Pheidologeton diversus (Jerdon)

Type location India (Ocodoma Diversa, N.S.,Jerdon, 1851: 109, major & minor workers; Emery, 1893e: 212, queen & male) from the Wynaad, by Jerdon - no images on Antweb (December 2015)
subspecies
draco (Santschi, 1920h: 163, major & minor workers & queen) from Vietnam - see https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0913531
fictus (Forel, 1911d: 386, worker) from Vietnam - see https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0908883
laotinus (Santschi, 1920h: 162, major & minor workers & queen) from Laos - see https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0913533
macgregori (Wheeler, 1929g: 50, illustrated, worker) philippinus (Wheeler, 1929g: 46, all forms) from Philippines - no images on Antweb (December 2014)
tenuirugosus (Wheeler, 1929g: 44, major & minor workers) from Philippines - no images on Antweb (December 2014) - no images on Antweb (December 2014)
williamsi (Wheeler, 1929g: 49, major & minor workers & male) from Philippines - no images on Antweb (December 2015)
standfussi (Forel, 1911d: 386, worker; Wheeler, 1922, noted "locality extremely doubtful") from Guinea - no images on Antweb (December 2015)
taprobanae (F Smith, 1858b: 175, queen; Emery, 1901f: 119, major & minor workers) from Sri Lanka - queen https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0900735
junior synonyms
megacephala (Smith, 1860b: 112, worker; junior synonym megacephalotes, Dalla Torre, 1892: 90) see https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0901418
pabulator (F Smith, 1860b: 112, major & minor workers) - see https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0901417
polita (F Smith, 1860b: 108, worker) from Indonesia - see https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0901424
ocellifera (F Smith, 1858b: 174, worker) from Burma - see https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0900734.
Illustrated by Ettershank (1966), from Rangoon, Burma (see Bolton, 1995) .

Jerdon's (1851) description is at . Emery (1893e) gave an extensive description of all forms, this is at . Forel's (1911d) description of standfussi is at . Forel himself queried the location of the material as being "Guinea" (his description was in a section of the paper on ants of Molucca and Sumatra). He appears to have concluded that either the origin was a mislabelling or that the specimens were the worker of the, then, recently described Pheidologeton solitarius Stitz (1910, see below) known only from the female.

Bingham (1903) gave description of all the forms, these are at - workers - and sexuals - .

Excellent illustrations can be seen on the Japanese Ant Color Image Database (shown right). The drawing is from Emery (1922f, Plate 4 Fig. 5).

TL major 15.64 mm; smallest minor 2.39 mm; head of major perhaps 500 times the volume of that of the minor.

The photomontage of a major is adapted from JACID site

The photomontage of a major worker in the BMNH is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0906200.