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: 2b 5b 14a) (collected in Kansas, North Dakota, and South Dakota)(none in TW)
...Pogonomyrmex*

Palp formula 6,4; psamophore absent (Fig. 82: 2b 5b 14b).
...11.

Subfamily: Genus: P. apache Wheeler, W.M.

Myrmicinae Pogonomyrmex P. barbatus (F.Smith)

P. comanche Wheeler, W.M.

P. maricopa Wheeler, W.M.

P. occidentalis (Cresson)

P. rugosus Emery

Notes: painful sting, true harvester ant, dry seed, psammophore, some may live in western MN

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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: 2b 5b 14a) (collected in Kansas, North Dakota, and South Dakota)(none in TW)	...Pogonomyrmex*
Palp formula 6,4; psamophore absent (Fig. 82: 2b 5b 14b).	...11.

Subfamily:	Genus:	P. apache Wheeler, W.M.
Myrmicinae	Pogonomyrmex	P. barbatus (F.Smith)
		P. comanche Wheeler, W.M.
		P. maricopa Wheeler, W.M.
		P. occidentalis (Cresson)
		P. rugosus Emery