Antkey

ID guide | introduced ants

head heart-shaped

Licence: 
Lisensi Creative Commons
Imaging technique: 
Illustration
Keywords: 
head (Image keywords), head shape (Image keywords)
Description: 

The head of the soldier is somewhat heart-shaped with the evenly rounded posterolateral lobes bulging laterally and the head attenuating anteriorly. Used in Antkey to separate majors of Pheidole megacephala from other majors of other Pheidole.

Creator: 
Eli Sarnat
Taxonomic name: 
Pheidole megacephala (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