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<mods:title>Systematics of the Monomorium rothsteini Forel species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a problematic ant group in Australia</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Sparks, Kathryn S.</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000, and Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, and School of Earth &amp; Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, 5005, Australia</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Austin, Andrew D.</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, and School of Earth &amp; Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, 5005, Australia</mods:affiliation>
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Sparks
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(
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Fig.
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jl,
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f)
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.
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,
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,
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Falls
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,
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Jul
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</collectingDate>
</date>
,
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, TERC
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(deposited in
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.
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.
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workers
</specimenCount>
, same data as holotype;
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workers
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,
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,
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Falls
</location>
camp,
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Sep
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</collectingDate>
</date>
,
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, TERC
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;
</materialsCitation>
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2007-07-18" collectorName="A. Andersen" latitude="-14.2333" location="Mitchell Falls" longLatPrecision="7" longitude="125.6833" municipality="Kimberley Region" pageId="30" pageNumber="519" specimenCount="9" specimenCount-worker="9">
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workers
</specimenCount>
<collectingMunicipality box="[1112,1326,978,1003]" pageId="30" pageNumber="519">Kimberley Region</collectingMunicipality>
,
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Falls
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,
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,
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Jul
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</collectingDate>
</date>
,
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, TERC
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;
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workers
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,
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<taxonomicName box="[1004,1099,1014,1039]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Monomorium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="30" pageNumber="526" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mitchell">Mitchell</taxonomicName>
Plateau Fire Study
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,
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</number>
,
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<collectingDate box="[270,375,1051,1075]" pageId="30" pageNumber="519" value="2007-06">
Jun
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</collectingDate>
</date>
,
<collectorName box="[386,498,1051,1074]" pageId="30" pageNumber="519">J. Lanoue</collectorName>
, TERC
<number box="[587,601,1050,1075]" pageId="30" pageNumber="519" value="6.0">6</number>
(deposited in
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,
<collectionCode box="[837,900,1051,1075]" collectionName="Australia, South Australia, Adelaide, South Australian Museum" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/mhew-9czz" name="South African Museum" pageId="30" pageNumber="519">SAM</collectionCode>
,
<collectionCode LSID="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34981" box="[912,986,1051,1075]" collectionName="Australia, Western Australia, Perth, Western Australian Museum" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34981" name="Western Australian Museum" pageId="30" pageNumber="519">WAM</collectionCode>
).
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</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,321,1086,1111]" pageId="30" pageNumber="519">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
A medium sized species with a deeply concave clypeus, strigate frons and sculpture mesonotum. T
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is finely reticulate over anterior half.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,550,1158,1183]" pageId="30" pageNumber="519">
Worker measurements (n=
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).
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HW
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, HL
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, EL
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, PMH
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,
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, PNH
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, LHW
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, EW
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, PML
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, ML
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, PL
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, PNWdv
<number box="[151,266,1231,1255]" pageId="30" pageNumber="519" value="0.26" valueMax="0.31" valueMin="0.21">0.210.31</number>
.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,444,1266,1291]" pageId="30" pageNumber="519">Worker Description.</emphasis>
Medium sized species with a medium sized, rectangular head; posterior cephalic margin straight to slightly concave. Anterodorsal margin of the clypeus deeply concave with frontolateral carinae produced anteriorly, extending well beyond anteroventral margin, with acute anterolateral angles and with small, rounded, preapical teeth or nodules; anteroventral margin with or without a small median projection. Frons strigate, extending well above antennal lobes; coarse lateral cephalic strigae reach anterior eye margin. Eyes medium, EW
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x LHW, number of ommatidia in longest vertical axis,
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and
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longest horizontal axis.
