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miszt: Identification Flow chart? (13. Dez 2007 11:42)

i've been looking for one of these for months now, but no luck, does anyone know where I can find a good one? :D

Purifier: (13. Dez 2007 12:33)

Identification flow chart? Whats that?! Do you mean swarm time calender :?:

miszt: (13. Dez 2007 12:37)

No, its a logic chart, eg...

Number of Nodes > 1 (goto section 1) > 2 (goto section 2)

Section 1, How many antenna segmants does it have? greater than 10 (goto section3) less than 10 (goto section4)

etc etc untill u end up with the species at the last section :)

they often look somthing like this...

http://www.everlab.org/doc/boot-manager-flowchart.png

Purifier: (13. Dez 2007 12:46)

#-o lol....i know this for cars. I need it to find failures.
Now i know a bit more :)

But i cant help you to give you an link for ants, sorry dude.

Sphecomyrmex: (13. Dez 2007 13:21)

Do you want one flow chart for every Formicidae's species, or do you want chart for any genera?

I've found some of this chart only for single genera, i don't think there is a general identification table for all ants...

miszt: (13. Dez 2007 13:29)

some genera is a start :D please do post the links!

I want the whole Formicidae family eventually, but i dont htink there is such a chart, so I will compile one out of as much info as I can :)

I've managed to get a list of 12,000+ species...lol I thought 8,800 species wuld be hard, but got to start somewhere i guess!

Sphecomyrmex: (13. Dez 2007 17:29)

All ant species are 12156 today. :) On antbase.org, there is the exact number of species every day.

In http://www.ento.csiro.au/science/ants/default.htm, there is a flow chart for every genera. In "ants of africa" too are there some of those. But these are simple and without schemes.

I've found more illustrated flow charts on http://antbase.org/ants/publications/21285/21285.pdf, "a key of camponotus mayr of Australia". You could to inspire you to those to compile your papers.

also I have tried to compile some identification tables, for my issue "taxonomic mirmecology" that I 'm putting on, but I have not succeeded so much good there. :(