Pheidole megacephala subspecies punctulata (Mayr)

Wheeler, W. M., 1922, The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45, pp. 39-269 : 132

publication ID

20597

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6288702

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scientific name

Pheidole megacephala subspecies punctulata (Mayr)
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Pheidole megacephala subspecies punctulata (Mayr) View in CoL   HNS

Boma, [[soldier]], [[worker]], [[queen]]; Ngayu, [[soldier]], [[worker]]; Avakubi, [[soldier]], [[worker]]; Stanleyville, [[soldier]], [[worker]], [[queen]], [[male]]; Bolobo, [[soldier]], [[worker]]; Faradje, [[soldier]], [[worker]]; Zambi, [[soldier]], [[worker]], [[queen]]; Niapu, [[soldier]], [[worker]]; Garamba, [[soldier]], [[worker]]; Banana [[soldier]], [[worker]] (Lang and Chapin).

A well-known and widely distributed Ethiopian form, apparently more abundant in the Belgian Congo than the typical P. megacephala   HNS . The specimens from various colonies show considerable variation in color, some being dark brown, others pale and more yellowish or reddish, especially those from Stanleyville and Banana. Mr. Lang gives the native name of the species as "tuegeke" and his notes give the nesting sites as "under heaps of decomposed, moist grass," "in fallen stems of Hyphasne," "in mushroom-shaped termitaria in swamps," and "in the tops of termite mounds."

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Pheidole

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