Pheidole rugaticeps Emery

Major - Minor - Type location Eritrea (Emery, 1877b: 375, major, minor & queen); subspecies arabs (P. rugaticeps Em. var. Arabs, Emery, 1881b: 535, major, minor & queen; stirps of rugaticeps Santschi 1914d: 336) from Yemen (see Bolton, 1995); major, minor and queen described .

Emery's (1877b) description is at and . Emery's (1881b) description of arabs is at .

Wheeler (1922) also had records of arabs from Senegal (Dakar and Thiès, F. Silvestri); presumably a savannah species. Records from Santschi (1914d).

Collingwood & Agosti (1996), reporting it from Saudi Arabia, Oman and Yemen separated it as - major postpetiole scarcely or not wider than long, rounded or at most slightly angled at sides; HW > 2; sides of head striate to occiput; first gastral tergite partially or totally striate.

The photomontage is of a major specimen from Mali, Bamako; King 36; 12°34.51' N 7°56.39' W; 363 m asl; foraging by day in building compound near outskirts of city; collected by David M. King. Other images can be seen in the folder at -

The photomontage is of a minor specimen from Mali, collected by David M. King.

The photomontage is of a minor specimen from Sudan, Wad Medani; Sudan 2-3; collected by Awatif Omer. Other images can be seen in the folder at -

The photomontage is of a specimen from Sudan, collected by J Mathews, by pyrethrum fogging of Acacia senegal; Abu Gmein, Blue Nile - 11°21' N 34°27' E; 19.x.2001; JM IT2, 2 minor workers.

Other images can be seen in the folder at - .

Images of a specimen from Burkina Faso, 11°07.015 N 4°23.286 W, elev 28 m; collector Alain Lenoir can be seen in the folder at - .

Images of a specimen from Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, 12.23.07° N 001.29.14° W, elev 293 m; 9.ii.2009; collector David King; King 98; vacant lot in residential area; can be seen in the folder at - .