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)

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:  Spines on alitrunk

  Option 1

Alitrunk with spines

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Atta texana
(minor worker; Barrett Klein 2003)

  Option 2

Alitrunk without spines

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Solenopsis geminata
(Japanese Ant Image Database)