Keys

Just a list of helpful keys (and related resources) in alphabetical order that I'll update over time. Feel free to make any suggestions.

A

Aphaenogaster

Key to Aphaenogaster species in the southeastern US
Especially helpful for the fulva-rudis-texana complex.
Review of the Aphaenogaster splendida Species-Group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Includes a queen key!

C

Camponotus

Camponotus of the Eastern Seaboard | Worker Key

Cephalotes

A taxonomic study of the Brazilian turtle ants (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Cephalotes)

Crematogaster

Taxonomy in the phylogenomic era: species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships among North American ants of the Crematogaster scutellaris group (Formicidae: Hymenoptera)

D

Dorymyrmex

Key to Dorymyrmex species in or possible in MS and AL
smithi should refer to medeis due to their ranges.

F

Formica

A tentative key to workers in the Formica sanguinea species group
Key to Nearctic Formica fusca group workers
Key to Nearctic species in the Formica rufa group
All included species are now members of the integra group.
Key to New England Formica
Key to US Formica pallidefulva group species
Which happens to be all of them.

G

Gnamptogenys

Additions to the taxonomy of Gnamptogenys Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ectatomminae) with an updated key to the New World species
Includes all species that were included in the genus at the time of publishing; some are now placed in Alfaria, Holcoponera, and Poneracantha.

H

Hypoponera

Key to Hypoponera species in the southeastern United States

L

Lasius

Tentative Key to Nearctic Parasitic Lasius Queens
Currently incomplete, but covers most common ones with considerable orange coloration.

N

Nylanderia

Key to species of Nylanderia in the southeastern United States

P

Pachycondyla

The systematics and biology of the New World ants of the genus Pachycondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Some species included in the keys have been moved to other genera, such as Neoponera.

Pheidole

Identifying Small Southeastern Pheidole species
Key to Pheidole crassicornis group
Key to Pheidole species in the southeastern United States
Includes this undescribed crassicornis group species.

Polyrhachis

Key to Polyrhachis of India
Key to Polyrhachis (Polyrhachis) species

Ponera

Key to Ponera species in the southeastern United States
Includes queens.

Proceratium

Key to Proceratium species in the southeastern United States

Pseudomyrmex

Key to species of Pseudomyrmex workers (except P. leptosus of which worker is unknown) in the southeastern United States

S

Solenopsis

Key to Solenopsis species in the southeastern United States

Strumigenys

The ant genus Strumigenys Smith, 1860 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in western North America north of Mexico

T

Tetramorium

Key to Tetramorium species in the southeastern United States

Trachymyrmex

Key to US Trachymyrmex
Includes those now under Mycetomoellerius.

Posted on 04 de junho de 2022, 08:48 PM by arman_ arman_

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