The Ants of Africa
Genus Pheidole
Pheidole tricarinata Santschi

megacephala-group - Soldier - head width and length equal or subequal; mandibles relatively slender, with at most reduced teeth or denticles; postpetiole trapezoidal but without elongated lateral prominences. Minors without or variable development of a nuchal collar.

minima subgroup - TL < 3.3 mm

Pheidole tricarinata Santschi

Soldier - return to key Minor - return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Guinea (Santschi, 1914d: 340, soldier) from Camayenne, collector F. Silvestri; soldier only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1914d) description is at {original description}.

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