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taxon was described from the
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(
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,
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6.192°
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gyne is labelled “SWI:
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: 1994.06, Le Brassus-5SSW, Chalet a Roch Field Stat., nest G5” and depicted in
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. Investigated was all type material, consisting of five gynes and
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from the nests G1-G5 of the
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supercolony, collected in the years 1993 and 1994. Depository SMN Görlitz.
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All material examined. Numeric phenotypical data were recorded in 73 nest samples with
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and in 53 gynes.
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(two),
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(four),
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(three), and
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(58).
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Geographical range. Its natural range is rather small and extends over the montane-subalpine zone of the Jura Mountains and western Alps between
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with a small exclave in the southern Schwarzwald /
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. In the Alps, it ascends to
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. A colony artificially introduced to
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/
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in 1971 showed continuous growth to supercolonial size over 34 years (
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). Artificial introductions of wood ants to at least 42 localities over entire
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south to
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and west to
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were performed in the years 1959 - 1967 (e.g.,
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). In that time, the transferred ants were classified as
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. However, it is very likely that the vast majority of these introductions really involved
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as it was confirmed for five sites in the North Apennine (
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).
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Diagnosis of worker (
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, key). Minimum size, mean and maximum
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1680 and
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1.091. Scape rather short and thickset, SL /
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9.22. Eyes always with long microsetae, EyeHL
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. Setae number on dorsal plane of scape variable but on average higher than in Alpine
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24.9, OccHL
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14.2, GuHL
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. Mean length of pronotal setae, number and length of metapleural setae on average lower than in morph A1 of Alpine
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, mPnHL
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, nMet
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7.7, MetHL
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. Workers of morph A3 of Alpine
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are similar in the pilosity condition but have a much larger size, a larger head length index, and a shorter scape.
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Diagnosis of gyne (
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). On average smaller than morph A1 and A3 of Alpine
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, mean and maximum
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2095 and
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. Scape longer than in morph A3 of Alpine
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and very thickset, SL /
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0.805, SL / Smax 7.97. Eyes always with conspicuous microsetae, EyeHL
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. Setae number on dorsal plane of scape variable but on average higher than in morph A1 and A3 of Alpine
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, nSc 6.4. Posterior margin and underside of head always with conspicuous setae, the length of which is lower than in morph A1 but larger than in morph A3 of Alpine
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<emphasis box="[1193,1313,1521,1542]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="167">F. lugubris</emphasis>
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, nCH 23.8, OccHL
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, nGu 16.7, GuHL
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. Pronotal setae shorter than in morph A1 of Alpine
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<emphasis box="[1215,1336,1585,1606]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="167">F. lugubris</emphasis>
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, mPnHL
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. Petiole setae fewer and metapleural setae shorter than in morph A1 of Alpine
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<emphasis box="[1108,1224,1649,1670]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="167">F. lugubris</emphasis>
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but more numerous and longer than in morph A3 of Alpine
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<emphasis box="[1259,1381,1681,1702]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="167">F. lugubris</emphasis>
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, nPe 9.2, MetHL
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. Dorsal surface of gaster appears at lower magnification more or less shiny. Dorsum of first gaster tergite usually with weak transverse microripples and with foveolae and pubescence on average more densely packed than in
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<emphasis box="[980,1127,1841,1862]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="167">Formica rufa</emphasis>
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or
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<emphasis box="[1159,1365,1840,1862]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="167">Formica polyctena</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, FodG
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, sqPDG
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.
