safari_ants

safari ants aka dorylus...i cant put the species in for some reason....anyone help?

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morpheme

Lion

Dorylus isn't drilled down quite far enough - it's the genus, which is the first important part, but then you need species, which can be the difficult part. There are 61 species in the dorylus genus. A good field guide might help you narrow down your choices, but insects can be quite difficult. Posted 10 years ago
1. aloaaron
  
  Eagle Owl
  
  oh I see...everytime I typed in safari and it's switched to dorylus. Posted 10 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    I encourage you to spend a few minutes to go through this article:
    
    http://www.jungledragon.com/about/howtosharephotos
    
    It will explain at what level we identify things in JungleDragon. The bottom line is that we do so at the species level. For that you first have to know what a species is, and how it is different from a genus.
    
    In this specific example, you indicated "Safari ants". This is a genus:
    
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorylus
    
    Note how on the wikipedia page there is a large list of species that make up this genus. That species level is where we identify things at, so anything higher or broader than that is not specific enough.
    
    I hope this helps. Posted 10 years ago

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