Typically male ants are always winged, and are often superficially alike (though they may belong to widely separated genera, and even sub-families, in which the females and workers are very diverse).
The colour of male ants is often darker than in the female and worker; though in some cases the male may be yellow, or red, etc., when the female is black.
The head of a male is usually smaller and rounder, the eyes and ocelli more highly developed, the mandibles smaller and weaker, and the antennae longer and finer, than in the female and worker.
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