The Ants of Africa
Genus Pheidole
Pheidole kohli Mayr

speculifera-group - major head with convex sides but distinctly widest posteriorly

Pheidole kohli Mayr

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Kenya (Pheidole Kohli nov. spec., Mayr, 1901b: 11, footnote, major & minor); major & minor described (see Bolton, 1995) .


Mayr's (1901b) description is at {original description}.

Wheeler (1922) reported a single major from Medje, Zaïre (Lang and Chapin), without further data, which agrees very closely with Mayr's description of this species. Also Pheidole kohli Mayr, variety - A single imperfect major and five females, three of them winged, taken from the stomachs of a toad (Bufo regularis) and a frog (Rana ornatissima) from Garamba, (Lang and Chapin), appear to represent an undescribed variety or subspecies of kohli, the major being darker and having a distinctly narrower head. The pedicel, gaster and funiculi are, however, lacking in the single specimen of the major. It seems to be undesirable to base a new name on such defective material.


{Pheidole kohli major}The photomontage of a syntype major worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0906619.


{Pheidole kohli minor}The photomontage of a syntype minor worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0906618.

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