1-segmented waist

Licence: 
Creative Commons Licence
Imaging technique: 
Illustration
Keywords: 
waist (Image keywords), petiole (Image keywords)
Description: 

The mesosoma and gaster connected by a single waist segment referred to as the petiole (abdominal segment 2). Used in Antkey to separate Amblyoponinae, Dolichoderinae, Ectatomminae, Formicinae and Ponerinae from Cerapachys, Myrmicinae and Pseudomyrmecinae.

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