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 more than one lens)     Spines on alitrunk  (Alitrunk with spines)

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


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

  Option 1

 Head with long hairs forming a basket on ventral side; body usually 1 color (either reddish or black)

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Pogonomyrmex barbatus
(modified from Alex Wild 2003)

  Option 2

 Ventral side of head and mandibles without basket-like series of hairs