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How to Use the Keys
The identification keys used
here are based on the traditional paper-based dicotomous key. They work
in essentially the same way but are clickable with links to the next couplet
and to taxon details. A typical page (or couplet) is similar to this:
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Key to the Subfamilies
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Mandibles elongate and
linear, with teeth only at the extreme tip (fig. a), and attached
close together along the front margin of the head (fig. b).  |
Mandibles triangular,
with teeth along the entire inner margin (fig. aa), and with their
attachments at the outer corners of the front margin of the head
(fig. bb).  |
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Ponerinae
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3 taxa: Dolichoderinae, Formicinae, Nothomyrmeciinae
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The upper panel contains a
pair of characters or set of characters while the middle panel illustrates
these characters. The bottom panel contains a list of the taxa which share
these characters. Choose the character or set of characters which best
fit the specimen being identified. Clicking on the arrows in the upper
panel or the figures in the middle panel will move to the next set of
characters. Continue selecting the characters which best fit the specimen
until only a single name remains in the bottom panel. Clicking on this
name will retreive information about the newly identified specimen.
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