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)

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:  Shape of gaster

  Option 1

Gaster's largest segments (true abdominal segments 4 and 5) swollen and curved, so that the gastral apex is turned downwards and directed to the front of the body

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Proceratium species gaster
(Japanese Ant Image Database)

  Option 2

Not as above