Pheidole crassinoda Emery

Soldier - Minor - Type location South Africa (Emery, 1895h: 32, soldier & worker; Mayr, 1907b: 12, queen & male); subspecies pluto (Arnold, 1920a: 473, soldier & worker) from Mozambique, ruspolii (Emery, 1897e: 597, soldier & worker; Forel, 1907c: 138, male; Arnold, 1920a: 475, queen) from Ethiopia, sordidula (Santschi, 1937a: 54, soldier, worker & male) from Tanzania, and cerdo (Santschi, 1937a: 54, all forms) from South Africa; all forms known (see Bolton, 1995) .

Emery's (1895h) description is at . Mayr's (1907b) description of the queen & male is at . Arnold (1920a) gave a translation, this is at . Arnold's (1920a) description of pluto is at . Emery's (1897e) description of ruspolii is at . Forel's (1907c) description of the ruspolii male is at . Arnold (1920a) gave an illustrated translation of ruspolii, this is at and . Santschi's (1937a) description of sordidula is at . Santschi's (1937a) description of cerdo is at .

This may be an immigrant from savannah woodland, as Kemp (1951) studied its foraging activity and related how it was among the principal predators of the eggs of tsetse flies at Shinyanga in Tanzania (as Tanganyika). There it was ground-nesting. The identification had been by Donisthorpe, of the British Museum (Natural History), and Kemp noted how the workers were inseparable from those of Pheidole sculpturata Mayr.

The photomontage is of a specimen collected from Usambara Mts, Tanzania; Zigi Lodge, Amani NR; S 5°05' E 38°38'; 2200 m; Vasily Grebennikov, 9-11.x.2002. Other images can be seen in the folder at -

The photomontage is of a minor specimen from Congo, Brazzaville, pitfall trapped by Yves Braet & Eric Nzassi, 2007.

Other images can be seen in the folder at - Congo -

The Sexuals from Arnold (1920a, 1926: Pl. VI).