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FIGURE 7 A, B) Pheidole batrachorum. Full-face view of minor worker and dorsal view of major worker: showing distinctly punctate face of the minor worker (A) and head with distinctly sculptured posterolateral lobes, and posterior dorsopronotum with longitudinal rugulae for the major worker (A). C, D) Pheidole darwini. Full-face view of minor and dorsal view of major worker: illustrating superficially punctate (hexagonally microsculptured) face in the minor worker (C) and head with smooth & shiny posterolateral lobes, and posterior dorsopronotum without longitudinal, or oblique rugulae for the major worker (D).

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.