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Cerapachyinae

Dolichoderinae

Ecitoninae

Formicinae

Myrmicinae

poneromorphs

Pseudomyrmecinae  

Links

Jack Longino's Ants of Costa Rica

American Museum Social Insects website

William and Emma Mackay Ants of North America site

Gordon and Roy Snelling New World Army Ants

Notes from Underground

sF ....the poneromorphs

Well, we all knew that the Ponerinae was lumped. As I finish the following pages I will rearrange this table to reflect Bolton's revision of the Formicidae.

Update

Nomenclature

"Named species" represents the current tally of species for which we have reasonable identifications. Since this list is compiled from a number of sources (see home page) for which I have no access to specimens, I have also provided an estimated list of species based on this currently published work.  This "Estimated species" can also translate roughly to "wild-ass guess" without the loss of too much meaning.

A word about the species names. All species names and authorities conform to Bolton (1995) supplemented by more recent literature.  The taxa without an official Latin binomial are unpublished. Here is a key:

PSW unpublished=Phil Ward (UC Davis)—these are working species codes based on Ward’s study of Pseudomyrmex.

JTL Morphospecies=Jack Longino (Evergreen State College)—many of these are species codes from Longino's study of the La Selva fauna.

SC / JT / MEK Morphospecies=These represent species that failed to match existing collections at the MCZ. SC=Stefan Cover, curatorial assistant  and JT=John Tobin, both at the Museum of Comparative Zoology and MEK= Mike Kaspari, University of Oklahoma. A fair number of MEK morphospecies are alates.