The Ants of Africa
Genus Pheidole
Pheidole rugaticeps Emery

rugaticeps group - postpetiole scarcely or not wider than long, rounded or at most slightly angled at sides

Pheidole rugaticeps Emery

Soldier - return to key Minor - return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Eritrea (Emery, 1877b: 375, soldier, worker & queen); subspecies arabs (Emery, 1881b: 535, soldier, worker & queen; stirps of rugaticeps Santschi 1914d: 336) from Yemen (see Bolton, 1995); soldier, worker and queen described .

Emery's (1877b) description is at {original description} and {original description}. Emery's (1881b) description of arabs is at {original description}.

Wheeler (1922) also had records of arabs from Senegal (Dakar and Thiès, F. Silvestri); presumably a savannah species. Records from Santschi (1914d).

Collingwood & Agosti (1996), reporting it from Saudi Arabia, Oman and Yemen separated it as - postpetiole scarcely or not wider than long, rounded or at most slightly angled at sides; HW > 2; sides of head striate to occiput; first gastral tergite partially or totally striate.

{Pheidole rugaticeps major}The photomontage is of a major specimen from Mali, Bamako; King 36; 12°34.51' N 7°56.39' W; 363 m asl; foraging by day in building compound near outskirts of city; collected by David M. King. Other images can be seen in the folder at - {original description}

{Pheidole rugaticeps minor}The photomontage is of a minor specimen from Mali, collected by David M. King.

{Pheidole rugaticeps} The photomontage is of a minor specimen from Sudan, Wad Medani; Sudan 2-3; collected by Awatif Omer. Other images can be seen in the folder at - {original description}

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