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[29]
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<taxonomicName id="329245EDB500262CEC85BC15E87AA761" ID-CoL="5V3XM" ID-ENA="2747515" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25235" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus africanus (Mayr)" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="africanus">Anochetus africanus</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph id="F74AC55A4A57DEFC714232044455412B" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" type="mainText">
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The group of
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<taxonomicName id="7FC87A01803BDCB9D6F956012E8818B9" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25235" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus africanus (Mayr)" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="africanus">A. africanus</taxonomicName>
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includes fairly large-sized (worker HL + ML 2.15-2.60 mm) species with frontal striation fine, straight, regular, and reaching to or very nearly to the nuchal carina; eyes fairly large (EL 0.18-0.28 mm), but usually not as big relatively as in
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<taxonomicName id="FBC3BBF6F4CC30920E22BBDF9EEED2B3" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25241" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus bequaerti Forel" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bequaerti">bequaerti</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName id="B5AF7054F99DB771AEC7467BBE52FCB8" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25299" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus pellucidus Emery" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pellucidus">pellucidus</taxonomicName>
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, or
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<taxonomicName id="61B86CBCD0485E337395EE61E6516C87" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25310" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus sedilloti Emery" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sedilloti">sedilloti</taxonomicName>
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(for examples); gastric dorsum completely smooth and shining, with only scattered piligerous punctures, thus excluding the closely related
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<taxonomicName id="A35F882D6D1ECAA54924560777452A0E" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25241" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus bequaerti Forel" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bequaerti">bequaerti</taxonomicName>
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complex. Second funicular segment shorter than third, not very much longer than broad (L <2W).
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I include in the
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<taxonomicName id="25E2952B3D724DFE745BF989C68694D7" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25235" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus africanus (Mayr)" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="africanus">africanus</taxonomicName>
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group 4 nominal species (with their synonyms):
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<taxonomicName id="5419803DCC95664FB95B3C46D90C6C2C" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25235" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus africanus (Mayr)" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="africanus">africanus</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName id="05AA55EADF64AA9C4E3E5872532F646A" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25292" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus obscuratus Santschi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obscuratus">obscuratus</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName id="1E8FF520D36F36A936A295980A70FE8C" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25279" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus madagascarensis Forel" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="madagascarensis">madagascarensis</taxonomicName>
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and naialensis. In general,
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<taxonomicName id="5DF273144EADEB86E5126B19E65E96EE" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25235" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus africanus (Mayr)" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="africanus">africanus</taxonomicName>
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has the pronotum densely sculptured and opaque to weakly shining,
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<taxonomicName id="D95A75978CCC19C03F3F7394FD87E037" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25289" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus natalensis Arnold" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="natalensis">natalensis</taxonomicName>
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has the pronotum strongly shining, but with faint discal striato-punctulation, and
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<taxonomicName id="E12F08DBD70D6A52620A564A1B893F88" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25292" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus obscuratus Santschi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obscuratus">obscuratus</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName id="C8DA282B99C1B913B06BDC08995DA7A2" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25279" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus madagascarensis Forel" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="madagascarensis">madagascarensis</taxonomicName>
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have the pronotum smooth and shining, with only fine, scattered punctures. The oft-collected
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<taxonomicName id="1D670FDDF8CF7CBA7204D8000C6D72B4" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25235" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus africanus (Mayr)" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="africanus">A. africanus</taxonomicName>
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appears to range throughout the forested regions of West and Central Africa as far south as northern Angola (gallery forest of R. Kahingo, 7.39 S, 20.51 E, Mwaoka) and the Kasai River area of southern Zaire; east into Uganda (Mabira Forest, G. Anold) and the Imatong Mts. of southernmost Sudan (N. A. Weber); and northwest to Liberia (Gibi, W. M. Mann) at least. The pronotum is covered with sculpture, ranging from wavy-costulate to striate-punctulate in an inverted U- or V-shaped or oval pattern; in some samples (e.g., Cameroun and 12 miles of Kasaji, Zaire, E. S. Ross and R. E. Leech) the pronotal sculpture is weak, and the surface is shining and much more nearly smooth than usual.
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<paragraph id="8E9634138DE05FED77A0D009990CCAFA" lastPageId="54" lastPageNumber="603" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" type="mainText">
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The more lightly-sculptured East African counterpart,
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<taxonomicName id="D2884E02730A2A706BD4FFED8A6F1D97" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25292" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus obscuratus Santschi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obscuratus">A. obscuratus</taxonomicName>
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, is poorly known, and is only barely distinguishable from the island isolate,
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<taxonomicName id="9D0609AD15E949D4ECF47804B1816CB9" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25279" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus madagascarensis Forel" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="madagascarensis">A. madagascarensis</taxonomicName>
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. These two may in fact be only slight geographical variants of one species.
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<taxonomicName id="4EA781E665E0358092997EDB68DF6F01" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25292" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus obscuratus Santschi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obscuratus">A. obscuratus</taxonomicName>
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has the posterior truncal dorsum even less strongly sculptured (more strongly shining) than in the 8 Malagasy locality samples now available, though direct comparison is needed to appreciate the distinction.
