Pheidologeton diversus (Jerdon)

Type location India (Ocodoma diversa, N.S.,Jerdon, 1851: 109, soldier & worker; Emery, 1893e: 212, queen & male) from the Wynaad, by Jerdon; subspecies draco (Santschi, 1920h: 163, soldier, worker & queen) and fictus (Forel, 1911d: 386, worker) from Vietnam, laotinus (Santschi, 1920h: 162, soldier, worker & queen) from Laos, macgregori (Wheeler, 1929g: 50, illustrated, worker) philippinus (Wheeler, 1929g: 46, all forms), tenuirugosus (Wheeler, 1929g: 44, soldier & worker) and williamsi (Wheeler, 1929g: 49, soldier, worker & male) from Philippines, standfussi (Forel, 1911d: 386, worker; Wheeler, 1922, noted "locality extremely doubtful") from Guinea, taprobanae (F Smith, 1858b: 175, queen; Emery, 1901f: 119, soldier & worker) from Sri Lanka; junior synonyms megacephala (Smith, 1860b: 112, worker; junior synonym megacephalotes, Dalla Torre, 1892: 90), pabulator (F Smith, 1860b: 112, soldier & worker) and polita (F Smith, 1860b: 108, worker) from Indonesia, militaris (F Smith, 1860a: 74, soldier & worker) from Sulawesi, ocellifera (F Smith, 1858b: 174, worker) from Burma. Illustrated by Ettershank (1966), from Rangoon, Burma (see Bolton, 1995) .

Jerdon's (1851) description is at . Emery (1893e) gave an extensive description of all forms, this is at . Forel's (1911d) description of standfussi is at . Forel himself queried the location of the material as being "Guinea" (his description was in a section of the paper on ants of Molucca and Sumatra). He appears to have concluded that either the origin was a mislabelling or that the specimens were the worker of the, then, recently described Pheidologeton solitarius Stitz (1910, see below) known only from the female.

Excellent illustrations can be seen on the Japanese Ant Color Image Database (shown right). The drawing is from Emery (1922f, Plate 4 Fig. 5).

TL major 15.64 mm; smallest minor 2.39 mm; head of major perhaps 500 times the volume of that of the minor.

The photomontage of a soldier is adapted from JACID site