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Fig. 25 in Ant systematics: past, present, and future

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  • 1. Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • 2. C. P. Gillette Museum, Department of Agricultural Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
  • 3. Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods,Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT, Australia

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Fig. 25. Global regions in need of ant biodiversity exploration. Colored areas correspond to the distribution of ant rarity centers predicted using a random forest model by Kass et al. (2022, Figs. 4–6): in red, the empirical ant center predicted to fall out of the top 10% with future sampling, in purple, the empirical ant centers robust to future sampling, in blue, the "missing̎ ant centers predicted to be revealed with future sampling, and in gray, the ant centers not currently or not predicted to be present. Gray dots correspond to the specific regions that have been identified as the highest priority regions that could harbor hidden ant diversity, either due to lack of exploration or due to lack of knowledge. Labels refer to: Afrotropical: R01, Chad, Central Africa (Chen and Ding 2022). R02, Eastern Central Africa (Kass et al. 2022). R03, South and Southeastern Africa (Kass et al. 2022). R04, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Burkina Faso, West Africa (Chen and Ding 2022). R05,Western Central Africa (Kass et al. 2022). Australasia: R06, Australian Monsoonal (seasonal) Tropics (Andersen et al. 2023). R07, Melanesia (Kass et al. 2022). R08, Australia, North Kimberley bioregion (Cross et al. 2016). Indomalayan: R09, Himalaya, Nepal and Northeast India (Kass et al. 2022). R10, Indian States of Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh (Bharti et al. 2016). R11, Bhutan, South Asia (Chen and Ding 2022). R12, Southeast Asia (Kass et al. 2022). R13,The Western Ghats and Sri Lanka (Kass et al. 2022). Nearctic: R14, México (northwestern), Sierra Madre Occidental (Kass et al. 2022). Neotropic: R15, Bolivia (Fernández et al. 2021). R16, Central America (Fernández et al. 2021). R17, Chaco, Chaco region (Fernández et al. 2021). R18, Colombia, Chocó-Darién moist forest (Fernández et al. 2021). R19, northwestern Brazil and portions of the Cerrado savanna (Fernández et al. 2021). R20, Mexico, Sierra Madre Oriental and Sur andTrans-Mexican Volcanic regions (Kass et al. 2022, Rocha‐Ortega et al. 2023). R21,The Guiana Shield (Kass et al. 2022). R22,Yungas Rainforest (Fernández et al. 2021). Palearctic: R23, Jordan, Kuwait,West Asia (Chen and Ding 2022).

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Published as part of JillT.Oberski, Griebenow, Zachary H., Adams, Rachelle M.M., Andersen, Alan, Andrade-Silva, Joudellys, Barden, Phillip, Borowiec, Marek L., Brady, Seán, Casadei-Ferreira, Alexandre, Csősz, Sándor, Dias, Amanda Martins, Dias, Ratnayake Kaluarachchige Sriyani, Feitosa, Rodrigo Machado, Fernandez, Fernando, Fisher, Brian L., General, David Emmanuel M., Gomez, Kikó, Hammel, Jörg U., Hawkes, Peter G. & Janda, Milan, 2025, Ant systematics: past, present, and future, pp. 1-42 in Insect Systematics and Diversity 9 (4) on page 29, DOI: 10.1093/isd/ixaf025, http://zenodo.org/record/20503450

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