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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.700.11784" ID-GBIF-Dataset="30d1c76a-41e1-4f66-9fb5-460bf381f752" ID-PMC="PMC5711039" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-700-1" ID-PubMed="29358897" ID-ZBK="EBA4322720AD4CFFA04E8D2542DDA3D6" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2017" ModsDocID="1313-2970-700-1" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 700" ModsDocTitle="Revision of the ant genus Melophorus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)" checkinTime="1506009303549" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Heterick, Brian E., Castalanelli, Mark & Shattuck, Steve O." docDate="2017" docId="AFACDA1E6B7CF7BFFE2EF3E79EE76925" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 700: 1-420" docOrigin="ZooKeys 700" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.700.11784" docTitle="Melophorus latinotus Heterick, Castalanelli & Shattuck, sp. n." docType="treatment" docUuid="F7E1F489-0886-4D23-AB32-2871C55E5E51" docUuidSource="ZooBank" docVersion="5" lastPageNumber="172" masterDocId="FF93E60CA711CB7BFF95D521FFFDFF9A" masterDocTitle="Revision of the ant genus Melophorus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)" masterLastPageNumber="420" masterPageNumber="1" pageNumber="170" updateTime="1668164819442" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>Revision of the ant genus Melophorus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Heterick, Brian E.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Shattuck, Steve O.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:title>ZooKeys</mods:title>
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<mods:date>2017</mods:date>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.700.11784</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="150814485" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:F7E1F489-0886-4D23-AB32-2871C55E5E51" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/AFACDA1E6B7CF7BFFE2EF3E79EE76925" lastPageId="171" lastPageNumber="172" pageId="169" pageNumber="170">
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/F7E1F489-0886-4D23-AB32-2871C55E5E51" authority="Heterick, Castalanelli & Shattuck" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Melophorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melophorus latinotus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="169" pageNumber="170" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="latinotus">Melophorus latinotus Heterick, Castalanelli & Shattuck</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="169" pageNumber="170">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<paragraph pageId="169" pageNumber="170">Types.</paragraph>
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Minor worker from Eneabba region
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<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="-29.4075">29°24'27"S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="115.11361">115°06'49"E</geoCoordinate>
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, Western Australia, 24-28 November 2006, A. Gove/N. McCoy,
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Melaleuca" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Melaleuca leuropoma" order="Myrtales" pageId="169" pageNumber="170" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="leuropoma">Melaleuca leuropoma</taxonomicName>
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sandplain slope: pitfall trap 2H [JDM32-002004] (WAM). Paratypes: 2 minor workers from Eneabba region
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<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="-29.695833">29°41'45"S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="115.18833">115°11'18"E</geoCoordinate>
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, Western Australia, 24-28 November 2006, A. Gove/N. McCoy,
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Proteaceae" genus="Conospermum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Conospermum triplinerv" order="Proteales" pageId="169" pageNumber="170" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="triplinerv">Conospermum triplinerv</taxonomicName>
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/
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Eremaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Eremaea beaufortioides" order="Myrtales" pageId="169" pageNumber="170" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="beaufortioides">Eremaea beaufortioides</taxonomicName>
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, sandplain flat: pitfall trap 23N [JDM32-002003] (WAM); 2 minor workers with same collection data as preceding paratypes [ANIC].
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<subSubSection pageId="169" pageNumber="170" type="materials_examined">
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<paragraph pageId="169" pageNumber="170">Other material examined.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="169" pageNumber="170">Western Australia: 9 kn N Yanchep (Leicester, K./McDavitt, S.).</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="169" pageNumber="170" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph pageId="169" pageNumber="170">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="169" pageNumber="170">
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Melophorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melophorus latinotus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="169" pageNumber="170" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="latinotus">Melophorus latinotus</taxonomicName>
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can be placed in the
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. biroi" pageId="169" pageNumber="170" rank="species" species="biroi">M. biroi</taxonomicName>
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species-group on the basis of characters of the clypeus, propodeum, mandible and palps. The species is placed in the
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. biroi" pageId="169" pageNumber="170" rank="species" species="biroi">M. biroi</taxonomicName>
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species-complex on the basis of a further suite of characters (viz, metatibia of major worker with only one preapical spur [except rarely in the
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<taxonomicName lsidName="mjobergi" pageId="169" pageNumber="170" rank="species" species="mjobergi">mjobergi</taxonomicName>
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clade]; clypeal psammophore placed anteriorly at or just above anterior margin of clypeus in the minor worker and often in the major worker; head dorsoventrally compressed to varying degrees in the minor worker of most species with the eyes placed high on the sides; compact legs, and small body size [excluding
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<taxonomicName lsidName="mjobergi" pageId="169" pageNumber="170" rank="species" species="mjobergi">mjobergi</taxonomicName>
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clade] HW of smallest minor 0.36 mm, average HW of smallest minors 0.46 mm; HW of largest known major 1.29 mm, average HW of largest majors [where known] 1.05 mm). Uniform, minute, net-like microreticulation and a transverse row of short, stout unmodified setae placed across the centre of pronotum distinguish minor workers of this rare ant from similar forms in the
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. biroi" pageId="169" pageNumber="170" rank="species" species="biroi">M. biroi</taxonomicName>
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species-complex. The major worker is unknown.
