Pheidole pieli Santschi, 1925
Minor Worker
Collected by S. Dobata
Major Worker
Collected by S. Dobata
Queen
Collected by S. Dobata
Male
Gallery
Collected by S. Dobata
Distribution and habitat
Iriomote I. in Japan.
Collected by S. Dobata
Collected by S. Dobata
Collected by S. Dobata
Collected by S. Dobata
Iriomote I. in Japan.
The occipital margin of the head is flat and sculptured, and the mesonotum has a single hump.
Larger in size and distinctly different in shape from a minor worker, this soldier has relatively long scapes compared to other species in the genus.
Smith, F. 1874. “Descriptions of new species of Tenthredinidae, Ichneumonidae, Chrysididae, Formicidae, &c. of Japan.” Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (4) 7: 373-409.