Aenictus maroccanus Santschi
  Type location Morocco
(Aenictus maroccanus n.
sp., Santschi, 1926e: 232; worker, not illustrated) from Rabat, collector Théry, one worker.
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Santschi's (1926e) description is at  .
Aktac, Radchenko & Kiran (2004) felt that this is not an Aenictus
arguing that the worker is "blind, has 2-segmented waist, 12-jointed
antennae, its spiracles are situated distinctly in front of midlength
of the postpetiole (in Aenictus
they are behind or about midlength of postpetiole), the petiole
ventrally has a sharp dent directed backwards; its head has a slightly
concave occipital margin and distinctly pointed occipital corners and
its head
and alitrunk are densely finely punctured, appearing matt while the
whole body is brown in colour (Figs 11–12). All these features led us
exclude A. maroccanus from Aenictus.
Unfortunately, the specimen is partly damaged (it has not any tarsi and
part of legs), and we could not identify it exactly, but with no doubt
it belongs to the subfamily Ecitoninae. We may only suppose that
specimen of A. maroccanus was
mislabelled and really it was found somewhere in South or Central
America. Of course, one could also speculate that this is a native
member of Ecitoninae, probably new genus or even new subfamily, but
this could be resolved if more material was found".
Santschi, probably having examined the sole worker before mounting gave the subpetiolar process as
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The
photomontage is of the holotype worker collated
from