External Ant Anatomy 101 Song (Based on Animaniacs)

"Lyrics:

Welcome ladies and gentleman to the AntsCanada Ant Anatamy Lesson 101... Here we go!!! Let's start with the head, known as the prosoma

Fastigium, clypeus, eye, discal clypeus, premalar space, and gena
Frontoclypeal suture, clypeomalar suture, scape, and frontal carina
Frontovertexal corner, and medial clypeal carina, clypeal flank,
Here's the antennal condyle, and there's anteclypeus, mandible built like a tank

Torrulus, temple, vertex, maxilar and labial palp, and the occular sulcus,
submentum, prementum, occipital carina, inferior tooth, ectal surface...

Now let's move on to the Mesosoma...

Dorsopropodeum, neck, and pronotum, anteropropodeal process
posteropropodeum, and mesonotum, and the mesonotal process, yes!
lateropropodeum, lateropronotum, the dorsolateral margin
There's dorsopronotum, propleuron, propodeal spine, and katepisternum

The pronotal lobe, metapleural gland scrobe, metacoxae connect to trochanter
Anepisternum, metapleuron, procoxa, mesocoxa, the prefemur

Let's move on to the leg and Metasoma

Tibia, femur, and tibial spur, double claws they will hook you alive
There's the tarsomeres, aka the tarsal segments numbered, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
Nodal truncation, the petiole, waiste segment just found in wasp, ants, and bees
The hypopygium, pygidium, epipygium make up their hinies

The cinctus, and opisthogaster, and here we have the metasomal post tergite,
Here is the sternopostpetiolar process, and the metasomal sternite

Let's look at the queen with parts workers don't have...

Two tiny eyes on the fronts of the queen, are called lateral ocelli,
foveola, and costula, median ocellus the name of the middle eye
There's the scutum, scutellum, and the prescutellum is also known as axilla,
transcutal suture, and scutoscutellar sulcus, caudal metasoma

Wing scales and two pairs of wings, four wings in total with every queen and male alate,
Here's the parapsidal line, and the strigae,
foveae/foveate,
the striae or striate,
antenna, rugocostae/rugocostate,
and some have a stinger
The End"

From http://antfarm.yuku.com/reply/84872/t/Journal--AntsCanada-Ants-Store---Multiple-Species--Ants.html#reply-84872 ...

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