no small teeth anterior to spines

Licence: 
Creative Commons Licence
Imaging technique: 
Illustration
Keywords: 
head (Image keywords), cephalic spines (Image keywords)
Description: 

The head anterior to the posterolateral spines is smooth and not interrupted by a pair of small teeth or blunt angles. Used in Antkey to separate Atta cephalotes from Atta sexdens. This is a variable character, and should be used with caution until its usefulness is confirmed.

Creator: 
Eli Sarnat
Taxonomic name: 
Atta cephalotes (Taxa)
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith