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(
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703AFFDCFF73E8668B2AF98F" bold="true" box="[151,289,1587,1610]" pageId="68" pageNumber="69">FIGURE 28.</emphasis>
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(holotype, Coward Springs, SA, ANIC32-037093): A. Front of head; B. Side of body; C. Top of body; D. Distribution of material examined.
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Worker Description.
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Posterior margin of head weakly concave; erect setae on posterior margin in fullface view set in a row; sides of head noticeably convex; erect genal setae present on sides of head in full-face view. Ocelli absent; in full-face view, eyes set below midpoint of head capsule; in profile, eye set anteriad of head capsule; eye asymmetrical, curvature of inner eye margin more pronounced than its outer margin and anterior sector of eye distinctly broader than its posterior sector. Frontal carinae convex; antennal scape surpassing posterior margin of head by 1-2 x its diameter. Erect setae on scape absent, except at tip; prominence on anteromedial clypeal margin projecting as blunt but distinct protuberance; mandible elongate triangular with oblique basal margin; long, curved setae on venter of head capsule absent.
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703AFFDCFD44E9E58929F802" bold="true" box="[672,802,1968,1991]" italics="true" pageId="68" pageNumber="69">Mesosoma.</emphasis>
Pronotum moderately and evenly curved over its length. Erect pronotal setae numerous (12 or more) and longest setae elongate, flexuous and/or curved, or numerous (12 or more), short and bristly. Mesonotum sinuous, or straight. Erect mesonotal setae moderate in number (6-12), short and bristly. Mesothoracic spiracles always inconspicuous; propodeal dorsum smoothly and evenly convex; placement of propodeal spiracle posteriad and near propodeal declivity; propodeal angle weakly present or absent, the confluence of the dorsal and declivitous propodeal faces indicated, if at all, by an undulation. Erect propodeal setae moderate in number (6-12), short and bristly.
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703BFFDDFD42EF7288F7FE85" bold="true" box="[678,764,295,320]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="70">Petiole.</emphasis>
Dorsum of node convex; node thin, scale-like, orientation more-or-less vertical.
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Non-marginal erect setae of gaster present on first gastral tergite; marginal erect setae of gaster present on first tergite.
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703BFFDDFDE0EF3A88E2FE4D" bold="true" box="[516,745,367,392]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="70">General characters.</emphasis>
Allometric differences between workers of same nest absent. Colour uniformly dark chocolate, with dull coppery to bluish reflections. Colour of erect setae whitish.
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(n = 2)
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CI 8688; EI 2930; EL 0.200.21; EW 0.160.16; HFL 0.850.89; HL 0.800.83; HW 0.690.74; ML 0.971.01; MTL 0.600.65; PpH 0.110.14; PpL 0.410.42; SI 97102; SL 0.70 0.72.
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This is yet another rather physically undistinguished and very uncommon ant. The small-medium workers can mainly be distinguished from species like
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703BFFDDFD1BEC1C8903FDA5" box="[767,776,585,608]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="70">I</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703BFFDDFCF2EC1D898FFDA5" box="[790,900,584,608]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="70">splendens</emphasis>
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.
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and
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.
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by the presence of erect setae on the tibiae, the latter species having glabrous tibiae (all in all,
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.
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is a rather hairy ant, but the erect setae are short, thus distinguishing this species from
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703BFFDDFCCEECC48938FD6D" box="[810,819,657,680]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="70">I</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703BFFDDFCA6ECC48993FD6D" box="[834,920,657,680]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="70">spurcus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). The eye is slightly asymmetrical, and reminiscent of many workers of
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.
<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703BFFDDFE10ECE1884CFD09" box="[500,583,692,716]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="70">dromus</emphasis>
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. A handful of pins of this ant only are known, all collections having been made in the vicinity of Lake Eyre,
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.
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="37966560703BFFDDFF23ECA98814FCF2" pageId="69" pageNumber="70" type="etymology">
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<emphasis id="4DF8EAF9703BFFDDFF23ECA98B45FCD1" bold="true" box="[199,334,764,788]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="70" reason="1">Etymology.</emphasis>
Latin: the name refers to the coppery appearance of the worker cuticle. Weak bluish reflections may also be seen in a few workers.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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