Internal Anatomy

Abdominal Glands

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  Billen et al. (2013), Fig. 1. Schematical representation of the abdominal tip region of Myopias maligna, based on 3D-reconstruction of serial sections.
  DG: Dufour gland
  GG: gonostyli gland
  Gst: gonostyli
  OP: oblong plate
  OPG: oblong plate gland
  PyG: pygidial gland
  PyGs: pygidial gland sculptured tergite area
  S5, 6, 7: 5th, 6th, 7th sternite
  S7G: epithelial gland 7th sternite
  SG6/7: duct towards intersegmental gland between 6th and 7th sternites
  SSG: sting shaft gland
  st: sting
  T5, 6, 7: 5th, 6th, 7th tergite
  VG: venom gland

Digestive System

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  Serna & Mackay (2010), Figure 1. Mushroom-shaped proventricular valves found in the tribe Cephalotini (Redrawn from Emery 1922).

Tentorium

See Kubota et al. (2019).

References

• Billen, J., Stroobants, Z., Wenseleers, T., Hashim, R., Ito, F. 2013. Diversity and morphology of abdominal glands in workers of the ant genus Myopias (Formicidae, Ponerinae). Arthropod Structure & Development 42, 165-172 (doi:10.1016/j.asd.2012.12.001).
• Kubota, H., Yoshimura, J., Niitsu, S., Shimizu, A. 2019. Morphology of the tentorium in the ant genus Lasius Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Scientific Reports 9: 6722 (doi:10.1038/s41598-019-43175-w).