The Ants of Africa
Genus Dorylus - Subgenus Anomma
Dorylus (Anomma) erraticus (F. Smith)

Dorylus (Anomma) erraticus (F. Smith)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type locality Guinea (Anomma erratica, F.Smith, 1865: 71, worker wrongly given as from "New Guinea"; location correction by Wilson, 1964a: 443; in Dorylus by Emery, 1910b: 15; in Anomma by Donisthorpe, 1932c: 473); worker only known (see Bolton (1995) .

Smith's (1865) very brief description is at {original description}.
Smith, F. 1865. Descriptions of new species of hymenopterous insects from the Islands of Sumatra, Sula, Gilolo, Salwatty, and New Guinea, collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace. J. Proc. Linn. Soc. London Zool., 8, 61-94.

As a single small (ca 4.3 mm) worker there is no possibility for modern species allocation.

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