Pheidole sculpturata Mayr particeps Santschi

Main species page Type location South Africa (Pheidole sculpturata nov. spec., Mayr, 1866b: 897, major; Emery, 1895h: 31, minor)
subspecies particeps (Pheidole Berthoudi For. var. particeps nov. var., Santschi, 1921c: 116, minor) from Tanzania, collected at Bukoba, by Viehmeyer - see below

The photomontage is of the particeps type minor from north-west Tanzania, collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0913438

Santschi (1921c) gave particeps minor as TL 3.2-3.5 mm. Santschi's (1921c) description of particeps is at

Oxford University Museum specimens

Pheidole sculpturata particeps B Taylor det.

Sudan J Mathews JM 240

1.vii.2001 Khordonia 11°51' N 34°15' E

Damazine Plantation, Blue Nile pyrethrum fogging of Acacia senegal in semi-natural forest

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The photomontage is of a minor worker from Sudan, Khordonia, Damazine Plantation, Blue Nile; collector J Mathews.

The long propodeal spines, dense sculpture on the alitrunk and the form of the frons differ from the type form. It matches almost exactly the type particeps from Bukoba, northern Tanzania (above).