The Ants of Africa
Genus Pheidole
Pheidole retronitens Santschi

saxicola-group (speculatively) - postpetiole squamiform (with anterior ventral blunt process),

Pheidole retronitens Santschi

Soldier - return to key Minor - return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Zaïre (Santschi, 1930a: 59, soldier & worker) collected at Kasai, N'gombe, by Dr Schouteden, 17.xii.1921; worker and soldier described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1930a) description is at {original description}.

{Pheidole retronitens minor} The photomontage is of a minor specimen from Ghana, collected by Sky Stephens, 2006. Other images can be seen in the folder at - {original description}

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