Pheidole rubricalva Forel new status
  Type location Zaire
(Pheidole Aurivillii Mayr v. rubricalva n. var., Forel, 1915c:
337, major & minor) collected at St. Gabriel,
by H Kohl - see below. Raised to species here as quite different to Pheidole aurivillii.
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Forel's (1915c)
description is at  .
Forel described rubricalva -
MAJOR - TL 3.5-3.6; head red, antenna clear brown, rest dark brown;
otherwise as type (Pheidole aurivilli).
MINOR - TL 2.5-2.8; entirely dark brown with appendages reddish; larger
than type, with a much wider head, especially the occiput; sculpture
also stronger.
Also collected at St. Gabriel by Kohl, in a nest between two leaves and
made with soil and vegetable debris. |
 The photomontage of a
type major worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0907807.
TL (Forel) 3.5-3.6; HL 1.50, HW 1.50, SL 0.83, PW 0.60, CI 100, SI 60
Clypeus and mandibles appear smooth; head completelt striated in full
face view, the striae curving outwards on the occiput, frontal carinae
not much stronger than striae but distinct and enclosing a shallow
scrobe with spiculate sculpture; alitrunk weakly sculptured, spiculate
on lateral mesonotum and propodeum.
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 The photomontage of
the type minor worker is collated
from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0907808.
TL ca 3.3 mm, HL 0.71, HW 0.69, SL 1.00, PW 0.46, CI 97, SI 144
Head in full face view domed smoothly from behind the eyes, frons
smooth and shiny, genae with long fine striations; promesonotum profile
a long, low arc; propdeum woth convex dorsum, short spines amd convex
declivity; pedicel small, postpetiole distorted subglobular; very fine
spiculation on head and alitrunk but very faint on most of the head and
pronotum.
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