Dolichoderinae: key to genera, couplet 1

Dolichoderinae: key to genera couplet 1
Key: modified from Wheeler & Wheeler (1963), Hölldobler & Wilson (1990), Bolton (1994)

Taxa remaining

Dolichoderus
Dorymyrmex
Forelius
Tapinoma

Figure 15. Dolichoderus: Dolichoderus pustulatus

Figure 16. Dolichoderinae: Dolichoderus taschenbergi

Figures 17 & 18. Dolichoderinae: Dorymyrmex pyramicus

1.Integument thick, hard, and strongly scultpured (Fig. 15); head with foveolate (pit-like) punctures (Fig. 16: 1a).
...Dolichoderus

Integument this and flexible, densely but weakly sculptured (Fig. 17); head without foveolate punctures (Fig. 18).
...2

Profile and full face view of a worker Dolichoderus sp. from Australia

Subfamily: Genus: D. flavus McCook

Dolichoderus Dolichoderus D. grandulus (Forel)

<> Hypoclinea D. insanus (Buckley)

D. mariae Forel MN, Cedar creek

w149
D. plagiatus (Mayr) MN, Cedar creek

D. pustulatus Mayr

D. pyramicus (Roger) MN, McKnight

w149
D. taschenbergi (Mayr) MN, Cedar creek

D. plagiatus (Mayr)

D. pustulatus Mayr

D. taschenbergi (Mayr)

Notes: less dietary specialization, repugnatorial glands against others, some in wetland

Genus Dolichoderus Lund Ø‰VDƒ›
taprobanae (F. Smith), 1858: Tang et al., 1995: 86. d¬P°Ø‰VD
thoracicus (F. Smith, 1860): Shattuck, 1994: 69; - Bolton, 1995: 177. ¬ ¨—Ø[º¸VD

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1.Integument thick, hard, and strongly scultpured (Fig. 15); head with foveolate (pit-like) punctures (Fig. 16: 1a).	...Dolichoderus
Integument this and flexible, densely but weakly sculptured (Fig. 17); head without foveolate punctures (Fig. 18).	...2

Subfamily:	Genus:	D. flavus McCook
Dolichoderus	Dolichoderus	D. grandulus (Forel)
	<> Hypoclinea	D. insanus (Buckley)
		D. mariae Forel	MN, Cedar creek
w149		D. plagiatus (Mayr)	MN, Cedar creek
		D. pustulatus Mayr
		D. pyramicus (Roger)	MN, McKnight
w149		D. taschenbergi (Mayr)	MN, Cedar creek