pronotal spines weakly arching

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Creative Commons Licence
Imaging technique: 
Illustration
Keywords: 
mesosoma (Image keywords), promesonotum (Image keywords), pronotal spines (Image keywords)
Description: 

The pronotal spines are straight, or weakly arching anteriorly. This character may be informative for separating Atta sexdens from Atta cephalotes, but attine pronotal spines show considerable infraspecific variation and this character may well prove unreliable, and thus must be used with caution.

Creator: 
Eli Sarnat
Taxonomic name: 
Atta sexdens (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