Acropyga silvestrii Emery

Type location Eritrea (Acropyga silvestrii n., Emery, 1915g: 21, worker, illustrated) Ghinda
worker only described (see Bolton, 1995, location given as Ethiopia) .

Emery's (1915g) description is at .

From Santschi's (1926b) description of arnoldi, it seems this has a longer head, noticeably longer than wide; the petiole is lower and thicker.

The photomontage of the holotype worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0905164.

The photomontage of a worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0178254. From Kenya. The head shape differs from the type description but the size is of the right order and the location close to the original, so it seems reasonable to identify this as A. silvestrii.