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Pheidole megacephala

African big-headed ant

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Pheidole megacephala (Fabricius, 1793)

GBIF · view at source · updated on 03/07/2026

African Big-headed Ant

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Animalia · Arthropoda · Insecta · Hymenoptera · Formicidae · Pheidole

Pheidole megacephala

Wikidata · view at source · CC0 · updated on 03/07/2026

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(c) Jake Nitta, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Jake Nitta · CC BY · iNaturalist

(c) Subramanian Sevgan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Subramanian Sevgan · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

(c) Alex Rebelo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Alex Rebelo · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

(c) Mark Ayers, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Mark Ayers · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

(c) Ricky Taylor, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Ricky Taylor · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

(c) Wilderness Safaris Botswana - Conservation Team, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Wilderness Safaris Botswana - Conservation Team · CC BY · iNaturalist

(c) Peter Slingsby, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Peter Slingsby · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

Occurrences (GBIF) 128 countries · 12277 records

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Year	Records
1887	2
1888	2
1889	1
1892	11
1893	3
1894	1
1900	1
1901	1
1903	1
1905	1
1906	1
1912	6
1913	5
1914	14
1915	1
1918	2
1919	11
1920	13
1921	11
1922	5
1923	37
1924	2
1925	11
1926	24
1927	38
1928	42
1929	2
1930	4
1931	5
1932	14
1933	19
1934	20
1935	2
1936	69
1937	12
1938	11
1939	6
1940	52
1941	34
1942	8
1943	2
1944	11
1945	2
1946	1
1947	13
1948	3
1949	26
1950	38
1951	26
1952	7
1953	11
1954	2
1955	9
1956	5
1957	50
1958	5
1959	5
1960	54
1961	65
1962	54
1963	22
1964	47
1965	35
1966	30
1967	188
1968	28
1969	24
1970	9
1971	5
1972	7
1973	3
1974	18
1975	9
1976	1
1977	10
1978	14
1979	2
1980	2
1981	31
1982	5
1983	15
1984	1
1985	7
1986	29
1987	13
1988	56
1989	104
1990	64
1991	41
1992	152
1993	30
1994	19
1995	24
1996	24
1997	26
1998	15
1999	261
2000	22
2001	78
2002	114
2003	339
2004	222
2005	620
2006	479
2007	402
2008	467
2009	139
2010	162
2011	123
2012	159
2013	1,710
2014	100
2015	330
2016	515
2017	1,190
2018	110
2019	158
2020	228
2021	303
2022	432
2023	355
2024	260
2025	504
2026	228

Australia · 3,028 Egypt · 1,584 United States · 1,555 Madagascar · 995 South Africa · 771 Mauritius · 516 New Zealand · 306 Mexico · 224 Cape Verde · 213 Réunion · 202 Seychelles · 192 Ghana · 168 Kenya · 145 Mozambique · 131 Rwanda · 113 Ecuador · 102 Gambia · 100 New Caledonia · 97 Congo - Kinshasa · 89 Portugal · 89 Fiji · 74 Nigeria · 71 Micronesia · 64 U.S. Virgin Islands · 59 China · 53 Puerto Rico · 52 Anguilla · 50 Cuba · 49 Bermuda · 48 Barbados · 46 Niue · 45 Unknown Region · 43 Mayotte · 38 Japan · 36 Benin · 33 Uganda · 33 Brazil · 31 St. Kitts & Nevis · 30 Côte d’Ivoire · 29 St. Martin · 27 Trinidad & Tobago · 27 Spain · 26 French Polynesia · 26 Senegal · 25 Tanzania · 24 Kiribati · 22 St. Lucia · 22 Taiwan · 22 France · 22 Zimbabwe · 20 Colombia · 19 Guadeloupe · 18 Tokelau · 18 Bahamas · 17 Papua New Guinea · 17 British Virgin Islands · 16 Iceland · 15 India · 14 Liberia · 14 Vanuatu · 14 Eswatini · 13 Tonga · 13 Singapore · 12 Cook Islands · 12 Antigua & Barbuda · 11 Northern Mariana Islands · 11 Martinique · 11 Oman · 11 São Tomé & Príncipe · 11 Botswana · 10 Canada · 10 Dominica · 10 Dominican Republic · 10 Hong Kong SAR China · 10 U.S. Outlying Islands · 10 Zambia · 10 Germany · 9 Aruba · 8 Malaysia · 8 Wallis & Futuna · 8 Costa Rica · 7 Curaçao · 6 Gabon · 6 French Guiana · 6 Marshall Islands · 6 French Southern Territories · 6 St. Vincent & Grenadines · 6 Vietnam · 6 Macao SAR China · 5 Solomon Islands · 5 Sint Maarten · 5 St. Barthélemy · 4 Ethiopia · 4 Haiti · 4 Indonesia · 4 Comoros · 4 Montserrat · 4 American Samoa · 3 Cameroon · 3 Saudi Arabia · 3 St. Helena · 3 Angola · 2 Central African Republic · 2 Algeria · 2 Guam · 2 Guyana · 2 Jamaica · 2 Cayman Islands · 2 Morocco · 2 Namibia · 2 Philippines · 2 Sweden · 2 Thailand · 2 Yemen · 2 Argentina · 1 Belize · 1 Chile · 1 Christmas Island · 1 Eritrea · 1 Finland · 1 United Kingdom · 1 Croatia · 1 Peru · 1 Pakistan · 1 Palau · 1 Turks & Caicos Islands · 1 Tunisia · 1 Samoa · 1

Australia 10/08/2026 · Martin Rady · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record

Australia 09/08/2026 · Martin Rady · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record

Japan 08/08/2026 · unipon · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record

Australia 05/08/2026 · David White · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Australia 05/08/2026 · simon_hehir · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Japan 30/07/2026 · unipon · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record

Japan 29/07/2026 · unipon · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record

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