Crematogaster (Crematogaster) affabilis Forel

Type location Somalia (Cremastogaster Chiarinii Em. (i) var. affabilis n. var., Forel, 1907c: 142, worker; raised to species Collingwood, 1985: 260) Dauele Region, M de Rothschild.
worker and queen described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Forel's (1907c) description is at .

Collingwood (1985, illustrated), for specimens from Saudi Arabia, had head only slightly wider than long; propodeal spines long and thin, at least 0.25 mm; body with smooth sculpture, unicolorous dark brown to black. It is difficult to judge without seeing specimens from Saudi Arabia but Collingwood's drawing does not match the type worker.  It also seems from the type images that affabilis was described from large workers of Crematogaster chiarinii, the head shape being similar to but smaller than that of the queen I show of the latter.

The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0908514