Separation of available males

1	Short mandibles, with basal half narrowing only slightly; petiole seen from above with convex sides	2
--	Long mandibles with sharp narrowing close to the base; petiole from above with near parallel sides	4
.	Head with short mandibles	.
2	Head with a dense covering of long hairs on whole of frontal area and a deep frontal sulcus	3
--	TL ca 26 mm, HW 3.8, mandible 2.0, SL 0.9, gaster width ca 4.2; petiole width/gaster base posterior = 0.80; HW/PW = 0.91, front of head (forward of the ocelli) without long hairs except on the clypeal margin; the propodeum from above is unlike all the others, in being almost as long as the petiole (the others have a narrow propodeum, never more than about a third of the petiole length); whole of gaster, especially the apex shiny (cf dull in other species)	.
--	Head in profile with a near flat occiput; the ocelli relatively very large and set close together (distance between anterior and posterior ocelli about one-third their diameter); occiput shallow in both frontal and lateral views; scape unusually short, as long as from the funiculus base to the mid-point of the fourth segment; the funiculus with a distinctive small first segment, the whole of all the other segments bright orange-yellow and very densely spiculate; mandibles of a very distinctive shape	Central African Republic - new species annoyeri
3	TL 24.5 mm, HW 3.8, mandible 2.0, SL 0.9; petiole width/gaster base posterior = 0.77; HW/PW = 0.82, petiole with convex sides from above; gaster ca 4.2
.	Head very gibbous or domed, with the dome noticeably exceeding the size of the eyes; head with a deep median longitudinal sulcus; front of the face forward of the ocelli with numerous short decumbent hairs	Gambia & Central African Republic - glabratus
.	Head with long sharply narrowed mandibles	.
4	Head in full face view evenly domed	7
--	Head in full face view with the median ocelli raised prominently	5
5	General colour pale reddish-brown with brown eyes	6
--	Generally darker brown especially the head, gaster a little paler than alitrunk and petiole;.TL ca 36 mm, HW 5.3, mandible 4.4, SL 1.7, petiole width/gaster base posterior = 0.77; HW/PW = 0.98; wing membranes also a little duller and deeper tint; hairs and pubescence less golden and shining, more grayish; TL 33-36 mm, PW < 6 mm	.
.		West Africa & Congo Basin - obscurior
6	TL 34.2 mm, HW 5.0, mandible 3.2, SL 2.0, petiole width/gaster base posterior = 0.80; HW/PW = 0.86; petiole rectangular with near straight sides from above, not as broad as the base of the gaster; long hairs on apical sternite quite thick and straight	.
	median ocellus to border of compound eye = 2.83 X ocellus diameter; speculative as male undescribed	West Africa & Congo Basin - fulvus s.s.
.	Head in full face view evenly domed	.
7	Head with a dense covering of decumbent hairs	8
--	TL ca 36 mm, HW 5.0, mandible 3.7, SL 1.4, petiole width/gaster base posterior = 0.83, HW/PW = 0.87; petiole from above with distinctly convex sides	.
.		North Africa to Israel - juvenculus [probable syn. Dorylus punicus]
8	TL 33.7 mm, HW 5.2, mandible 3.6, SL 2.0; petiole width/gaster base posterior = 0.83; HW/PW = 0.81; hairs on apical sternite quite fine and sinuous	.
.	median ocellus to border of compound eye = 2.67 X ocellus diameter	South Africa - badius

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