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Acknowledgements The authors wish to express their
sincere thanks to Dr. Abraham Verghese, Director, NBAII,
Bangalore, for financial assistance and providing the nec-
essary facilities required for our research. The authors are
also thankful to Dr. PDN Hebert of Biodiversity Institute
of Ontario, Canada, for his useful suggestions and advice,
and Drs. CA Viraktamath and TM Mushtak Ali of Univer-
sity of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK Campus, Bangalore,
for their useful suggestions, corrections, and proper clas-
sification of ant species.
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