Introduction
The Dolichoderinae share the following characters with the Aneuretinae and Formicinae (Bolton 2003):
- Dorsal cuticular flap of the metapleural gland anteriorly reduced and posteromedially extended
- Petiole with complete tergosternal fusion
- Postpygidial glands absent
- Slit-like junction of pygidium and hypopygium
- Sting vestigial
- Pygidial glands producing cyclopenanoid monoterpenes (iridoids)
- Larvae with reduced hairs
- Reduced (sensilliform) larval maxillary palp and galea
- Small larval sericteries and reduced larval neck
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