| 1. | Despite its many postpetiole between the first and second gastral segments ).
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| 2. | The first and third segments of the postpetiole is one-sixth broader than long.
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| 3. | This species can be distinguished from all petiole and postpetiole which gives the ant its specific name.
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| 4. | The pubescence ( short, fine, soft hair ) is white and abundant all over the postpetiole and gaster.
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| 5. | The plump portion of the abdomen posterior to the petiole ( and postpetiole in the Myrmicinae ) is called the gaster.
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| 6. | Usually in myrmicine ants the dorsal margin of the postpetiole is higher than the top of first gastral tergite, in lateral view.
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| 7. | The head, postpetiole and gaster are black, thorax and node is a bright red colour, and the mandibles are yellow.
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| 8. | In ants, the most structurally similar cuticular projections can be found throughout most of the body of some species in the petiole and postpetiole.
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| 9. | The anteroventral portion of the postpetiole in " A . ameliae " has irregular extensions, without the concavity present in the first species.
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| 10. | In " A . insinuator ", the anteroventral edge of the postpetiole is broadly and evenly concave, without a broad median anteroventral extension.
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