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Ponerinae
  • Gaster with strangulation between seg1 and seg2
  • Clypeus (Cly) reduced or vestigial
  • Strangulation of gaster between (seg1 & seg2) not very marked or absent
  • Sting always present, well developed and functional
  • Whole Palearctic
    • Dorylus (soldier)
  • Eye reduced to a single ommatidium or absent
  • Cly and (∆fr) absent
  • Antennal sockets not concealed by frontal carinae
  • Armament of Pyg consisting solely of a single pair of posteriorly directed short spines situated posterolaterally, Hypo always unarmed, and promesonotal suture present
  • France, Eurasian tropics and subtropics Dorylus fulvus fulvus
  • Eye always present, with numerous ommatidia
  • Cly and ∆fr present and Cly never between the carinae
  • Hypo with a circular acidopore, surrounded by long setae
  • Whole Palearctic
    • AD group
  • Eye always present, with numerous ommatidia
  • Cly posterior sized by the antennal sockets and ∆fr vestigial or absent
  • Suture between mesopleuron and metapleuron and the meso-propodeal suture are brighter
  • Sting vestigial or absent, in many cases not visible without dissection
  • Whole Palearctic