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Dolichoderinae

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Dolichoderinae

1a.Small, brownish, no obvious sculpture, petiole lacking a scaleTapinoma sessile 
1b. Black body, scale on petiole convex2 (Dolichoderus) 
   
2a. Bicolored: head and thorax red; gaster black D. mariae
2b. Not bicolored 3
   
3a. Scape with more than 10 erect hairs D. plagiatus
3b. Scape without hairs; head smooth and shiny 4
   
4a. Mesoscutum and mesopleuron punctate; petiole longer than wide D. pustulatus
4b. Mesoscutum and mesopleuron shining; first gastric tergite with 10+ hairs, petiole subquadrate D. taschenbergi