Dorylus (Anomma) emeryi Mayr

Type locality Cameroun (Mayr, 1896: 225, all worker morphs; collector Y. Sjöstedt); subspecies pulsi (Forel, 1904d: 170, worker; Santschi, 1923e: 176, major) from "West Africa"; workers only known (see Bolton, 1995; may be in Raignier & van Boven, 1955) .

Mayr's (1896) description is at and . Emery's (1901d) description of pulsi is at . Santschi's (1923e) description of the soldier of pulsi, from Aburi, Ghana, collector F Silvestri, is at .

From Raignier & van Boven (1955), Mayr's original description made comparison with nigricans, syn. rubellus. Raignier & van Boven considered this unfortunate as the closer comparison would be with gerstaeckeri; emeryi being bigger TL 12.7 mm; head rectangular, slightly longer than wide, and slightly more than 1/3 of TL (in gerstaeckeri it is slightly less than 1/3); posterior border of head deeply scalloped; scape more slender than nigricans and not reaching mid-length of head; petiole a little longer than wide (Santschi, 1912b); colour red-brown; most of head shiny, the vertex strongly so, with sparse puncturation; body semi-matt, legs shiny. The variety pulsi of Forel (1904) was described solely from media morphs and so has no merit.

Wheeler (1922) listed findings from Ghana (Aburi, by F. Silvestri); Cameroun (Mundame, by Conradt) and Zaire (by Kohl); pulsi was solely from "West Africa".

Nigeria specimens (Dorylus (Anomma) species in wilverthi group, Taylor, 1978b: 13). WORKERS. TL 10.13-4.18 mm; ; at least four morphs; largest HL 3.47, HW 1.41, SL 1.14, PW 1.14, petiole length 0.87. Humle specimens larger - major TL 14 mm, and six morphs separable.
Colour red-brown. Sculpturation of fine dense puncturation. Erect hairs relatively abundant on gaster, petiole and on dorsum of propodeum. Head widest at mid-length, pronounced domed dorsolateral posterior prominences or tubercles. Antennal scape gradually thickening to a broad apex. Mandibles with a long apical tooth subtended by a denticulate margin running to a basal triangular tooth; numerous hairs on the inner margin. Antennal scapes short and thick, funiculus segments beadlike. Subpetiolar process is a blunt rear-curved triangle. All morphs of similar appearance, progressively lighter as size diminishes, smallest yellow-brown, tubercles on head visible on all except the smallest.
The specimens in the museum at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Idi Ayunre, were not fully labelled but probably were collected by R.H. Booker at CRIN or Ibadan (Moor Plantation?).

The photomontage is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0172655&shot=p1&project=null and is of a specimen from Ivory Coast, collected by Caspar Schoning.