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<taxonomicName id="3B27C76DED3F7311E055A0FE35486875" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25292" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus obscuratus Santschi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obscuratus">A. obscuratus</taxonomicName>
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samples are also much less uniform;
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<taxonomicName id="B6BC2D0C8B43F4899B166DD271A93412" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:133692" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus schoutedeni var. ustus Santschi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="variety" species="ustus" variety="ustus">var. ustus</taxonomicName>
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has the posterior trunk almost completely smooth and shining, an extreme of the trend in
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<taxonomicName id="F9A75F2502C425B3476A3FB0E524B4D6" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25292" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus obscuratus Santschi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obscuratus">obscuratus</taxonomicName>
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. The samples of
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<taxonomicName id="235B1DD6F7B7C33D18F266FA6023A8B8" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25292" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus obscuratus Santschi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obscuratus">A. obscuratus</taxonomicName>
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I have seen are the type of
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<taxonomicName id="9CC1AF488F527B72D216B59F67A683BD" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:133691" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus schoutedeni Santschi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="53" pageNumber="602" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="schoutedeni">schoutedeni</taxonomicName>
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from Dumbi, Kasai district, Zaire; the type worker of
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, from Makumbi in the same district; the types of
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, from Kiboschi, Kilimanjaro, Tanganyka; and a series
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6 workers and alate queens from 11 miles S. Maktau, Teita Prov., Kenya, E. S. Ross and R. E. Leech. A worker chosen at random from the last sample has HL + ML = 2.55 mm, while the eye is 0.26 mm long.
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<taxonomicName id="7B2A6DB56EE2C3A5D38BAD63950C1FC2" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25289" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus natalensis Arnold" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="54" pageNumber="603" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="natalensis">A. natalensis</taxonomicName>
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is based on the type series, from Pietermaritzburg, Natal, and I know of no other samples. It is intermediate in sculpture between the more lightly-sculptured
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<taxonomicName id="19FC1FF8A6228DB2B4F829731797CAB2" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25235" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus africanus (Mayr)" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="54" pageNumber="603" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="africanus">africanus</taxonomicName>
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mentioned above (Kasaji, Cameroun) and
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<taxonomicName id="2079CADB1B1C08FAA974B3DBB449844E" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25292" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus obscuratus Santschi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="54" pageNumber="603" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obscuratus">obscuratus</taxonomicName>
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, b,ut the eyes are a little larger than in either relative: EL 0.28 mm in a worker in which HL + ML = 2.25. The petiolar node is a bit sharper at the summit in side view than in most
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samples. This species may just be a slightly extreme variant of
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or
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, or it may really represent an extralimita!, independent species. We need more material of the complex, especially from Rhodesia, Zambia and Mozambique, in order to understand what
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<taxonomicName id="C2F6F004F9732AD144828271393A7399" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25289" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus natalensis Arnold" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="54" pageNumber="603" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="natalensis">natalensis</taxonomicName>
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is.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="1403626BFD85DE2F326003F9A61A0BB9" pageId="54" pageNumber="603" type="mainText">
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The relationship between
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<taxonomicName id="DE23B10785CD0346EF4D81BE2D4DA4DE" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25235" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus africanus (Mayr)" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="54" pageNumber="603" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="africanus">africanus</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName id="9DE7043370A16177955AAEE00C68C1D8" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25292" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus obscuratus Santschi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="54" pageNumber="603" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obscuratus">obscuratus</taxonomicName>
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is still open to question, although it does appear that the two remain reasonably distinct in areas (such as southern Zaire and Uganda) where they may be sympatric or nearly so. Otherwise, we could be dealing with conspecific forest and savanna ecotypes that intergrade sharply in ecotonal districts, a possible interpretation also of the
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<taxonomicName id="169347A3B087B60EA9846AB4E681FEBD" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25268" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus inermis André" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="54" pageNumber="603" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="inermis">inermis</taxonomicName>
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complex [40].
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="0C2D19D613DC211FE08F5ECB85D40326" pageId="54" pageNumber="603" type="mainText">
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The types of
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<taxonomicName id="C5982C15A9491A850CCC9DF4A3CDE554" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:133629" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus pasteuri Santschi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="54" pageNumber="603" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pasteuri">A. pasteuri</taxonomicName>
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are large examples of
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<taxonomicName id="76930DE28342EE2FD87F6796AC87EF4B" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25235" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus africanus (Mayr)" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="54" pageNumber="603" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="africanus">africanus</taxonomicName>
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, the worker with eyes no larger (EL 0.25) than in members of the latter species of the same size (EL 0.25-0.26). The other characters cited by Santschi in his comparison with
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<taxonomicName id="F0A2F7CF5D2D51562E05AD9BD2703E71" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25235" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus africanus (Mayr)" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="54" pageNumber="603" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="africanus">africanus</taxonomicName>
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are all ones of slight degree and variable in the
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<taxonomicName id="957A17D4DFB8843DFB10278DD988E98B" LSID-HNS="urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:25235" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Anochetus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-HNS="Anochetus africanus (Mayr)" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="54" pageNumber="603" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="africanus">africanus</taxonomicName>
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material available.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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