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<emphasis id="DCD3834B671AFF87FF59FC3EFEC1FF8B" bold="true" box="[151,360,943,969]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="501">Myrmecia banksi</emphasis>
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(
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)
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B671AFF87FF59FB8DFEF3F871" box="[151,346,1050,1075]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="501">Myrmecia banksi</emphasis>
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is known only from low elevations along a narrow coastal and sub-coastal strip in NSW south from Sydney to Batemans Bay.
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This species was referred to in previous JACP publications as the &quot;greenhead&quot; form of
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(
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), as “
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(
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B671AFF87FF6EFB17FF53F8DD" box="[160,250,1158,1183]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="501">pilosula</emphasis>
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) 2n=10”, or informally as “
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<taxonomicName id="29A724DA671AFF87FDFDFB16FD00F8DD" box="[563,681,1158,1183]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmecia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="501" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="banksi">M. banksi</taxonomicName>
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.
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locality.
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: South Nowra, shortly north of the junction of Forest Road and Bulldog Avenue track (-34 56, 150 37), ca 800 meters west of the Forest Road/Princes Highway intersection. Forest Road marks the boundary between Currambene State Forest (to the North) and Nowra State Forest. The area is referred to locally as Comberton,
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deposition.
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and
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in
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,
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or type-compared vouchers in
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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) and in
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,
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,
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,
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.
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Known from coastal or sub-coastal
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, from Leumeah, Sydney, south to
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collections are from elevations below 70 meters. Localities most distant from the coast are at Wandandian (ca
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inland) and Leumeah (ca
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).
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B671AFF87FC9CFA5FFBBDF9A4" box="[850,1044,1485,1510]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="501">Myrmecia banksi</emphasis>
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will almost certainly range further north and south, and could occur more widely in the Sydney area where records of Jack-jumpers are currently sparse.
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and
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records.
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: Leumeah, E of railway station [-34 0 3, 150 50], HI
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13,
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11; Nowra [-34 53, 150 36], HI87122127, 91057; South Nowra [-34 55, 150 36], HI99013;
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accessions 145, 147, 148, SB&amp;SM; Wandandian [-35 5, 150 31], HI89034, HI91048, 100, 101; West of Nelligen [-35 39, 150 8], HI85213, HI91191; Sheep Station Creek near Nelligen [-35 39, 150 8], HI87158; Batemans Bay [-35 42, 150 11], HI87160; Catalina [-35 43, 150 11],
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. The
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“Nowra” samples were collected near
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Naval Air Station; the “South Nowra” records from the vicinity of the
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locality; and the Batemans Bay sample from near the western end of Maloneys Beach.
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B671AFF87FF09F8A4FE0CFB0C" bold="true" box="[199,421,1845,1870]" pageId="8" pageNumber="501">Worker diagnosis.</emphasis>
General features as illustrated and in key couplets 1, &amp; 3 above.
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is distinguished within the
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complex by its dense, brassy-green cephalic pubescence. This produces strong greenish-yellow reflections, readily visible in living specimens with hand lens magnification, and encouraged Imais field epithet “greenhead”. Anterior femora chocolate brown, each with a reddish-orange apical section up to 1/3 its length, matching the adjacent tibia. Middle tarsi and tibiae reddish-orange, matching those of fore legs.
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femora and tibiae dark brown, like anterior femora; the tibiae sometimes a little lighter, with their apices and the tarsi progressively lighter in color towards the foot.
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FD26FF2CFC02FC97" box="[744,939,188,213]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">Myrmecia banksi</emphasis>
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is otherwise morphologically similar to the eastern species
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FE8BFF70FDEEFCBA" box="[325,583,225,248]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">Myrmecia impaternata</emphasis>
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and the Western Australian
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FC48FF70FC4CFCBA" box="[902,997,225,248]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">M. imaii</emphasis>
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, which have similar but usually muchless dense brassy cephalic pilosity, and distinctive, very different karyology (see below). The provenance of specimens and their comparison with confidently identified vouchers is important in differentiating these taxa.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B671BFF86FF59F833FE93FBF5" bold="true" box="[151,314,1954,1977]" pageId="9" pageNumber="502">FIGURES 46.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B671BFF86FE8EF832FE46FBFA" box="[320,495,1954,1976]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="502">Myrmecia banksi</emphasis>
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, Holotype, South Nowra, NSW. Standard views. HW 2.66 mm, WL 3.86 mm, PW 1.72 mm.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="EE185F596718FF85FF09FEDDFAF5FDEF" blockId="10.[151,1436,151,1043]" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FF09FEDDFEF0FD27" bold="true" box="[199,345,332,357]" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">Dimensions.</emphasis>
(
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, smallest
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, largest
<typeStatus id="311CE1FB6718FF85FCCEFEDCFCC8FD27" box="[768,865,333,357]" pageId="10" pageNumber="503" type="paratype">paratype</typeStatus>
