. Collected papers on ants. Ants. 3 14 Bulletin American Museum of Natural History. [Vol. XXI, in the pine-barrens about Lakehurst, New Jersey. I have received from Mr. H. L. Viereck a single female belonging either to this variety or to the preceding subspecies. It was collected at Pablo Beach, Florida, April 8, by Mr. P. Laurent. As the gaster is lacking, the specimen cannot be more accurately identified. The Relationships and Habits of the North American dolichoderi. A comparison of the foregoing Dolichoderi with one another and with the palasarctic D. quadripunctatus suggests a common ance
. Collected papers on ants. Ants. 3 14 Bulletin American Museum of Natural History. [Vol. XXI, in the pine-barrens about Lakehurst, New Jersey. I have received from Mr. H. L. Viereck a single female belonging either to this variety or to the preceding subspecies. It was collected at Pablo Beach, Florida, April 8, by Mr. P. Laurent. As the gaster is lacking, the specimen cannot be more accurately identified. The Relationships and Habits of the North American dolichoderi. A comparison of the foregoing Dolichoderi with one another and with the palasarctic D. quadripunctatus suggests a common ancestral form for both the Old and New World species. D. plagiatus, especially, seems to be very closely related to quadripunctatus; the males of the two species being, in fact, almost indistinguishable. Among the American species we can pass, on the one hand, from the highly foveolate plagiatus through successively smoother subspecies like pustulatus and davisi to the very smooth and brightly colored marice. The typical taschenbergi, on the other hand, with its extremely melanistic variety gagates, may also be derived from some smoother form of plagiatus, like pustulatus. These hypothetical derivations are indicated in the following diagram: taschenbergi var. gagates subsp. davisi. subsp. piistidatiis var. bcuteiinniclleri quadriptwc/atus plagiatus var. inornatiis Dolichoderus. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wheeler, William Morton, 1865-1937.
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