Pheidole rugaticeps

Pheidole rugaticeps
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Attini
Genus:	Pheidole
Species:	P. rugaticeps
Binomial name
Pheidole rugaticeps Emery, 1877 Specimen Labels
Subspecies
Pheidole rugaticeps arabs Emery, 1881

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 15.5° to 13.37629°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: Burkina Faso, Eritrea (type locality), Ethiopia, Gambia, Mali, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa.
Palaearctic Region: Oman.

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.

Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.

Castes

Worker

Images from AntWeb

Worker. Specimen code casent0281619. Photographer Shannon Hartman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.

Syntype of Pheidole rugaticeps. Worker. Specimen code casent0904215. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy.

Syntype of Pheidole rugaticeps. Worker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0904214. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• rugaticeps. Pheidole rugaticeps Emery, 1877b: 375 (s.w.q.) ETHIOPIA. Current subspecies: nominal plus arabs.

Type Material

• Syntype, 1 worker, 2 workers (1 pin), 2 soldiers, Bogos, Sciotel, 21–26 km SW Keren, near the mountain Zad Amba (Zadamba), Eritrea, 15°35′0″N 38°20′0″E, 1870, O. Beccari, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna; see Madl (2019).

All specimens are pinned with the original locality labels except one soldier.

References

• Ashigar, M.A., Ab Majid, A.H. 2020. Diversity, abundance, and foraging behavior of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) scavenging on American Cockroach in various habitats of Nasarawa State, Nigeria. Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science 43: 503-521 (doi:10.47836/pjtas.43.4.07).
• Ashigar, M.A., Ab Majid, A.H. 2021. 16S rDNA metabarcoding of the bacterial community associated with workers of Pheidole rugaticeps Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 24, 176–183 (doi:10.1016/j.aspen.2020.12.003).
• Ashigar, M.A., Ab Majid, A.H. 2021. Morphological reassessments and DNA barcoding of Pheidole rugaticeps Emery and Pheidole decarinata Santschi collected in Nigeria. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, 421, 403–413 (doi:[https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs42690-021-00557-w 10.1007/s42690-021-00557-w

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• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
• Borowiec, L., Salata, S. 2018. Notes on ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Gambia (Western Africa). Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, Entomology 26 (online 010), 1-13 (doi:10.5281/ZENODO.1243767).
• Emery, C. 1877c. Catalogo delle formiche esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Genova. Parte prima. Formiche provenienti dal Viaggio dei signori Antinori, Beccari e Issel nel Mar Rosso e nel paese dei Bogos. [concl.]. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. 9 (page 375, soldier, worker, queen described)
• Madl, M. 2019. Notes on the ant fauna of Eritrea (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae): type specimens deposited in the Natural History Museum Vienna (Austria) and a preliminary checklist. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, B, 121, 9-18.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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