Here, in microscopic detail, is part of an African weaver ant Oecophylla longinoda.
For all ten Myrmecos points, be the first person to tell us what part of the insect we’re looking at.
The cumulative points winner for the month of October will take home their choice of 1) any 8×10-sized print from my photo galleries, or 2) a guest post here on Myrmecos.
Good luck!
The base of the coxa.
The base of the antennae?
Antennal scape
Yeah, I think formicidaefantasy got it. I guess we see a part of the condylar bulb at the base antenna and part of surrounding torulus rim.
Upper margin of mandible where it attaches to the head.
Base of the maxillary palp.
Fine I’ll guess…the base of the maxillary palp
Wow I did not see mrilovetheants’s response
You could always guess the Labial Palp instead.
The base of the pedicel, where it attaches to the propodeum?
The connection between the back of the head, on the right side, and the pronotum, on the left side. Hairs are part of the system to inform the ant about the position of the body and its part relatif to eachother.
The bulbus (basal condyle of the antennal scape). Probably in a formicine or dolichoderine (one can’t tell those apart just looking at this structure).
Oh, just realized the species was written above the image! :).
Hide the metadata!
At first I thought it was the anterior “collar” of the pronotum and the area around the foramen magnum of the head, but I defer to Roberto’s greater familarity with antennal condyles and toruli. (That was fun to write!)
I thought antenna condyle was correct… but if not… is it the petiole?
Rats – only three days late!
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