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Key to New World Pheidole

This is a key to the New World Pheidole using Lucid 3.4. The key contains all currently valid New World species. There are no illustrations. At this point it is just a sorting tool that uses a basic set of characters. There is also the option of restriction to one or more geographic regions: U.S.A., Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, South America. The key can be helpful when used in conjunction with Wilson (2003) and/or various websites (e.g., AntWeb, Ants of Costa Rica). There is an Excel file to which data are being added gradually, incorporating additional characters. This file can be periodically imported into Lucid to produce an updated key.

Launch key: click here.

Copy of data file used for key (version 2 December 2007): click here. If you feel motivated and want to add to or correct data in the file, feel free to do so and send me any corrections or additions. You will need to highlight changes so I can find them.