Aenictus humeralis Santschi

Type location Mali (Santschi, 1910g: 752, illustrated, male); subspecies chevalieri (Santschi, 1910g: 754, male) from Senegal, collected at Casamance, by Chevalier, and viridans (Santschi, 1915c: 248, male) from Benin, collected at Kouandé, by Desanti; males only described (see Bolton, 1995, where the type location is wrongly given as "Sudan"). The type location was confirmed as Mali, i.e French Sudan, by Santschi (1930a: 56), reporting a further finding, by Andrieu, of males from Koulouba, a suburb of the type location Bamakou .

Santschi's (1910g) illustrated description is at ; and Santschi's (1910g) description of chevalieri is at .

Santschi (1915c) described the male of viridans as - TL 8-8.5 mm. Colour yellow brown with an olive tone; thoracic dorsum darker; head black; mandibles and legs red-brown; veins of wings greenish brown. Extremity of paramere a little more scalloped on the dorsum and the volsellae are slightly shorter, otherwise as the type. In the type the head is yellow rust and chevalieri has an entirely rust coloured head. Specimens from Benin [Haut-Dahomey], Kouandé, by Desanti, 6 males.