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Ant keys

Started By benjiwuf , Sep 6 2016 2:15 AM

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#1 Offline benjiwuf - Posted September 6 2016 - 2:15 AM

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I'm wondering where to find keys to different species. I've used antwiki.org previously with limited sucess. It might just be my untrained eyes, but I'm wondering if there are other keys out there I might find more helpful. Also a more descriptive diagram would probably help me a bit more too.

My question is where do most people find their keys, and are the best detailed and explained diagrams of ants broken down.

#2 Offline Batspiderfish - Posted September 6 2016 - 5:58 AM

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I'm not sure about comprehensive and visual keys, but you could try this: http://hol.osu.edu/

It has a large collection of keys and descriptions for most species, even though it seems more and more of these documents are no longer for public reading.

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#3 Offline dspdrew - Posted September 6 2016 - 6:45 PM

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One good place to look is here (http://www.formicult...of-handy-links/).

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#4 Offline benjiwuf - Posted September 7 2016 - 5:28 AM

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sigh...i should really reread all these completely again. i read them so long ago that now i only look for the information i need that second and then move on. thanks still!