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))     Preapical tooth  (Pretarsal claw without preapical tooth)     Eye size  (Eye larger, with a distinct convex cornea; anteroventral tooth of petiole poorly developed or absent)

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


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

  Option 1

Dorsal and declining surface of propodeum forming a slight angle at its juncture; posterolateral border of pronotum separated from mesothorax by a distinct "V-shaped" suture

  Option 2

Dorsal surface of propodeum gradually rounding into the declining surface; posterolateral suture between the pronotum and mesothorax shorter and not distinctly V-shaped

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Neivamyrmex nigrescens
(Alex Wild 2003)