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<mods:title>A new ant genus from the Greater Antilles and Central America, Zatania (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), exemplifies the utility of male and molecular character systems</mods:title>
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<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
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<mods:namePart>John S. Lapolla</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Robert J. Kallal</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Seán G. Brady</mods:namePart>
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<mods:title>Systematic Entomology</mods:title>
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<mods:date>2012</mods:date>
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<mods:number>37</mods:number>
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<mods:identifier type="ZooBank">21D47EAA-0926-469D-B42E-0EEEB61C47EF</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6179238" ID-GBIF-Taxon="114923625" ID-Zenodo-Dep="6179238" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:039C9A6B641D9456156DD562654AFC15" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/039C9A6B641D9456156DD562654AFC15" lastPageId="12" lastPageNumber="212" pageId="11" pageNumber="211">
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<taxonomicName authority="Fontenla, 2000" authorityName="Fontenla" authorityYear="2000" box="[821,1150,1613,1634]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Zatania" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="211" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="karstica" status="comb.n.">
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<emphasis box="[821,979,1613,1634]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="211">Zatania karstica</emphasis>
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(Fontenla, 2000)
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</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis box="[1150,1156,1613,1634]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="211">,</emphasis>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[1163,1244,1613,1634]" pageId="11" pageNumber="211">
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<taxonomicNameLabel box="[1163,1244,1613,1634]" pageId="11" pageNumber="211">comb.n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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</emphasis>
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[
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<figureCitation box="[827,940,1643,1664]" captionStart="Figs 4 – 21" captionStartId="7.[151,194,1818,1837]" captionTargetBox="[231,1347,174,1785]" captionTargetId="figure@7.[231,1348,174,1787]" captionTargetPageId="7" captionText="Figs 4 – 21. Zatania workers in various views (left to right: dorsal, full frontal, lateral and scape): 4 – 7, Zatania albimaculata; 8 – 11, Zatania cisipa; 12 – 15, Zatania gibberosa; 16 – 19, Zatania gloriosa; 20 – 21, Zatania karstica." pageId="11" pageNumber="211">Figs 20, 21</figureCitation>
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(worker)]
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</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName authority="Fontenla, 2000: 84" authorityName="Fontenla" authorityPageNumber="84" authorityYear="2000" box="[845,1228,1699,1720]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Prenolepis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="211" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="karstica">
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<emphasis box="[845,1032,1699,1720]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="211">Prenolepis karstica</emphasis>
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Fontenla, 2000: 84
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</taxonomicName>
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(worker described). Holotype worker, Cuba: Pinar del Río Province, near Ceja de Francisco, Sierra de Mesa (IESC) (examined).
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<emphasis box="[842,1016,1814,1835]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="211">Worker diagnosis.</emphasis>
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Overall coloration uniformly dark brown; scattered erect setae on head, pronotum and gaster; no erect setae on scapes, mesonotum or propodeum; whitish pubescence scattered across body; dorsal face of propodeum distinctly dome-like.
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<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="212">
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<emphasis box="[182,244,278,299]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="212">Notes.</emphasis>
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The workers of this species are the only extant species that is uniformly coloured, making them relatively easy to identify. Fontenla (2000) discussed the interesting behaviour of
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<emphasis box="[190,294,367,388]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="212">
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<taxonomicName box="[190,294,367,388]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Prenolepis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="212" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="karstica">Z. karstica</taxonomicName>
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</emphasis>
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workers. In other
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<emphasis box="[486,561,367,388]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="212">
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<taxonomicName box="[486,561,367,388]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Zatania" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="212" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Zatania</taxonomicName>
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</emphasis>
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species workers are fast-moving individuals (not surprising given the long legs observed in workers), but in
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<emphasis box="[437,540,427,448]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="212">
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<taxonomicName box="[437,540,427,448]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Prenolepis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="212" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="karstica">Z. karstica</taxonomicName>
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</emphasis>
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the workers are slower (although Fontenla did not qualify this), and they often display what he termed a frozen pose as they moved along. Fontenla (2000) suggested that this behaviour was related to the fact that the species is putatively restricted to living on limestone mogotes, and that the coloration of
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<emphasis box="[524,627,577,598]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="212">
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<taxonomicName box="[524,627,577,598]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Prenolepis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="212" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="karstica">Z. karstica</taxonomicName>
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</emphasis>
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mimics
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="212" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="212">Temnothorax</emphasis>
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ants (
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<emphasis box="[320,552,607,627]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="212">
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<taxonomicName box="[320,552,607,627]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="212" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gundlachi">Temnothorax gundlachi</taxonomicName>
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</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis box="[613,695,607,627]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="212">T. poeyi</emphasis>
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), with which it lives sympatrically. It has been suggested that the coloration of the
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<emphasis box="[301,426,666,687]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="212">
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<taxonomicName box="[301,426,666,687]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Temnothorax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="212" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Temnothorax</taxonomicName>
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</emphasis>
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ants is aposematic (Wilson, 1988; Fontenla, 1995), and therefore Fontenla (2000) speculated that
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<emphasis box="[161,264,726,747]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="212">
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<taxonomicName box="[161,264,726,747]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Prenolepis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="212" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="karstica">Z. karstica</taxonomicName>
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</emphasis>
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is engaged in some kind of convergent mimicry to protect them against
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<emphasis box="[373,434,756,777]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="212">
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<taxonomicName box="[373,434,756,777]" class="Reptilia" family="Dactyloidae" genus="Anolis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="12" pageNumber="212" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Anolis</taxonomicName>
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</emphasis>
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lizards, presumably one of their main predators. We have not personally observed this species in the field, but
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<emphasis box="[330,433,816,837]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="212">
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<taxonomicName box="[330,433,816,837]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Prenolepis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="212" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="karstica">Z. karstica</taxonomicName>
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</emphasis>
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may be an interesting candidate for the study of adaptations (morphological and behavioural) of ants to living on limestone mogotes.
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