Nylanderia pubens, Williams & Zhang & LaPolla & Schultz & Lucky, 2022

Williams, Jason L., Zhang, Y. Miles, LaPolla, John S., Schultz, Ted R. & Lucky, Andrea, 2022, Phylogenomic Delimitation of Morphologically Cryptic Species in Globetrotting Nylanderia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Species Complexes, Insect Systematics and Diversity 6 (1), pp. 1-15 : 6

Nylanderia fulva Complex

Monophyly of the fulva complex is strongly supported by the global ML phylogeny ( Fig. 2), the unphased MSC phylogeny ( Fig. 4A), and the phased MSC phylogeny ( Fig. 4B). In all three analyses, a single N. pubens sample from Florida (Ny087), the identity of which was based on male morphological diagnostic characters ( Gotzek et al. 2012), is nested within the N. fulva supercolony (see below) from the United States with strong support. This specimen is most closely related to specimens identified as N. cf. fulva from St. Martin in the Caribbean and Lanzarote Taniche in The Canary Islands. In total, the fulva complex includes at least four morphospecies sampled for this study: N. fulva , N. pubens , N. sp. Per2 from Peru (undescribed), and N. sp. FG05 from French Guiana (undescribed).