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FIGURE 8 A, B) Pheidole dea and Pheidole nimba. Minor workers with dorsal view of head and promesonotum: illustrating smooth to superficially punctate areas medially between eyes and posteriorly on dorsal promesonotum (A) versus uniformly expressed sculpture in face and on promesonotum (B).

Fischer, G., Hita Garcia, F., & Peters, M.K. 2012. Taxonomy of the ant genus Pheidole Westwood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical zoogeographic region: definition of species groups and systematic revision of the Pheidole pulchella group. Zootaxa, 3232, 1-43.