Aenictus fuscovarius Gerstäcker

Type location Mozambique (Gerstäcker, 1859: 262); subspecies laetior (Forel, 1910c: 249, male) from Ethiopia, magrettii (Emery, 1892d: 569, illustrated, male) from Sudan, and sagittarius (Santschi, 1938a: 30, illustrated, male) from Egypt; males only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

From Senegal, as magrettii, from Gorée Island, by H. Brauns (in Wheeler, 1922) - this seeems likely to be an erroneous location.

Gerstäcker's (1859) description is at ; and Santschi (1924b) gave a brief description and illustration of the male genitalia, this is at . Emery (1892a) gave a brief description and illustration of the male genitalia of magrettii, this is at . Emery's (1892d) fuller description of magrettii is at . Forel's (1910c) description of laetior is at . Santschi's (1938c) description of sagittarius is at .