Its members are very alike, with considerable interspecific size variation; usually largely blackish-brown in color (though the 'red goat',
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<taxonomicName id="D8F172EAE9B9FC09762A1FD3D227D52D" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25223" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ancyridris" genus.outerRound="1" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Ancyridris rupicapra (Stitz)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="24" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rupicapra">A. rupicapra</taxonomicName>
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, is reddish-brown) and generally strongly shining, with at most very weak sculpturation, sparse pilosity and strongly developed, elongate, divergent,
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<pageStartToken id="0A004789E8F3E1D1B1220BD6B49F071D" pageNumber="25">apically</pageStartToken>
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hooked propodeal spines. The anterior clypeal border carries a median point, the frontal carinae and antennal scrobes are vestigial, the petiole strongly and distinctively dorsolaterally bispinose and the postpetiole usually conical above, the antennae are 12-merous and the palpal formula 3:2 in 4 examined species. The clypeal structure, hooked propodeal spines, paired petiolar spines and dorsally extended postpetiole distinguish
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<taxonomicName id="3684BE1B6FCAC89B0B08C8AFBE1D30B0" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:2338" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ancyridris" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Ancyridris Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="24" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Ancyridris</taxonomicName>
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from
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<taxonomicName id="05938AEC2D4B42EB59366D20D1850819" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:24913" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Lordomyrma Emery" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="24" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Lordomyrma</taxonomicName>
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. Differently configured bilateral petiolar spines are present in
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<taxonomicName id="6C6C10F61DF59753E1ACCA1DD31AFA64" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:30524" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Lordomyrma rouxi (Emery)" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="24" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rouxi">Lordomyrma rouxi</taxonomicName>
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(Figs 17, 18), but they almost certainly represent a homoplasy.
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<subSubSection id="2EB87A347E266F30957C82518DB15314" type="distribution">
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<paragraph id="2E5EBB9C715CF85CF94A4FD89341C135" pageNumber="25">
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Available specimens are from scattered sites in Papua New Guinea, with very few known from Indonesian West Papua. Sets of up to four sympatric or near-sympatric species are represented, and sympatric associations with
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<taxonomicName id="97ECD9D83B491EDD68D86D3195C07EDA" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:24913" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Lordomyrma Emery" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="25" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Lordomyrma</taxonomicName>
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species are unknown.
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<taxonomicName id="389003AE27BFC380A2AF5659F554A018" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:2338" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ancyridris" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Ancyridris Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="25" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Ancyridris</taxonomicName>
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species are as distinctive and bizarre as some of the derivative lowland New Guinean
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<taxonomicName id="8AA957177E691469C8DB572980DD4E72" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:24913" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Lordomyrma Emery" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="25" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Lordomyrma</taxonomicName>
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species. Despite this, their interspecific morphological diversity is relatively low and quite different in degree from that seen among the structurally diverse lowland New Guinean and New Caledonian
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<taxonomicName id="45ED66181F5C6C9B43B69BDCA5CDF5B3" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:24913" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Lordomyrma Emery" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="25" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Lordomyrma</taxonomicName>
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species. The genus compares most closely in the nature of its diversity to the Fijian
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<taxonomicName id="801FD03FA57E5F6F33C8B8CE8C59A74A" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:24913" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lordomyrma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Lordomyrma Emery" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="25" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Lordomyrma fauna</taxonomicName>
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(see above).
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<subSubSection id="AB5985DE2BC1D5015FC3DE6FDCFA3907" type="materials_examined">
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<paragraph id="FEEE89F812275C96CB862E692C45E460" pageNumber="25">One species from moss forest on Mt Kaindi near Edie Creek (07o21'S, 146o40'E) is a morphologically specialized workerless parasite collected from the nest of another free-living species. Two additional sympatric free-living species are found in the vicinity.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="17E047E15FAE19EA6540E6F94A156B19" type="discussion">
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<paragraph id="DDE3D1919DFCF27F759E5981F10C066D" pageNumber="25">
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The prospects for discovery of further such sympatric assemblages of
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<taxonomicName id="F9FA9BAD4BEBDFD9C013E1469361A59F" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:2338" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Ancyridris" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Ancyridris Wheeler" order="Hymenoptera" pageNumber="25" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Ancyridris</taxonomicName>
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species, including additional undescribed taxa, could relate directly to the large number of myrmecologically unexplored high mountain blocs on New Guinea. This significant group is surely not yet well represented in collections.
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