Aenictogiton schoutedeni Santschi
  Type location Zaïre
(Aenictogiton schoutedeni, n.
sp., Santschi, 1924b: 198, illustrated,male)  .
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 Santschi's
description (1924b, my translation) is at  MALE - TL 8 mm; colour rust brown; head
brown red; gaster and propodeum paler. Head and alitrunk covered with
densely packed, often confluent, hair pits; this puncturation but less
marked and more spaced out also occurs on the gaster. The overall
ground is smooth and shiny. A yellowish hair arises from each pit,
rather longer than those on fossiceps and a little shorter than
on bequaerti. The hairs decumbent, fine and short on the
gaster. The posterior angles of the petiole and genital valves with a
long fringe. wings brown with veins and fringe blackish.
Head a little shorter than fossiceps with weakly convex sides
towards the posterior angles which are rounded and narrowed. Eyes
somewhat smaller, funiculus segments shorter and ocelli smaller than in
fossiceps. Occiput border with a deep rounded
concavity.
Clypeal border weakly concave with long hairs, also on the mandibles;
the latter, three times longer than wide at the base, are arcuate on
the outer edge and slightly sinuous medially. The middle segments of
the funiculus as similar in width and length. Alitrunk as wide in front
as in the middle. Femora strongly expanded with their outer quarter
narrowed and the internal face flat. The petiole is about a sixth
longer than the posterior width, the sides straight and feebly
diverging posteriorly (as in fossiceps but not as short)
anterior border quite strongly concave, posterior less so; the median
apex as wide as in sulcatus. The pygidium has a strong
transverse impression in the posterior third.
Congo (Belgian); Luebo, collected by Dr Schouteden; one male specimen.
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The
photomontage is of the type male collated
from