Antkey

ID guide | introduced ants

dense pelt of short hairs lacking

Licence: 
Lisensi Creative Commons
Imaging technique: 
Illustration
Keywords: 
mesosoma (Image keywords), hairs (Image keywords), erect hairs (Image keywords)
Description: 

The dorsum of the mesosoma lacking a dense pelt of short, semierect hairs. If there are any hairs other than the long flexuous ones, they are very sparse. Used in Antkey to separate Strumigenys lewisi from Strumigenys godeffroyi.

Creator: 
Eli Sarnat
Taxonomic name: 
Strumigenys lewisi (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