The Ants of Africa
Genus Dorylus - Subgenus Alaopone
Dorylus (Alaopone) acutus Santschi

Dorylus (Alaopone) acutus Santschi

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type locality Zaïre (Dorylus (Alaopone) diadema Gerst., stirps acutus n. st., Santschi, 1937a: 49, illustrated, male; raised to species by Santschi, 1939a: 150), male only known (see Bolton, 1995) - see below .


Santschi's (1937a) description is at {original description}. This was supplemented by Santschi (1939a: 150) - {original description}.


{Dorylus acutus male genitalia}TL 21-22 mm, HW 3.4-3.5, PW 4.2, wing 19 mm; both angles of the extremity of stipe obliquely truncate; wing dull; overall reddish-fawn; head black except ocelli and clypeus which are red; long tufted erect hairs on head and alitrunk; wing yellow brown with nerves dark brown


{Dorylus acutus}The photomontage of the type male is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0911275.

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