Pheidole areniphila Forel

Type location Botswana (Pheidole areniphila Forel, 1910a: 14 [30 in Bolton 1995], footnote; replacement name for Pheidole arenicola n. sp., Forel, 1910f: 11, all forms) from Khakea, Kalahari, L Schultze - see minors below
subspecies aurora (Pheidole areniphila For. v. aurora n. var., Santschi, 1928f: 204, major) from Tanzania - see major below
all forms described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Forel's (1910f) description is at . In the paper referenced as "1910a", Forel refers to the (already) published description of a species from the Kalahari for which he used the name arenicola without realising that had been applied to a subspecies of Pheidole fallax Mayr. Arnold (1920a: 479) gave a translation of Forel's (1910f) description, this is at . Santschi's (1928f) description of aurora is at .

Overall the description of the major appears to differ very little, if at all, from Pheidole fervens but that does not have a rugoreticulum on the occiput, simply fine longitudinal striations; the type minors also are very similar.

The photomontage of two "type" minor workers is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0907805 and http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0907806.

The photomontage of the aurora type major worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0913268,

The photomontage of the aurora type minor worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0913269,

The photomontage of the type queen is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=focol1313 .