Search Path - How you got here.  Click on the path to backtrack.
  Number of segments between alitrunk and gaster  (Only 1 segment (the petiole) is reduced or isolated between the alitrunk and gaster)     Acidipore  (Acidipore absent)     Sting  (Sting present; pygidium unarmed)     Shape of gaster  (Not as above)

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


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

  Option 1

Petiole broadly attached
Long mandibles

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Amblyopone pallipes body
(Creighton 1950)

  Option 2

Petiole narrowly attached

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Hypoponera opacior body
(Creighton 1950)