Search Path - How you got here.  Click on the path to backtrack.
  Number of segments between alitrunk and gaster  (2 segments (petiole and postpetiole) are reduced or isolated between the alitrunk and the gaster)     Eye size  (Eye composed of single, small lens (blister eye))

Identity - What this specimen is (based on the available information).
Family - Formicidae,  Subfamily - Ecitoninae


Diagnostic - How to further narrow the specimen's identity.  Select the most appropriate option.
Feature to examine:  Preapical tooth

  Option 1

Pretarsal claw with preapical tooth

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Labidus coecus
(Smith 1965)

  Option 2

Pretarsal claw without preapical tooth