The Ants of Africa

The Ants of Africa
Genus Pheidole
Pheidole squalida Santschi

megacephala-group - Major - head width and length equal or subequal; mandibles relatively slender, with at most reduced teeth or denticles; postpetiole trapezoidal but without elongated lateral prominences. Minors without or variable development of a nuchal collar.

megacephala-subgroup - TL > 3.3 mm

Pheidole squalida Santschi

Type location Congo (Santschi, 1910c: 364, major & minor) from Brazzaville, by A. Weiss; major & minor described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1910c) description is at .

{Pheidole squalida major} The photomontage of the type major is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0913452

{Pheidole squalida minor} The photomontage of the type minor is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0913453

Oxford University Museum specimens

Pheidole squalida B Taylor det.	Cameroun A Fotso Kuate Pheidole sp13	28.vii.2007 Boga 03°54'30" N 11°25'58" E	Tuna bait in fallow	1
Pheidole squalida B Taylor det.	Congo Y Braet t-1-4	19.viii.2007 Brazzaville 4° 15' 33" S 15° 17' 5" E	24h pitfall trap; forest around the GERDIB laboratories; 317 m asl	1
Pheidole squalida B Taylor det.	Ghana S Sky Stephens 06G0082	2006	In personal collection of S Sky Stephens	1
Pheidole mentita B Taylor det.	Cameroun A Fotso Kuate Sample 26	3.ix.2008 Babadjou 2°52.02' N 9°59.13' E	Aphid survey	2

{Pheidole squalida major} The photomontage is of a major worker from Cameroun; Babadjou; 3.ix.2008; aphid survey; collector A Fotso Kuate (fk unmounted sp 26).

{Pheidole mentita minor} The photomontage is of a minor worker from Cameroun; Babadjou; 3.ix.2008; aphid survey (fk unmounted sp 26); coll. A Fotso Kuate.

{Pheidole squalida minor} The photomontage is of specimens from Ghana; collector S Sky Stephens (06G0082).

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