Pheidole strator Forel

Type location Eritrea (Pheidole strator n. sp., Forel, 1910c: 256, major & minor) - see below
subspecies
fugax (Pheidole strator Forel, race fugax, n. r., Arnold, 1920a: 449, illustrated, major & minor) from Mozambique - see below
tabida (Pheidole strator var. tabida n. var., Menozzi, 1933a: 102, major) from Uganda - see below
major & minor described (see Bolton, 1995, type location given as Ethiopia) .

Forel's (1910c) description is at . Arnold's (1920a) description of fugax is at . Menozzi's (1933a) description of tabida is at .

The photomontage of the type major worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0907851.

The photomontage of a type minor worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0907852.

The photomontage of a cotype major is collated from The Smithsonian Institute images at http://ripley.si.edu/ent/nmnhtypedb/public/specimeninfopage.cfm?publicconsumption=1&typespecimenID=943.

The photomontage of a fugax syntype minor worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0906528.

The photomontage of the type major of tabida is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0905861.

Oxford University Museum specimens - the Liberia minors may be termitophila

Pheidole strator B Taylor det.

Tanzania V Grebennikov

12-16.x.2002 Usambara Mts 5°05' S 38°38' E

Amani NR HQ, 950 m

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The photomontage is of a minor worker from Tanzania, East Usambara Mts; Amani Nature Reserve, collector Vasily Grebennikov. This is an exact match for the fugax minor shown above and has the same colour as the tabida major.