Aenictogiton elongatus Santschi
  Type location Zaïre
(Santschi, 1919c: 246, illustrated, male) collected at Malela, by
Burgeon  .
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 Santschi's
description (1919c, my translation) is at  MALE - TL 6-6.5 mm; colour rust, vertex
blackish, edge of gaster segments with brownish areas. Shiny; numerous
hair pits scattered on the thorax, basal gaster and next segment,
almost contiguous on the basal gaster; elsewhere a simple piliferous
puncturation. With three long yellowish hairs, fine and recurved on the
front (of the head), the sides of the thorax, the petiole lobes, the
anterior coxae and the gastral apex. A quite short pilosity (shorter
than the ocelli diameter) on the thorax, the petiole and the
appendages. Pilosity on the gaster more abundant, straight and inclined
at 35°, as long as one-third of the segments.
Head longer than with fossiceps, the eyes very convex occupy
the middle half of the sides of the head; behind the sides are
parallel. The occipital border is feebly concave. The frontal area has
a plain oval area bigger than the ocelli. The scape reaches the
posterior third of the eyes. The funiculus is less slender than the
scape, segments 3-5 as narrow as long, 4 more slender. Thorax as long
as in fossiceps, the sides converging forward of the wing
insertions. Propodeum (metanotum) more than three times as long as the
scutellum. Petiole a quarter long than the anterior width, the sides
weakly concave. The superior edge of the upper posterior lobes extended
forwards and converging, to circumscribe a shallow median groove which
connects the anterior and posterior concavities. In profile, the
petiole dorsum is convex in the anterior half and concave behind. The
lobes of the angles are rounded, and the inferior lobe is almost as
long as the node and as high as a third of the overall segment height.
Congo (Belgian), Malela, xii.1913 and 1.1914 (L.
Burgeon); two male specimens.
Close to emeryi (unknown from life to the author) but with that
has finer puncturation and lacks the inferior lobe of the petiole. The
wings are missing and the copulatory armature is hidden in the two
specimens.
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The
photomontage is of a type male collated
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