Temnothorax annexus (Baroni Urbani, 1931)
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https://doi.org/ 10.7717/peerj.11514 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5102459 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/054FDB70-FF9B-FF86-B49C-1F387D842024 |
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Diego |
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Temnothorax annexus |
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annexus group overview
Consisting of five species (four of which are newly described here), the annexus group is a relatively small one, with a range spanning the low-to-mid elevations of the American southwest to central Mexico ( Fig. 95 View Figure 95 ). Although collections for many of these species are scant, all nest collections so far have been from habitats associated with vegetation, either from epiphytes ( Temnothorax annexus ) or from hollow branches and stems on live vegetation ( T. arbustus sp. nov., T. balnearius sp. nov., T. obtusigaster sp. nov., and T. quercicola sp. nov.). As collections accumulate, this may prove to be the rule. Temnothorax quercicola sp. nov. has a long history of being conflated with T. silvestrii , to the extent that Creighton (1953) described the male and gyne of T. quercicola sp. nov. as T. silvestrii . The two species are superficially similar, but T. silvestrii belongs to another clade entirely (the sallei clade), in yet another example of convergent evolution in Temnothorax . See the comments under T. quercicola sp. nov. below for a more detailed discussion. These species are large, and typically have an emarginate clypeus, short petiolar peduncle, subquadrate petiolar node, and incrassate femora.
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