Dorylus (Alaopone) antinorii (Emery)

Type locality Ethiopia (Alaopone antinorii, Emery, 1881a: 275, illustrated, worker) from Let-Marefia, collector Antinori .

Bolton (1995: 177) lists this as a junior synonym of D. (An.) molestus; it was combined in Dorylus by Dalla Torre (1893: 10) but that is the placement of Alaopone as a subgenus of Dorylus; further confirmed by Emery (1895j: 736), who curiously appears to link it with D. (Rhogmus) fimbriatus. Bolton attributed the synonymy with molestus to Emery (1910b: 12) but that is unavailable. The drawing, although of a minor is unequivocal and shows what only can be taken as an Alaopone from the overall shape and the nine-segmented antennae. I, therefore have transferred antinorii here to Dorylus (Alaopone). In his original description, Emery noted the shape of the clypeus was like that of the minors in Anomma but my review of modern specimens shows a resemblance only to the minor of Dorylus (Anomma) victoriae. That also has a clypeus with an anterior triangular projection and a head which is not obviously widest at the anterior margin, but victoriae has 11-segmented antennae with the scape reaching back beyond the mid-point of the head, like all other Anomma.

Emery's (1881a) description of the minor, as Alaopone antinorii is at .