Pheidole foreli Mayr

Type location South Africa (Pheidole Foreli nov. spec.,Mayr, 1901b: 8, major & minor; Forel, 1910f: 12, queen) from Sunday River Mts - see below
junior synonym here: pubens (Pheidole foreli Mayr var. pubens n. var., Forel, 1910f: 12, major & minor; Forel, 1910e: 436, queen & male) - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0907779
all forms described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Mayr's (1901b) description is at . Forel's (1910f) brief description of pubens is at . Forel's (1910e) fuller description of pubens is at . Arnold (1920a: 432) gave a translation, this is at and, with pubens, at .

The photomontage of the type major worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0922196.

The photomontage of the type minor worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0922195.

The major specimens in these field photographs, minors and attack below, were taken in Pretoria, South Africa, by Joan Young; nos 101_2783 to 2804.

Minor workers, Joan Young.

Attacking and dismembering a major of Pheidole crassinoda, Joan Young.

The photomontage of a "syntype" major worker in the BMNH, from Reddersburg, South Africa,  is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0901305. This is not obviously different to the true type above but is not a "syntype".

The photomontage of a "syntype" minor worker worker in the BMNH, from Reddersburg, South Africa,  is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0901304. Quite clearly it is not an example of P. foreli.