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<paragraph pageId="169" pageNumber="170">Minor worker description.</paragraph>
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Head. Head square; posterior margin of head planar or weakly convex; frons matt or with weak sheen, microreticulate or microreticulate-shagreenate; pilosity of frons consisting exclusively or almost exclusively of well-spaced, appressed setae only (small, erect setae, if present, usually confined to ocular triangle or posterior margin of head). Eye moderate (eye length 0.20-0.49 length of side of head capsule); in full-face view, eyes set above midpoint of head capsule; in profile, eye set around midline of head capsule; eyes elliptical or slightly reniform. In full-face view, frontal carinae distinctly concave; frontal lobes straight in front of antennal insertion. Anteromedial clypeal margin broadly and evenly convex; clypeal psammophore set below midpoint of clypeus; palp formula 6,4. Five mandibular teeth in minor worker; man
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<pageBreakToken pageId="170" pageNumber="171" start="start">dibles</pageBreakToken>
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triangular, weakly incurved; third mandibular tooth distinctly shorter than apical tooth and teeth numbers two and four; masticatory margin of mandibles approximately vertical or weakly oblique. Mesosoma. Integument of pronotum, mesonotum and mesopleuron matt or with weak sheen and microreticulate throughout; anterior mesosoma in profile rounded anteriad, thereafter pronotum and whole of mesonotum flattened and on a higher plane than propodeum; appearance of erect pronotal setae short, (i.e., longest erect setae shorter than length of eye) and unmodified; in profile, metanotal groove a narrow but deep slit; propodeum matt or with a weak sheen and microreticulate; propodeum angulate, propodeal angle blunt; length ratio of propodeal dorsum to its declivity between 1:1 and 1:2; erect propodeal setae always absent; appressed propodeal setulae short, separated by more than own length and inconspicuous; propodeal spiracle situated on or beside declivitous face of propodeum, and longer (length ≥ 0.50
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height of propodeum). Petiole. In profile, petiolar node squamiform; in full-face view, shape of petiolar node uniformly rounded; node matt with indistinct microsculpture. Gaster. Gaster matt with faint, indistinct microsculpture; pilosity of first gastral tergite consisting of well-spaced, long, whitish, appressed setae with erect setae (present in at least some workers) confined to margin of the sclerite. General characters. Colour dull brown.
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<subSubSection pageId="171" pageNumber="172" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="171" pageNumber="172">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="171" pageNumber="172" start="start">Measurements</pageBreakToken>
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.
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<paragraph pageId="171" pageNumber="172">Worker (n = 2): CI 101-103; EI 26-26; EL 0.15-0.17; HL 0.54-0.59; HW 0.56-0.59; ML 0.75-0.78; MTL 0.41-0.45; PpH 0.09-0.08; PpL 0.34-0.35; SI 108-114; SL 0.60-0.68.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="171" pageNumber="172" type="comments">
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<paragraph pageId="171" pageNumber="172">Comments.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="171" pageNumber="172">
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There seems little doubt that this uncommon ant has a very localized distribution on the Swan Coastal Plain in WA from about Perth to south of Geraldton. Only the minor worker is known. Just two collections have been recorded; one from Eneabba and one from Yanchep National Park. The species resembles
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. biroi" pageId="171" pageNumber="172" rank="species" species="biroi">M. biroi</taxonomicName>
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but has a few, short, erect setae on the pronotum, and is very dull and matt in appearance with the cuticular pattern on the mesosoma a fine, reticulate mesh. No specimens were available for sequencing and there are no ecological data.
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<subSubSection pageId="171" pageNumber="172" type="etymology">
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<paragraph pageId="171" pageNumber="172">Etymology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="171" pageNumber="172">
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Latin latus (
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘broad’">'broad'</normalizedToken>
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) plus Latinized Greek notus (Greek notos
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘back’">'back'</normalizedToken>
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); adjective in the nominative singular.
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<caption pageId="171" pageNumber="172">
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Figure 38.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Melophorus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melophorus latinotus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="171" pageNumber="172" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="latinotus">Melophorus latinotus</taxonomicName>
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sp. n.: minor worker holotype (JDM32-002004) frons (a), profile (b) and dorsum (c); distribution map for the species (d). Low resolution scale bars: 0.5 mm (b, c); 0.2 mm (a).
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