Pheidole speculifera

Identification
A member of the speculifera species group.

Distribution
This taxon was described from Ethiopia. It is also found in Guinea, Eritrea, Kenya and Mali.

Nomenclature

 *  speculifera. Pheidole speculifera Emery, 1877b: 373 (s.w.) ETHIOPIA. Santschi, 1930c: 268 (m.); Bernard, 1953b: 223 (q.). [Misspelled as speculifrons by Dalla Torre, 1893: 96.] Current subspecies: nominal plus ascara, bispecula, cubangensis.