• Status as species: Emery, 1910b: 31; Arnold, 1915: 137; Wheeler, 1922: 754; Bolton, 1995b: 60; Gómez, 2022: 47 (redescription); Gómez et al., 2024: 5.

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1915. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:1-159. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1910b. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dorylinae. Genera Insectorum 102:1-34. PDF
• Forel, A. 1901e. [Untitled. Introduced by: "Faccio seguire le descrizioni mandatemi dal Prof. Forel di due specie africaine della sua collezione".]. Pp. 48-49 in: Emery, C. 1901d. Note sulle Doriline. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 33:43-56. PDF
• Gómez, K. 2022. A revision of the Afrotropical species of the Dorylinae ant genus Aenictus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) based on the worker caste. Belgian Journal of Entomology 124:1-86. PDF
• Gómez, K.; Csősz, S.; Jégh, T.; Keller, R. A. 2024. Aenictus brutus sp. nov., a new species of the army ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae) from Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve Forest (Liberia). Belgian Journal of Entomology 148:1-9. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.