Myrmicinae: key to genera, couplet 10

Myrmicinae: key to genera couplet 10
Key: modified from Wheeler & Wheeler (1963), Hölldobler & Wilson (1990), Bolton (1994)

Taxa remaining

Manica*#
Myrmica
Pogonomoyrmex*

Figure 81. Myrmicinae: Pogonomyrmex

Figure 82. Myrmicinae: Myrmica sculptilis Det. A. Francoeur 1997

10.Palp formula 5,3; psamophore (basket-like series of long, curved hairs arising on the ventral surfaces of the head and mandibles [Bolton 1994]) present (Fig. 81).
(collected in Kansas, North Dakota, and South Dakota) ...Pogonomyrmex*

Palp formula 6,4; psamophore absent (Fig. 82). ...11.

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10.Palp formula 5,3; psamophore (basket-like series of long, curved hairs arising on the ventral surfaces of the head and mandibles [Bolton 1994]) present (Fig. 81). (collected in Kansas, North Dakota, and South Dakota)	...Pogonomyrmex*
Palp formula 6,4; psamophore absent (Fig. 82).	...11.