Aenictus brazzai Santschi
  Type location Congo (Aenictus
eugenii Em var. Brazzai nov., Santschi, 1910c: 355; raised
to species by Santschi, 1924b: 204) from Brazzaville, collector A.
Weiss; worker only described (see Bolton, 1995)  .
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Santschi (1910c and 1924b) gave brief descriptions;
these are at  and  . This does not seem to me to be a
convincing species and perhaps the specimens were no more than small eugenii.
Santschi (1924b) stated he gave it species status separate from Aenictus eugenii
because of the brownish patch on the gaster dorsum, a slightly narrower
head and the absence of teeth on the clypeus; together with an overall
smaller size. The specimen I have identified as A. eugenii from
Tanzania, however, is almost exactly the same size and the photomontage
below of a co-type shows there are distinct teeth on the clypeus.
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The
photomontage is collated from The Smithsonian Insitute type images at