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Tatuidris

 * ... that Tatuidris tatusia (pictured) is the only ant species with an antenna socket apparatus sitting upside-down?
 * Reviewed: Hadronyche cerberea
 * Comment: This article is based on a Creative Commons-licensed article by D.A. Donoso, published in Zootaxa (see Talk:Tatuidris), which could mean that it fails the first DYK critera, "[articles] may not consist of text spun off from a pre-existing article". But, 1) the content is not spun off from a pre-existing Wikipedia article, and 2) while some sections are identical or nearly identical to Donoso's article, other have been heavily rewritten and modified, and I've added more than 1,500 characters of my own writing. Since I've spend way more time on this article than any of my other ~20 DYKs, I WP:IAR nominate this article for DYK.
 * The Keller (2011) reference used in the hook reads: "Despite the great diversity found across Formicidae in the antennal socket apparatus, this complex structure retains its relative orientation within the cranium; the central basal portion of the socket sits on a horizontal plane on the cranial dorsum and the antennifer points upward. This state can be described as dorsal (state 0). The only known exception occurs in Tatuidris tatusia, where the socket apparatus sits upside-down on the roof of the greatly expanded frontal lobe and the antennifer points almost downward (state 1)."
 * Donoso (2012): "Workers of Tatuidris present a distinctive morphology (Figure 1), consisting of a shield-like head with a broad vertex, ventrally-turned heavy mandibles which do not overlap at full closure, deep antennal scrobes with eyes at or close to their apex, compact and fused mesosoma, 7-segmented antenna, first gastral segment ventrally directed, and unique among ants—an antenna socket apparatus sitting upside down on the roof of the expanded frontal lobe (first described in Keller 2011, see his figures 12B and 12C)."

Created by Jonkerz (talk). Self nominated at 17:59, 1 September 2013 (UTC).


 * Yes, the "text spun off from an existing article" clause only applies to other Wikipedia articles, obviously. A few verbatim text from CC-BY licensed articles are also fine.


 * Thank you for providing direct quotes from the immediate sources. And yep certainly checks out. I recommend shortening the section title "Taxonomy summary" (a bit awkward) to "Taxonomy" (as per convention in other taxon articles, and it's already understood to be a summary of the taxonomic history of the subject).


 * I'm also concerned about the prevalence of technical terms without attempts to explain them in layman's terms or wikilinking them (for example, it is not explained that pilosity means the amount of setae on the ants' bodies), but that's not really a problem for DYK. More if you want to take this further up to GA and beyond. I would also recommend wikilinking more terms. Particularly in the lead (e.g. genus, species, Central America, South America, Mexico, Brazil, family, subfamily, etc. should all be linked on the first instances that they occur in text).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Other than that, good to go. New enough, long enough, within policy, etc. Picture nicely complements the hook as well.-- O BSIDIAN  †  S OUL  07:44, 15 September 2013 (UTC)