Minor description (translation of Mayr 1896 by
Marcus Stuben)
Worker.
Length: 3mm. Brown, the mandibles light brown; funiculus, joints of the
legs and the tarsi clay-coloured / luteous [lehmgelb]. The whole body
and the tibiae moderately covered with a long, erect pilosity, without
pubescence.
The mandibles basally more or less longitudinally striated, distally
smooth and shiny, the masticatory margin finely denticulate, distally
with 2 very distinct teeth. The head is smooth and shiny, at the
frontal carina [Stirnleisten] and between these and the eyes slightly
striated, the sides of the head and at the backmost fifth part or sixth
part of the head with fine leather-like wrinkles. The shape of the head
close to the “foramen magnum“ differing from that of Pheidole megacephala
in being more constricted (narrower). The clypeus is entirely lacking a
carina and its frontal margin is not emarginated. The scape of the
12-segmented antennae exceeds the hind margin of the head by about 2/5
of its length, all segments of the slender funiculus are very clearly
longer than broad, just the second segment is as long or a little
longer than broad. The medial notch is distinctly impressed. The eyes
are a little in front of the midpoint of sides of the head. The
alitrunk is finely reticulate-punctate; the pronotum has a smooth shiny
disk and two sides, it has two small humps [Höcker] at the top of the
rear; the mesonotum is elongated and has in the middle a not or a just
shallowly impressed transverse margin [Quereindruck]; the base or
dorsum [Basalfläche] of the propodeum is longer than broad, not
marginated on the sides [seitlich nicht gerandet] and at the rear has 2
erect , nearly parallel short spines, which are slightly shorter than
their distance between each other at their basis. The second segment of
the rather smoothed petioelus is slightly longer than broad, from the
front to the middle gradually broadened, and in the middle laterally
rounded. The gaster [abdomen] is smooth and shiny, at its basis
sometimes with fine leather-like wrinkles.
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The photomontage of the
type minor worker is collated
from 
The photomontage of a
syntype minor worker is collated
from 
The
photomontage is of a minor worker from Benin, Korobouro;
collector J-F Vayssieres (RVA2699). This and the others fron Benin are
slghtly smaller and perhaps have denser spiculate sculpture than the
type minor and that (below) from the CAR.
The
photomontage is of a minor worker from the Central African Republic,
Ndoki, Sangha;
collector P Moretto.