KEY TO SUBFAMILIES
workers and females
1 Well differentiated postpetiole segment present (Figs. 14, 51)
2
-- Postpetiole segment absent (Figs. 16, 19) 4
2 (1) Frontal carinae, narrow, not expanded laterally, antennal sockets fully exposed in frontal view (Figs. 31, 33)

3
-- Frontal carinae expanded laterad, antennal sockets at least covered in frontal view (Figs. 60, 107, etc.)
Myrmicinae
3 (2) Eye large and covering much of side of head, consisting of hundreds of ommatidia (Fig. 52); female mesosoma with flight sclerites

Pseudomyrmecinae
-- Eye absent or vestigial and consisting of only one ommatidium (Fig. 38); female mesosoma without flight sclerites (Fig. 48)

Ecitoninae
4 (1) Gaster without constriction between first and second segments (Fig. 17); functional sting absent


5

--         Gaster constricted between first and second segments (Fig. 16); sting present, functional
6
5 (4) Acidopore present, terminal, circular and usually fringed with setae (Fig. 19); petiole usually erect and scalelike

Formicinae
-- Acidopore absent, gaster with preapical, ventral anal slit (Fig. 18a); petiole often low and strongly inclined
Dolichoderinae
6 (4) ) Pygidium with row of stout spine-like setae on each side, convergent to apex (Fig. 26); genal and scrobal carinae present (Figs. 26, 27)

Cerapachyinae
-- Pygidium without stout spine-like setae (Fig. 11); genal and scrobal carinae absent (Figs. 22, 23)
Ponerinae
     
     
 
Males
 
1 Postpetiole present
2
-- Postpetiole absent 3
2(1) Clypeus not extending dorsad between frontal carinae; eye large, elongate, subreniform; antenna 12-segmented; notauli absent

Pseudomyrmecinae
-- Clypeus extending dorsad between frontal carinae; eye often large, but usually more or less hemispherical; antenna 10-13 segmented; notauli often present


Myrmicinae
3(1) Gaster not constricted between first and second segments; mandible usually well?developed
4
-- Gaster constricted between first and second segments; mandible poorly developed
6
4(3) Hypopygium entire or emarginate, but without distinct apical teeth; mandibles poorly developed or short and triangular; gaster more or less triangular, with apical segments distinctly telescoped


5
-- Hypopygium with 3 apical teeth; mandibles always prominent, elongate and rather broad or distinctly sickle?shaped, never short and triangular; gaster elongate?cylindrical


Ecitoninae
5(4) Scape short, SL less than combined lengths of next four segments; anterior tentorial pit at or above lower margin of antennal socket; petiole node usually low and strongly inclined; head, in profile, often flattened


Dolichoderinae
-- Scape elongate, SL equals or exceeds combined lengths of next five segments; anterior tentorial pit distinctly below level of lower margin of antennal socket (except in Brachymyrmex); petiole node usually fully erect; head, in profile, not strongly flattened




Formicinae
6(1) Petiole node, in profile, triangular and sharply differentiated from gaster; forewing, when present, with closed submarginal, marginal, and two discoidal cells


Ponerinae
-- Petiole node, in profile, low and quadrate, not sharply set off from gaster (Fig. 28); forewing with open or weakly closed submarginal cell and one discoidal cell

Cerapachyinae

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