(mm): TL = 13.04, 11.81, 13.45; HW = 2.66, 2.26, 2.76; HL = 2.44, 2.48, 2.77; CI = 109, 109, 111; EL =1.02, 0.87, 1.06; OI = 38, 38, 38; SL = 1.98, 1.75, 2.09; SI = 74, 77, 76; PW = 1.72, 1.70, 1.77; WL = 3.86, 3.33, 3.92; PetW = 0.94, 0.77, 1.01; PpetW = 1.50, 1.19, 1.60.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="A6BD0CD26718FF85FF09FE26FC9BF850" pageId="10" pageNumber="503" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="EE185F596718FF85FF09FE26FD1AFE7F" blockId="10.[151,1436,151,1043]" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FF09FE26FEE7FD92" bold="true" box="[199,334,439,464]" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">Etymology.</emphasis>
Named for Joseph Banks (
<date id="9A1979996718FF85FD58FE29FCBFFD92" box="[662,790,440,464]" pageId="10" pageNumber="503" value="1743" valueMax="1820">17431820</date>
) who with Daniel Solander in 1770 first scientifically collected Australian ants and other insects at Botany Bay, NSW, while exploring ashore from James Cooks HM Bark
<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FF16FE6EFEFAFE5A" box="[216,339,511,536]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">Endeavour</emphasis>
in habitat similar to that at the
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FD05FD90FC94FE5A" box="[715,829,511,536]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">M. banksi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<typeStatus id="311CE1FB6718FF85FC89FD91FCD7FE5A" box="[839,894,512,536]" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">Type</typeStatus>
Locality. The
<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FBE2FE6EFB0EFE5A" box="[1068,1191,511,536]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">Endeavour</emphasis>
landing site is about
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NNE of the
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FEBAFDB4FE4BFE7F" box="[372,482,548,573]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">M. banksi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
South Nowra site.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="EE185F596718FF85FF09FDD6FE29FE8D" blockId="10.[151,1436,151,1043]" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FF09FDD6FEE3FE22" bold="true" box="[199,330,583,608]" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">Karyology.</emphasis>
Most examined specimens (sampled from all above localities except Catalina and Batemans Bay) had the monomorphic karyotype 2K=6M +2M c +2A (2n=10) (
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Imai, Taylor
<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FC2CFDE1FB88FEC5" box="[994,1057,622,647]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">et al.,</emphasis>
1994
</bibRefCitation>
: 147,
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h). One putative mutant individual from Leumeah (sample HIAAGH11) had a complicated translocation producing 2n=9 (
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Imai, Crozier
<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FF3CFD29FE98FE8D" box="[242,305,694,719]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">et al.,</emphasis>
1977
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).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="EE185F596718FF85FF09FD4BFE82FFAD" blockId="10.[151,1436,151,1043]" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FF09FD4BFEB8FEB1" bold="true" box="[199,273,730,755]" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">Notes.</emphasis>
<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FED6FD4AFE8FFEB0" box="[280,294,731,754]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">S</emphasis>
ympatric associations with other
<taxonomicName id="29A724DA6718FF85FD55FD4DFCB2FEB1" box="[667,795,730,755]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmecia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="503" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pilosula">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FD55FD4DFCB2FEB1" box="[667,795,730,755]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">M. pilosula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
-complex species are unknown. Convincing karyological evidence identifies
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FEBAFC91FE4AFF55" box="[372,483,766,791]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">M. banksi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(or a close ancestor) as one of the parent species of the apparently parthenogenetic and hybrid-originated
<taxonomicName id="29A724DA6718FF85FE5BFCB5FDECFF79" box="[405,581,804,827]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmecia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="503" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="impaternata">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FE5BFCB5FDECFF79" box="[405,581,804,827]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">M. impaternata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(the other putative parental taxon is an element of the Eastern Race of
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FAB3FCB5FF58FF1D" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">M. pilosula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
: see below under
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FE07FCD9FDD3FF1D" box="[457,634,840,863]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">M. impaternata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). Because of close similarity between
<taxonomicName id="29A724DA6718FF85FBF3FCD9FB07FF1D" box="[1085,1198,838,863]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmecia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="503" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="banksi">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FBF3FCD9FB07FF1D" box="[1085,1198,838,863]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">M. banksi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="29A724DA6718FF85FB25FCD9FA35FF1D" box="[1259,1436,840,863]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmecia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="503" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="impaternata">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FB25FCD9FA35FF1D" box="[1259,1436,840,863]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">M. impaternata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
future studies, such as analysis of their distributional relationships between the NSW South Coast and Southern Tablelands, might require karyological or DNA analyses to authenticate identifications. A winged male is present in HI87123.
<taxonomicName id="29A724DA6718FF85FEFAFC25FDAEFF89" box="[308,519,946,971]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Myrmecia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="503" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pilosula">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FEFAFC25FDAEFF89" box="[308,519,946,971]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">Myrmecia pilosula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Eastern Race) is considered likely to be found in future as a sympatric associate of
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FF7BFC49FE8DFFAD" box="[181,292,982,1007]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">M. banksi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="EE185F596718FF85FF09FC6BFC9BF850" blockId="10.[151,1436,151,1043]" box="[199,818,1018,1043]" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">
<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FF09FC6BFE1DF851" bold="true" box="[199,436,1018,1043]" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">Research prospects.</emphasis>
See below under
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<emphasis id="DCD3834B6718FF85FDB2FC6DFC82F851" box="[636,811,1020,1043]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="503">M. impaternata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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