Dorylus (Anomma) indocilis Santschi new status
  Type locality Zaïre (Dorylus
(Anomma) kohli Wasm., v. indocilis n. var., Santschi, 1933b:
98, workers, not illustrated) from Kunungu, collected by Schouteden;
worker and soldier known (see Bolton, 1995)  .
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Santschi's (1933b) description is at  .
Raignier & van Boven (1955: 33) cited the original
description of four workers, TL 8-9 mm; a small form characterised by
near parallel sides to the square head; but with longer and narrower
mandibles than the type kohli. In their collections, and at the
Tervuren Museum, they saw specimens
that matched the description but hesitated over whether the characters
had any significance beyond being due to variability within colonies.
They made four field collections, with 108 specimens, TL majors range
9-6.3 mm and minima 3.0-2.2 mm; sides of head slightly convergent to
rear (separating them from victoriae) mandibles shiny, pointed
and curved, basal and subapical teeth with denticles between; generally
head red-brown, anterior border black, mandible dark-red; thorax and
abdomen bright; front of head semi-matt and finely but very sparsely
puncturate, posterior shiny, with minute pilosity; body semi-matt to
shiny.
The workers I previously thought wrongly to be indocilis
can be seen at Dorylus (Anomma) molestus.
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The photomontage of the
type major worker is collated from 
The photomontage of the
type minor worker is collated from