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Mesonotum strigulate with shallow alveolae in between strigulae over entire surface posteriad of promesonotal suture or with sculpture restricted to lateral curvature, metanotal groove and posterior mesonotum. Mesopleuron alveolate with a few strigae extending anteriorly from metanotal groove. Propodeum in lateral view with dorsolateral angles clearly forming an obtuse angle, sculpture alveolate, laterally with strigae extending over metapleural gland bulla and extending between spiracle and posterodorsal corner in some specimens; dorsally with prominent transverse anterior ridge and transverse and longitudinal strigae present. Petiole node of moderate width, between
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and
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x eye width when viewed from above, oval in shape in posterior view, anterior and posterior faces converging to a broadly rounded dorsum in lateral view. Petiole and postpetiole finely reticulate, sculpture not extending onto dorsal surface. T
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finely reticulate, covering at least anterior half of surface.
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<paragraph blockId="30.[151,1437,870,1975]" pageId="30" pageNumber="519">Head, mesosoma and legs light to dark amber orange, some specimens with mesosoma and legs infuscated, petiole and postpetiole infuscated on dorsal half, metasomal tergites dark brown, sternites amber, hairs dull yellow.</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="30.[151,1437,870,1975]" pageId="30" pageNumber="519">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,352,1878,1903]" pageId="30" pageNumber="519">Distribution.</emphasis>
This species is known from the Kimberley region of Western
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and far northern areas in the Northern Territory including Melville Island. Its range overlaps with
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<emphasis box="[976,1116,1915,1938]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="519">M. geminum</emphasis>
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/
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<emphasis box="[1219,1333,1915,1939]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="519">M. topend</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis box="[151,314,1951,1974]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="519">M. maryannae</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis box="[461,589,1950,1974]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="519">M. mitchell</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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</subSubSection>
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<paragraph blockId="31.[151,1436,151,464]" pageId="31" pageNumber="520">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,382,151,176]" pageId="31" pageNumber="520">
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sequences
</emphasis>
. Genbank accession numbers for this species are
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KC
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,
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KC
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</accessionNumber>
,
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KC
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</accessionNumber>
and
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KC
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</accessionNumber>
.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,898,223,248]" pageId="31" pageNumber="520">
Additional material examined
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(
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). Western
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.
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Falls, Kimberley region, -
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,
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Jul
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</date>
, A. Andersen TERC
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, Kimberley Monitoring Program 0 0
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,
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River NP, -
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,
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, K. Carnes.
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</emphasis>
<materialsCitation pageId="31" pageNumber="520">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[285,524,295,320]" pageId="31" pageNumber="520">Northern Territory.</emphasis>
Nguiu, Bathurst Is., -
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,
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<number box="[951,979,296,320]" pageId="31" pageNumber="520" value="24.0">24</number>
Sep
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</date>
, B. Hoffmann; GanGan, NE Arnhem Land, -
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,
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<number box="[502,516,333,356]" pageId="31" pageNumber="520" value="7.0">7</number>
Nov
<number box="[583,642,332,356]" pageId="31" pageNumber="520" value="2002.0">2002</number>
</date>
, B. Hoffmann;
</materialsCitation>
<materialsCitation pageId="31" pageNumber="520">
<collectionCode box="[823,921,332,356]" pageId="31" pageNumber="520">PWCNT</collectionCode>
Tiwi Island Fauna Survey, -
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,
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, J. Woinarski; Maxwell Creek, Melville Island, -
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,
<date box="[821,961,368,392]" pageId="31" pageNumber="520" value="2008-06-27">
<number box="[821,849,368,392]" pageId="31" pageNumber="520" value="27.0">27</number>
Jun
<number box="[902,961,368,392]" pageId="31" pageNumber="520" value="2008.0">2008</number>
</date>
, B. Hoffmann.
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</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="31" pageNumber="520" type="etymology">
<paragraph blockId="31.[151,1436,151,464]" pageId="31" pageNumber="520">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,334,404,429]" pageId="31" pageNumber="520">Etymology.</emphasis>
The specific name is taken from the Latin word for “pool” and refers to the pools of water that are found at the
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locality
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Falls.
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</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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