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FIGURE 5 A) Pheidole setosa. Minor worker in full-face view: illustrating head margin with several laterally projecting and long hairs; B) Pheidole darwini Major worker in oblique frontolateral view: scape with erect, long hairs in addition to decumbent pilosity; C) Pheidole batrachorum. Major worker in dorsal view: pronotum with several oblique to longitudinal rugulae. D) Pheidole nimba Bernard. Minor worker in full-face view: illustrating head margin with a maximum of two laterally projecting and short hairs; E, F) Pheidole glabrella. Major worker in oblique full-face view and in dorsal view: illustrating uniform scape pilosity without additional erect hairs (E) and transverse rugulae on dorsal pronotum (F).

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.