Pheidole cubangensis Forel new status

Type location Angola (Pheidole crassinoda Emery, v. cubangensis n. var., Forel, 1901d: 306, major only; variety of speculifera, Forel, 1916: 413) from Cubanga-Cuito - see below.

Forel's (1901d) description of cubangensis is at .

The photomontage of the type major worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0907820.

TL ca 9.5 mm, HL 2.83, HW 2.83, SL , PW 1.16, CI 100, SI 44.

Head cordiform in full face-view, strongly convex dorsum in lateral view; possibly due to damage, the mandibles have a wavy outer margin; pronotum wide and alitrunk quite stocky, deep metanotal groove with transverse rugae; head and alitrunk with dullish appearance, frons with fine striations reaching back to the occiput but very fine after the mid-point, occiput with minute dense spiculate ground sculpture.