Aenictus togoensis Santschi
Type location Togo (Santschi, 1915c: 248, male) no collector
or location; male only described (see Bolton, 1995)
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Santschi's (1915c) description is -
MALE - TL 4.5; forewing 3.8 mm. Head, seen from above, two and a half
times wider than long, slightly concave anteriorly. Cervical border
rather concave, sides forward of the eyes and between the ocelli and
the eyes slightly convex. Eyes smaller than fuscovarius.
Ocelli small, laterals set twice their diameter away from median.
Mandibles three times as long as the basal width, without teeth,
internal edge slightly concave. Scape short, lobed apically before the
exterior joint. Funiculus segments 3-8 longer than wide, apical
segment strongly conical. Petiole two-thirds wider than long, more
strongly concave than fuscovarius. Femora more expanded than
latter but less than in moebii. Copulatory armature partially
missing.
Colour fawn rust; appendages and apex of gaster yellow rust.
Decumbent pilosity fine, long and white; resembling that of fuscovarius
but more raised and irregular on the head and members.
Single male specimen from Togo, in German Entomology Museum.
The smallest of the then known Aenictus.
Santschi (1920d) gave a fuller, illustrated description at

Also from Ivory Coast at Dimbroko, by Le Moult (in Wheeler,
1922). |