Aenictus hamifer Emery

  Type location Somalia (Aenictus hamifer n. sp., Emery, 1896i: 153, illustrated, male) Uebi-Ganana, by Bottego, - see below
junior synonym (here) spinosior (Aenictus hamifer Em. r. spinosior n. stirps, Stitz, 1917: 335, illustrated, male) from Algeria, Raris, 15-17.x.1914, von Geyr - see below
males only described (see Bolton, 1995, has type location as Kenya) .

Emery's (1896i) illustrated description is at , the location "Uebi-Ganana" probably equates to the town of Doolow, Somalia, at the confluence of the now named rivers Dawa and Genale, below the confluence the river is named Webi Jubba River (Google Maps). see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittorio_Bottego, for details of the exploration of the "Giuba" river. Stitz's (1917) illustrated description of spinosior is at .

Egypt Records - Gebel Elba (Sharaf list, 2006).

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The photomontage is of the holotype male collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0903756

The photomontage is of the holotype male of spinosior collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=focol1139