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<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FF59FBF7FE21F8C2" bold="true" box="[151,392,1126,1152]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">Myrmecia croslandi</emphasis>
Taylor
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(
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)
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FF59FB43FECAF8A5" box="[151,355,1233,1255]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">Myrmecia croslandi</emphasis>
Taylor, 1991: 288
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, worker,
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Locality: Immediately E to NE of Corang River Bridge (-35 12, 150 03), on the Nerriga Road, near Braidwood, NSW.
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The type-locality is common to both
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FDC0FA81FD26F966" box="[526,655,1294,1317]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">M. croslandi</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FD0EFA81FCF4F967" box="[704,861,1296,1317]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">M. impaternata</emphasis>
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(see below).
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FF59FAC3FED2F928" box="[151,379,1361,1386]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">Myrmecia croslandi</emphasis>
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was described initially from the ACT, nearby NSW and Warrandyte South, VIC. It is now known also from the New
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Tablelands in northeastern NSW and upland localities on the Darling Downs of SE QLD, from Glen Innes in northeastern NSW, and from near Cobangra, VIC. It was discussed as “
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FAC1FA0BFA26F9F0" box="[1295,1423,1433,1458]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">M. pilosula</emphasis>
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” by
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, and as “
<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FDADFA2FFD2BF997" box="[611,642,1470,1493]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">M.</emphasis>
(
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FD5CFA2CFD45F994" box="[658,748,1469,1494]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">pilosula</emphasis>
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) n=1” by
<bibRefCitation id="8A3622A86718FF85FC90FA2CFBFAF994" author="Imai" box="[862,1107,1469,1494]" pageId="10" pageNumber="503" refString="Imai, H. T. &amp; Taylor, R. W. (1989) Chromosomal polymorphisms involving telomere fusion, centromeric inactivation and centromere shift in the ant Myrmecia (pilosula) n = 1. Chromosoma, 98, 456 - 460. [Berlin] http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 00292792" type="journal article" year="1989">Imai &amp; Taylor (1989)</bibRefCitation>
.
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FF09FA70FDE7F9B8" bold="true" box="[199,590,1505,1530]" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">Material examined, distribution.</emphasis>
QUEENSLAND: Dalby [-27 11, 151 16],
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, N.Geary, 2 alate gynes (
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); Millmerran [-27 53, 151 16],
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, J. Macqueen (
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); Stanthorpe [-28 39, 151 56],
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, E. Sutton (
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,
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); Warwick [-28 13, 152 2],
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,
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, P. McAllister (
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).
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SOUTH
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: Glen Innes [-29 44, 151 44],
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, F.A. Cudmore (
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); New
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National Park [-30 30, 152 30],
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(-30 25, 152 30) D.S. Olson (PSW collection); near Corang River Bridge (-35 12, 150 03), (
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locality), HI87136, 148, 151, 153, HI89030032, HI91049050, HI9905; Mayfield [-35 12, 149 48], HI87154. AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY: Bruce [-35 15, 149 6,
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,
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; Curtin [-35 19, 149 5],
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,
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; Canberra [-35 18, 149 8], HI87135165236; National Botanic Gardens (35 16·766, 149.06·579),
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. VICTORIA: Cobungra [-37 6, 147 25],
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W (
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); Warrandyte South [-37.46, 145 15] HI87213.
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<taxonomicName id="29A724DA6718FF85FF09F8DBFE04FB20" box="[199,429,1865,1890]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmecia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="503" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="croslandi">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FF09F8DBFE04FB20" box="[199,429,1865,1890]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">Myrmecia croslandi</emphasis>
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(along with the locally less frequent
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FCA1F8DBFB8AFB23" box="[879,1059,1866,1889]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">M. impaternata</emphasis>
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) is common in Canberra parks, gardens, suburban grass lawn roadside “nature strips” and in grassy bushland. Nests of the two species are sometimes found only meters apart.
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FDF8F800FD0DFBE8" box="[566,676,1937,1962]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">Croslandi</emphasis>
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was found similarly common at localities near Armidale,
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in Dec/
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96 and
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by
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collectors. It is also sympatric there with
<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FB4AF826FA97FB8F" box="[1156,1342,1974,1998]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">
<taxonomicName id="29A724DA6718FF85FB4AF826FA93FB8F" box="[1156,1338,1974,1998]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmecia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="503" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="impaternata">M. impaternata</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
Several records confirm the presence of this species in SE Queensland.
