The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition.
Author
Wheeler, W. M.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
1922
45
39
269
http://plazi.org:8080/dspace/handle/10199/17097
journal article
20597
Pheidole megacephala subspecies melancholica (Santschi)
Six soldiers, five workers, and seven females, mostly winged, taken at Garamba (Lang and Chapin) from the stomachs of a toad (Bufo regularis) and two frogs (Rana ornatissima and Kassina senegalensis). The female is a little larger than the female of the typical
megacephala
, with the head and thorax more sharply sculptured and the color of the body, including the clypeus and mandibles, darker, almost black; the legs more yellowish, as in the worker.
This is the host of the singular workerless parasitic ant,
Anergatides kohli
, recently described and figured by Wasmann from the vicinity of Stanleyville.2