Pheidole guineensis (Fabricius)

Minor - Type location Guinea (Formica guineensis, Fabricius, 1793: 357, minor) collector Isert; minor only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Wheeler (1922: 896, as Tetramorium guineense (Fabricius), noted it as tropicopolitan, but other than (French) Guinea, at Los Islands, he listed mostly Congo eastwards locations. Note: as according to Bolton (see 1995: 322), Mayr (1862: 740, see Wheeler, 1922) reassigned F. guineensis to Tetramorium there is a potential for confusion because that was reassigned again to Pheidole by Bolton (1977: 94). The modern use of Tetramorium guineense results from the synonymization of a Xiphomyrmex species (Bolton, 1980); other specimens for which Tetramorium guineense F was used refer to the tramp species Tetramorium bicarinatum, reported only once from Durban, South Africa, as "introduced from Burma" (Bolton, 1980: 266).

The Fabricius description (1793) is at . Latreille (1802c) transcribed the Fabricius description, this is at . What appears in Mayr (1862) is at . This seems to contradict Bolton's remark, as it only refers to species that Bolton (1995) otherwise has as "see under Tetramorium". Bolton (1977: 94) is at . This explains that he had examined the lectotype and five paralectotype workers in the Copenhagen Museum and found them to be minor workers of a small West African Pheidole. Interestingly, Bondroit (1918: 109) under Tetramorium guineense F., noted it as an exotic, TL 3.0-3.5 mm; frontal carinae very long reaching the occiput; body yellow rust, gaster browner.