(major worker)
(major worker)
(minor worker)
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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) Psammophore (Ventral side of head and mandibles without basket-like series of hairs) Postpetiole attachment (Postpetiole attached to front surface of first gastral segment; petiole with a node and not dorsoventrally flattened) Tubercles (Dorsal surface of body not covered with tubercles) Number of spines on alitrunk (1-2 pairs of spines on alitrunk) Antennal club (Antenna with 3-segmented club) Head size (Large, broad-headed major workers contrast with much smaller minor workers with proportionately much narrower heads) Cylindrical head (Head not cylindrical) Antennal scape (Antennal scape of major worker not bent at base) Occipital lobes (Tops of the occipital lobes of major workers, and usually the fronts of their faces covered in sculpture)
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| Description: Tops of the occipital lobes of major workers, and usually the fronts of their faces covered in sculpture; anterior border of the clypeus of the major with a deep semicircular emargination which extends inward almost to the level of the frontal lobes | ||
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| Pheidole tepicana head (major worker) |
P. tepicana body (major worker) |
P. tepicana body (minor worker) |