Dorylus (Dorylus) sanghae Taylor new species
  Type locality Central
African Republic, male only known  .
MALE DESCRIPTION: Near to Dorylus affinis;
TL ca 26.5 mm; anterior margin of clypeus weakly concave (convex in affinis); mandibles without hairs
on the basal one-third and the
apex uniquely flattened; scape as long as up to the 6-7th segments
of the funiculus, reach back to the level of the posterior edge of the
median ocellus (no more than the mid-point in affinis); upper border of head
(from one eye to the other)
horizontal; seen from above (the ocelli) the line from the neck to the
compound eyes is convex; erect hairs on alitrunk semidecumbent but much
denser than affinis, also in a regular longitudinal arrangement
(scruffy in affinis type); gaster without erect pilosity except
on the apical segment; mandibles a dull mahogany red; surface of head
and alitrunk finely but distinctly sculptured; apex of genital stipes
distinctively plumed (smooth in affinis);
funiculus segments 2-apex near smooth (more distinctively spiculate
in affinis)
TL ca 26.5 mm; HW 4.0, HL 1.9, SL 1.5, PW 4.8, forewing
15.3 (affinis TL ca 23 mm, HW
4.0, HL 2.0, SL 1.5, PW 4.0, FW ca 18.0)
Name derived from the River Sangha, in the Dzanga-Sangha
National Park.
Specimen deposited in the Oxford University Museum of
Natural History.
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The photomontage is of the holotype male from the Central
African Republic, Dzanga-Sangha NP; CAR HS2; 10.x.2008; 18h30-3h;
Camp de transit 2; 03°06'14.6" N 16°08'52.1" E 493 m; Au dessus d'une
chute d'eau (ruisseau Songo 1) à proximité du camp; collector Philippe
Annoyer.