petiolar node reduced or absent

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

The petiolar node greatly reduced or absent, the anterior face absent or at most indistinct. Used in Antkey to separate Brachymyrmex, Tapinoma and Technomyrmex from various other genera in Dolichoderinae and Formicinae.

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