Dorylus (Alaopone) antinorii (Emery)
  Type locality Ethiopia
(Alaopone Antinorii n. sp., Emery, 1881a: 275, illustrated,
worker)
from Let-Marefia, collector Antinori - see below  .
Bolton (1995: 177) listed this as a junior synonym of D.
(An.) molestus; it was combined in Dorylus by Dalla Torre
(1893: 10) but that is the placement of Alaopone as a subgenus
of Dorylus; further confirmed by Emery (1895j: 736), who
curiously appears to link it with D. (Rhogmus) fimbriatus.
Bolton attributed the synonymy with molestus to Emery (1910b:
12) but there it is listed under molestus without
clarification. The drawing, although of a minor is unequivocal and
shows what only can be taken as an Alaopone from the overall
shape and the nine-segmented antennae. I, therefore have
transferred antinorii here to Dorylus (Alaopone). In
his original description, Emery noted the shape of the clypeus was like
that of the minors in Anomma but my review of modern specimens
shows a resemblance only to the minor of Dorylus (Anomma) langi.
That also has a clypeus with an anterior triangular projection and a
head which is not obviously widest at the anterior margin, but langi
has 11-segmented antennae with the scape reaching back beyond the
mid-point of the head, like all other Anomma.
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 Emery's (1881a)
description of the minor, as Alaopone
antinorii is at  . Illustration with scale added to give
approximate size, TL 3.0 mm, of Emery (1881a).
I have tentatively associated a range of media workers
from Ethiopia with this probable minima worker. The general
description of colour and quite dense spiculate sculpturation appears
to match. It seems from those that the species actually is an Anomma.
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The
photomontage of the type media (?) worker is collated from 
The photomontage is
of
a media worker from Ethiopia; collector A Pauly. 
The photomontage is
of
a media worker from Ethiopia; collector A Pauly. 
The photomontage is
of
a media worker from Ethiopia; collector A Pauly.