Pheidole hewitti Santschi

Type location South Africa (Pheidole hewitti n. sp., Santschi, 1932a: 382, illustrated, major & minor) Cape Province, Cossakpost, 1920, Hewitt - minor see below, no images of major on Antweb (November 2014). Also same specimens described as Pheidole capensis Mayr var. Hewitti n . var. (Arnold, 1944: 6, major & minor; junior synonym by Arnold, 1952a: 462)
major & minor described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1932a) description is at . Arnold's (1944) description is at . Arnold's (1952a) revisionary notes are at .

From Arnold's argument (1952a), it seemed that this should be reduced to a subspecies of Pheidole capensis. A comparison of the capensis type major images and the Santschi drawing suggest hewitti is a junior synonym of capensis. Assuming the colour of the Antweb type images is a true reproduction,  the hewitti minor is a dark brown as opposed to the yellow capensis.

The photomontage of the type minor worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0913337.