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<taxonomicName id="4C6B4D1EFFECFFE8F3D4D1BC3412F803" authority="Forel 1909" authorityName="Forel" authorityYear="1909" box="[151,567,1946,1970]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Brachymyrmex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aphidicola">
<emphasis id="B91FEA8FFFECFFE8F3D4D1BC379CF800" bold="true" box="[151,441,1946,1970]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Brachymyrmex aphidicola</emphasis>
Forel 1909
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.
<emphasis id="B91FEA8FFFECFFE8F101D1BC34CBF800" bold="true" box="[578,750,1946,1970]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">NEW STATUS</emphasis>
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.
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<taxonomicName id="4C6B4D1EFFECFFE8F384D19C378DF863" ID-CoL="MXR9" box="[199,424,1978,2001]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Brachymyrmex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="heeri">
<emphasis id="B91FEA8FFFECFFE8F384D19C378DF863" box="[199,424,1978,2001]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Brachymyrmex heeri</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="4C6B4D1EFFECFFE8F2F3D19C352EF863" authority="Forel 1909: 263" authorityName="Forel" authorityPageNumber="263" authorityYear="1909" box="[432,779,1978,2001]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" rank="variety" variety="aphidicola">
var.
<emphasis id="B91FEA8FFFECFFE8F2A3D19C3477F863" box="[480,594,1978,2001]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">aphidicola</emphasis>
Forel 1909: 263
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.
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<td id="768A5DA3FFEC003DF07FD19C35BFF863" box="[828,922,1978,2001]" gridcol="2" gridrow="1" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">syntypes</td>
<td id="768A5DA3FFEC003DF0E1D19C3235F863" box="[930,1040,1978,2001]" gridcol="3" gridrow="1" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">examined,</td>
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<td id="768A5DA3FFEC003DF66AD19C33BEF863" box="[1321,1435,1978,2001]" gridcol="7" gridrow="1" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Cordillera,</td>
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<th id="768A5DA3FFEC003DF3D4D1FC352AF843" box="[151,783,2010,2033]" gridcol="0" gridrow="2" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Paraguay (Fiebrig)].</th>
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<taxonomicName id="4C6B4D1EFFEDFFE9F384D6BE3783FF1D" ID-CoL="MXR9" box="[199,422,152,175]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Brachymyrmex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="heeri">
<emphasis id="B91FEA8FFFEDFFE9F384D6BE3783FF1D" box="[199,422,152,175]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Brachymyrmex heeri</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="4C6B4D1EFFEDFFE9F2EFD6BE34DFFF1D" ID-CoL="QDRM" authority="Santschi 1923a: 665" authorityName="Santschi" authorityPageNumber="665" authorityYear="1923" box="[428,762,152,175]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Camponotus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="variety" species="hispidus" variety="fallax">
var.
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Santschi 1923a: 665
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.
<emphasis id="B91FEA8FFFEDFFE9F047D6B135C9FF1D" bold="true" box="[772,1004,151,175]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">NEW SYNONYMY.</emphasis>
[
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examined, NHMB;
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(s. loc.)].
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There is little reason to consider
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<emphasis id="B91FEA8FFFEDFFE9F2B4D72634F2FEA5" box="[503,727,256,279]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Brachymyrmex heeri</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B91FEA8FFFEDFFE9F048D72635BEFEA5" box="[779,923,256,279]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">B. aphidicola</emphasis>
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as conspecific, as both species are locally sympatric and morphologically distinct in eastern
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.
<taxonomicName id="4C6B4D1EFFEDFFE9F1BAD7043231FE8B" box="[761,1044,290,313]" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Brachymyrmex" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aphidicola">
<emphasis id="B91FEA8FFFEDFFE9F1BAD7043231FE8B" box="[761,1044,290,313]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Brachymyrmex aphidicola</emphasis>
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is one of the most abundant ground and litter nesting ant species in Paraguayan forests.
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<emphasis id="B91FEA8FFFEDFFE9F180D7633586FEEE" box="[707,931,325,348]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Brachymyrmex heeri</emphasis>
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is more rarely collected, the two nest records I have from
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are both arboreal. The two species are easily separated by the pubescence on gastric tergite 1 (= abd. tergite 3), with the pubescence dense on
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<emphasis id="B91FEA8FFFEDFFE9F10AD7AC34B8FE13" box="[585,669,394,417]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">B. heeri</emphasis>
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and sparse on
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<emphasis id="B91FEA8FFFEDFFE9F07FD7AC35EEFE13" box="[828,971,394,417]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">B. aphidicola</emphasis>
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. Santschis
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of
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<emphasis id="B91FEA8FFFEDFFE9F7DDD7AC3313FE13" box="[1182,1334,394,417]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">B. heeri fallax</emphasis>
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(NHMB, examined) falls within the range of variation exhibited by
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<emphasis id="B91FEA8FFFEDFFE9F042D78B35B5FE76" box="[769,912,429,452]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">B. aphidicola</emphasis>
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in
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and is synonymized here. It is worth mentioning here that Paraguayan specimens of
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<emphasis id="B91FEA8FFFEDFFE9F1CDD7F634C7FE55" box="[654,738,464,487]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">B. heeri</emphasis>
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are a close match, in both the worker and queen castes, to Forels
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of
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<emphasis id="B91FEA8FFFEDFFE9F3B0D7D43762FDBB" box="[243,327,498,521]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">B. heeri</emphasis>
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(MHNG, examined) described from an introduced population in
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(Forel 1874).
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Given the notoriously poor taxonomic state of
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<emphasis id="B91FEA8FFFEDFFE9F1FED433357BFD9E" box="[701,862,533,556]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Brachymyrmex</emphasis>
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and the ubiquity of
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<emphasis id="B91FEA8FFFEDFFE9F77AD43332ECFD9E" box="[1081,1225,533,556]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">B. aphidicola</emphasis>
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in the region, there may well exist an older name for this species. A thorough taxonomic revision of this genus is sorely needed.
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