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B6719FF84FF59F833FE93FBF5" bold="true" box="[151,314,1954,1977]" pageId="11" pageNumber="504">FIGURES 79.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B6719FF84FE8EF832FDA5FBFA" box="[320,524,1954,1976]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="504">Myrmecia croslandi</emphasis>
, Canberra
</taxonomicName>
, ACT. Standard views. HW 2.50 mm, WL 3.74 mm, PW 1.60 mm.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<subSubSection id="A6BD0CD2671EFF83FF09FF06FD9FFE7F" pageId="12" pageNumber="505" type="description">
<paragraph id="EE185F59671EFF83FF09FF06FEE3FDEF" blockId="12.[151,1437,151,1187]" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FF09FF06FE0BFCF2" bold="true" box="[199,418,151,176]" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">Worker diagnosis.</emphasis>
General features as illustrated and in key couplets 1, 2, 5 &amp; 6 above. Distinguished from other
<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FF19FF2DFE92FC97" box="[215,315,188,213]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">pilosula-</emphasis>
complex species by its robust form, more massive petiolar node, especially
<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FB49FF2CFB66FC96" box="[1159,1231,189,212]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">versus</emphasis>
representatives of the two races of
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FE96FF70FE73FCBA" box="[344,474,223,248]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">M. pilosula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(compare Figures) and other details, as specified in the key. Middle and hind tibiae medium brown, matching the femora, the tibial apices minutely lightly infuscated at the bases of the reddishorange spurs. Larger workers of both races of
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FD57FEB8FCB1FD02" box="[665,792,295,320]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">M. pilosula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
often closely resemble those of
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FB4EFEB8FAA7FD02" box="[1152,1294,295,320]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">M. croslandi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Western
<taxonomicName id="29A724DA671EFF83FAB3FEB8FF58FD27" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmecia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="505" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pilosula">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FAB3FEB8FF58FD27" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">M. pilosula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is then distinguishable by its reddish-orange hind tibiae (see below under that species), but
<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FAD3FEDCFF58FDCA" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">
Eastern
<taxonomicName id="29A724DA671EFF83FAB3FEDCFF58FDCA" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmecia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="505" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pilosula">M. pilosula</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
and M.
<taxonomicName id="29A724DA671EFF83FEA5FEFEFE7DFDCA" box="[363,468,367,392]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmecia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="505" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="croslandi">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FEA5FEFEFE7DFDCA" box="[363,468,367,392]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">croslandi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are essentially identical in leg coloration (see key couplet 6 above for their discrimination).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="EE185F59671EFF83FF09FE26FD9FFE7F" blockId="12.[151,1437,151,1187]" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FF09FE26FEF0FD92" bold="true" box="[199,345,439,464]" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">Dimensions.</emphasis>
The
<typeStatus id="311CE1FB671EFF83FE5CFE26FE5DFD92" box="[402,500,439,464]" pageId="12" pageNumber="505" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
and smallest and largest available specimens have the following dimensions (mm): TL = 13.54, 12.46, 13.53; HW = 2.63, 2.54, 2.79; HL = 2.35, 2.37, 2.51; CI = 112, 107, 111; EL =1.02, 1.02, 1.08; OI = 39, 40, 39; SL = 2.02, 1.99, 2.06; SI = 77, 78, 74; PW = 1.70, 1.60, 1.81; WL = 3.88, 3.73, 4.06; PetW = 1.06, 0.93, 1.14; PpetW = 1.59, 1.43, 1.69.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="A6BD0CD2671EFF83FF09FDD6FC9BF8E0" pageId="12" pageNumber="505" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="EE185F59671EFF83FF09FDD6FE37FEB2" blockId="12.[151,1437,151,1187]" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FF09FDD6FEE7FE22" bold="true" box="[199,334,583,608]" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">Etymology.</emphasis>
Named for Michael W. J. Crosland, who as a student of R. H. Crozier at the University of New South
<collectingCountry id="96B01FC9671EFF83FF2AFDFDFE82FEC7" box="[228,299,620,645]" name="United Kingdom" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">Wales</collectingCountry>
, Sydney, discovered the 2n=2 chromosome count while experimenting with the Crozier/Imai airdrying technique of chromosome preparation for microscopy (to great initial consternation that the technique had failed, but later celebration). Crosland had collected the subject specimens shortly before at Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve near Canberra.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="EE185F59671EFF83FF09FD6DFC8FF851" blockId="12.[151,1437,151,1187]" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FF09FD6DFEE3FF57" bold="true" box="[199,330,764,789]" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">Karyology.</emphasis>
, Workers and queens in some colonies have the minimum possible eukaryote chromosome count of 2N=2.
