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Taxonomic History

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Pheidole punctulata st. melancholica Santschi, 1912b PDF: 164 (s.w.) IVORY COAST. Afrotropic. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Bernard, 1953b PDF: 225 (q.).Subspecies of Pheidole megacephala: Emery, 1915i PDF: 236; Wheeler, 1922: 132.
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Diagnostic Description

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Six soldiers, five workers, and seven females, mostly winged, taken at Garamba (Lang and Chapin) from the stomachs of a toad (Bufo regularis) and two frogs (Rana ornatissima and Kassina senegalensis). The female is a little larger than the female of the typical megacephala , with the head and thorax more sharply sculptured and the color of the body, including the clypeus and mandibles, darker, almost black; the legs more yellowish, as in the worker.

This is the host of the singular workerless parasitic ant, Anergatides kohli , recently described and figured by Wasmann from the vicinity of Stanleyville.2

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Wheeler, W. M., 1922, The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, pp. 39-269, vol. 45
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