Ant taxonomists use more than 150 terms to describe the different cuticle patterns, with different names for some subtle distinctions. “They drive people like me crazy,” he says.

Marcia M. L. Yu, Stanislav O. Konorov, H. Georg Schulze, Michael W. Blades, Robin F. B. Turner, Reinhard Jetter, In situ analysis by microspectroscopy reveals triterpenoid compositional patterns ...