| Genus List | Genus Overview | Species List |


Key to Labidus of Costa Rica: Workers


10a. Petiole with well-developed anteroventral tooth: 20

10b. Petiole with no trace of anteroventral tooth: 30


20a. Face largely smooth and shiny; worker color bright red-brown; mesosoma relatively compact, with dorsal face of propodeum shorter than posterior face: coecus

20b. Face rough, not shiny; worker color dark brown; relatively more gracile, wiith dorsal face of propodeum subequal to or longer than posterior face: spininodis


30a. Face with dense microsculpture, matte: praedator

30b. Face smooth and shining: JTL-001


Page author:

John T. Longino, The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 98505 USA.longinoj@evergreen.edu


Date of this version: 18 July 2005.
Previous versions of this page:
Go back to top

Go to Ants of Costa Rica Homepage