The Ants of Africa
SUBFAMILY DORYLINAE - Subgenus Anomma males
Subgenus Anomma introduction
TL 19 mm; black, with silky brown pubescence; vertex very convex; mesothorax with an impressed longitudinal line on each side; wings blackish brown, with slight violet irridescence, nerves black; femora, elongate triangular, much narrowed at the apex; petiole cup-shaped nearly as large as basal segment of gaster, posterior margin rounded Dorylus (Anomma) atratus Smith
. Brown winged males; with exceptional convexity to anterior of the face .
{short description of image}(cf nigricans) bigger grey-brown wings Dorylus (Anomma) funereus Emery - male; junior synonyms acherontus Santschi, pardus Santschi, stygis Santschi and zumpti Santschi
TL 28-30 mm, HW 5.4, alitrunk width 6.4, gaster width 6.5; head, base of mandibles, femora black; alitrunk and gaster blackish, rest of appendages dark red brown, extreme borders of gaster reddish brown; pubescence yellowish-grey, very fine and very close yellow, even though it is dense the base colour is still visible; wings a little duller than the type; head wider and slightly less convex than zumpti; ocelli smaller and slightly further apart but the distance from the outer edge of the lateral ocelli to the eyes is slightly bigger; mandibles longer than nigricans Dorylus (Anomma) funereus v stygis Santschi
{short description of image}TL 28-33 mm; HW 5.3 mm, alitrunk width 6-6.3 mm, middle of gaster 6 mm; head & alitrunk dark red brown to black, gaster blackish brown; alitrunk with fine fawn pubescence giving a silky appearance, much more spaced on head and gaster; posterior border of petiole straight - concave in nigricans Dorylus (Anomma) funereus var zumpti Santschi
stanleyi similar colour to zumpti but with longer more raised pubescence Dorylus (Anomma) stanleyi Forel
. Smoky (light grey) winged males .
{short description of image}{short description of image}Santschi (1937b) noted - these males are much duller than thsoe of the race burmeisteri, the wings are clear, except for the radial cell, but the nerves are blackish Dorylus (Anomma) nigricans Illiger
There seems to be no good evidence for the male ever having been found in a nest Dorylus (Anomma) burmeisteri
Forel (1909b) described the male of emeryi "(stanleyi ?n.sp...?)" in comparison with nigricans. TL 28-30 mm; HW 4.8, TL 6.6, abdomen 6.4; head with vertex near flat, slightly convex between the eyes. Frontal carinae less prominent, space between less concave; whole of head flatter, eyes smaller. Propodeal dorsum longer; petiole node larger; gaster slightly enlarged posteriorly, but less than in subgenus Rhogmus. Legs shorter. Wings darker brown. Pubescence less on thorax, less dense and more woolly, resembling grey brown felt. Specimen from Zaïre, Katanga, Mawambi, by Lemaire; rather bigger than type of emeryi. Dorylus (Anomma) molestus
(Santschi 1912b) TL 28 mm, reddish brown, head blackish, appendages brown red; with long undulating blond hairs covering all the space between the eyes and the frontal crests, from the clypeus to the occiput, with another tuft of hairs inserted on the base of the mandibles; other such long hairs on the base of the propodeum, under the alitrunk and on the femorae; alitrunk and gaster covered with a silky golden pubescence as on depilis. Head twice as wide as high much less high than in nigricans (sic) with a much flatter upper border but much more arcuate than with atratus. Eyes as convex and and raised as in atratus. Mandibles only three times as long as the bases are wide (much wider in atratus). First two segments of the funiculus smooth and shiny; scape shorter than in nigricans. Alitrunk longer and narrower than nigricans, with the scutellum narrower posteriorly. Petiole "cupuliforme" shorter than nigricans. Wings yellow or a little brownish, with brown nerves; anterior wing 19 mm; HW 5.1 mm height of head 2.3 mm, alitrunk width 5 mm. Dorylus (Anomma) opacus

{short description of image} Forel (1909b) describing a male collected by M. Luja in company with "A. wilwerthi" workers, had - TL 26-30 mm, more red and larger than that of nigricans, with longer and narrower mandibles; the vertex also is a little more "bombé" - bulging or convex.

 Dorylus (Anomma) wilverthi
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