The Ants of Africa
Genus Pheidole
Pheidole irritans (F. Smith)

Pheidole irritans (F. Smith)

Minor - return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location South Africa (Myrmica irritans, F Smith, 1858b: 127, minor; in Pheidole, Dixey & Longstaff, 1907: 331); minor worker only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Smith's (1858b) description is at {original description}. Curiously not mentioned by Arnold (1920a, 1926) as among the Pheidole of South Africa.
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