<taxonomicName id="29A724DA671EFF83FEC0FCB0FE5CFF7A" box="[270,501,799,824]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmecia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="505" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="croslandi">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FEC0FCB0FE5CFF7A" box="[270,501,799,824]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">Myrmecia croslandi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is widely celebrated as the only animal other than the nematode
<taxonomicName id="29A724DA671EFF83FAC4FC8EFF52FF1E" class="Secernentea" family="Rhabditidae" genus="Diploscapter" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rhabditida" pageId="12" pageNumber="505" phylum="Nematoda" rank="species" species="coronata">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FAC4FC8EFF52FF1E" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">Diploscapter coronata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
known to possess a single pair of chromosomes.
<bibRefCitation id="8A3622A8671EFF83FC8AFCD5FBE9FF1E" author="Imai" box="[836,1088,836,861]" pageId="12" pageNumber="505" refString="Imai, H. T. &amp; Taylor, R. W. (1989) Chromosomal polymorphisms involving telomere fusion, centromeric inactivation and centromere shift in the ant Myrmecia (pilosula) n = 1. Chromosoma, 98, 456 - 460. [Berlin] http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 00292792" type="journal article" year="1989">Imai &amp; Taylor (1989)</bibRefCitation>
reported that its chromosome numbers in fact vary, ranging 2n=2, 3 or 4, and that
<taxonomicName id="29A724DA671EFF83FCDEFCF6FCD0FFC2" box="[784,889,871,896]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmecia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="505" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="croslandi">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FCDEFCF6FCD0FFC2" box="[784,889,871,896]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">croslandi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
demonstrates highly complicated chromosome polymorphisms, including telomere fusion, shift of centromeric activity by centromeric inactivation, salutatory growth of constitutive heterochromatin (C+), and AM inversion. Typical
<taxonomicName id="29A724DA671EFF83FBD2FC3EFB2CFF8A" box="[1052,1157,943,968]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmecia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="505" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="croslandi">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FBD2FC3EFB2CFF8A" box="[1052,1157,943,968]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">croslandi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
karyotypes with 2n=2 (2K=2M ci), and 2n=3 (2K=lA c+1M+1M ci) were illustrated by
<bibRefCitation id="8A3622A8671EFF83FC4BFC47FB13FFAD" author="Imai" box="[901,1210,982,1007]" pageId="12" pageNumber="505" refString="Hirai, H., Yamamoto, M. T., Ogura, K., Satta, Y., Yamada, M., Taylor, R. W. &amp; Imai, H. T. (1994) Multiplication of 28 s rDNA and NOR activity in chromosome evolution among ants of the Myrmecia pilosula species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Chromosoma, 103, 171 - 178. [Berlin] http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 00368009" type="journal article" year="1994">
Imai, Taylor
<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FBE8FC49FBF6FFAD" box="[1062,1119,982,1007]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">et al</emphasis>
. (1994
</bibRefCitation>
, figs 5a, 5b), and karyological details discussed by Imai, Hirae
<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FD5BFC6DFD64F851" box="[661,717,1018,1043]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">et al.</emphasis>
(1992).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="EE185F59671EFF83FF09FB8FFCABF83D" blockId="12.[151,1437,151,1187]" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FF09FB8FFE00F875" bold="true" box="[199,425,1054,1079]" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">Field associations.</emphasis>
Sympatric variously with
<taxonomicName id="29A724DA671EFF83FD37FBB1FC1BF875" box="[761,946,1056,1079]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmecia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="505" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="impaternata">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FD37FBB1FC1BF875" box="[761,946,1056,1079]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">M. impaternata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and Eastern
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FBAEFBB1FB43F875" box="[1120,1258,1054,1079]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">M. pilosula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and with
<taxonomicName id="29A724DA671EFF83FAB3FBB1FE8FF819" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmecia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="505" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="haskinsorum">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FAB3FBB1FE8FF819" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">M. haskinsorum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(and Eastern
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FE19FBD3FD98F819" box="[471,561,1090,1115]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">pilosula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) at Corang River Bridge (-35 12, 150 03). Most known records of
<taxonomicName id="29A724DA671EFF83FAB3FBD5FE89F83D" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmecia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="505" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="impaternata">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FAB3FBD5FE89F83D" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">M. impaternata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
were taken in sympatry with
<taxonomicName id="29A724DA671EFF83FDA2FBF9FD53F83D" box="[620,762,1126,1151]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmecia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="505" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="croslandi">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FDA2FBF9FD53F83D" box="[620,762,1126,1151]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">M. croslandi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="EE185F59671EFF83FF09FB1BFC9BF8E0" blockId="12.[151,1437,151,1187]" box="[199,818,1162,1187]" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FF09FB1BFE1DF8E1" bold="true" box="[199,436,1162,1187]" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">Research prospects.</emphasis>
See below under
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B671EFF83FDB2FB1DFC82F8E1" box="[636,811,1164,1187]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="505">M. impaternata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
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