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Taxonomic comments and clustering results. Considering the extreme polymorphism in Alpine
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<emphasis box="[816,1017,1969,1990]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="167">Formica lugubris</emphasis>
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and the presence of another similar sympatric species
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<emphasis box="[1014,1213,2001,2022]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="167">Formica helvetica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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, the separation of
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<emphasis box="[176,416,1681,1702]" italics="true" pageId="35" pageNumber="168">Formica paralugubris</emphasis>
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in both workers and gynes should be problematic. I combined 98 nest samples with
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of Alpine
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<emphasis box="[354,476,1745,1766]" italics="true" pageId="35" pageNumber="168">F. lugubris</emphasis>
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morphs A1 and A3 and of
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<emphasis box="[151,276,1777,1798]" italics="true" pageId="35" pageNumber="168">F. helvetica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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in class 1, and 70 nest samples with
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of
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<emphasis box="[277,454,1809,1830]" italics="true" pageId="35" pageNumber="168">F. paralugubris</emphasis>
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in class 2. A two-class LDA considering the characters
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, CL / CW
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, SL /
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, SL / Smax
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, PeW /
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, nSc
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, nCH
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, OccHL
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, mPnHL
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, nMet
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, and MetHL
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classified all samples of
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<emphasis box="[177,348,1937,1958]" italics="true" pageId="35" pageNumber="168">F. paralugubris</emphasis>
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and 96 samples of the collective cluster correctly. This means a classification error of 1.2% within a total of 168 nest samples. A plot of the first and second factors of a PCA supported the existence of two main clusters class 1 and class 2, and disagreed in 3.0% of the samples with the LDA (
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). The exploratory data analyses NC-part.kmeans, NC-Ward, and NC-NMDS.kmeans suggested two clusters and disagreed with the final species hy- pothesis by 3.6, 4.1, and 3.0%. The clustering by NC-part. hclust was ignored as it splitted into seven clusters and exposed 8.9% indeterminate samples (outliers). As result, we have a sufficiently good separation of
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<emphasis box="[1263,1437,433,454]" italics="true" pageId="35" pageNumber="168">F. paralugubris</emphasis>
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workers by morphology. The distinction of
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<emphasis box="[1267,1438,465,486]" italics="true" pageId="35" pageNumber="168">F.paralugubris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
gynes from those of Alpine
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<emphasis box="[1107,1225,497,518]" italics="true" pageId="35" pageNumber="168">F.lugubris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
morphs A1 and A3, and of
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<emphasis box="[888,1011,529,550]" italics="true" pageId="35" pageNumber="168">F. helvetica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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by a principal component analysis appears also rather clear when the eight characters
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, SL /
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, SL / Smax, PeW /
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,
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/
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, nSc, nCH, and OccHL are considered (
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). Section “Hybrids
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="35" pageNumber="168">Formica aquilonia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
×
<emphasis box="[947,1102,657,678]" italics="true" pageId="35" pageNumber="168">
<taxonomicName authorityName="SEIFERT" authorityYear="1996" box="[947,1096,657,678]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Formica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="35" pageNumber="168" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="paralugubris">paralugubris</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
(p.175) discusses the situation in hybrids
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<emphasis box="[933,1065,689,710]" italics="true" pageId="35" pageNumber="168">F. aquilonia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
×
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<emphasis box="[1093,1241,689,710]" italics="true" pageId="35" pageNumber="168">paralugubris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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<paragraph pageId="35" pageNumber="168">
Fig.32: Nest-sample means of the first and second principal component of workers of
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<emphasis box="[409,639,721,742]" italics="true" pageId="35" pageNumber="168">Formica paralugubris</emphasis>
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(black dots),
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<emphasis box="[151,339,753,774]" italics="true" pageId="35" pageNumber="168">Formica lugubris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
morph A1 (squares),
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<emphasis box="[575,692,753,774]" italics="true" pageId="35" pageNumber="168">F. lugubris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
morph A3 (triangles), and
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<emphasis box="[349,536,785,806]" italics="true" pageId="35" pageNumber="168">Formica helvetica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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(rhombs). Eleven phenotypic characters were considered.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<subSubSection pageId="35" pageNumber="168" type="biology_ecology">
<paragraph blockId="35.[816,1438,177,775]" pageId="35" pageNumber="168">
Biology. See the species profile given by
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.
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