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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Dorylinae
›
Dorylus
›
Dorylus mediatus
Dorylus
mediatus
Fabricius, 1804
excluded from Formicidae
Dorylus mediatus
Fabricius, 1804
: 428 (m.) CENTRAL AMERICA. Neotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: 3 syntype (?) males. Primary type locality: “America meridionali”. Primary type depository:
ZMUC
,
ZMUK
.
Type notes:
Zimsen, 1964
: 428, records 2 specimens in
ZMUC
, 1 in
ZMUK
.
Combination in
Labidus
:
Leach, 1815
: 147; Latreille, 1817b: 556; Latreille, 1817f: 141;
Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835
: 230 (footnote).
[Note:
Shuckard, 1840b
: 262, says “that it (
Dorylus mediatus
) cannot belong to either of these genera” (
Dorylus
or
Labidus
).
Westwood, 1842
: 78, says that the holotype of
Dorylus mediatus
was a male
Mutilla
, having been examined by Dr Erichson in the Royal Museum of Copenhagen.]
Status as species:
Leach, 1815
: 147; Latreille, 1817b: 556;
Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835
: 230 (footnote);
Shuckard, 1840b
: 261;
Westwood, 1842
: 78.
Excluded from
Formicidae
; transferred to family Mutillidae:
Westwood, 1842
: 78.
[Note:
Dorylus mediatus
was subsequently incorrectly retained under
Dorylus
by
Roger, 1863b
: 41, and
Mayr, 1863a
: 408.]
Citations
Fabricius, J. C.
1804.
Systema Piezatorum secundum ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus.
Brunswick: C. Reichard, xiv + 15-439 + 30 pp.
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Leach, W. E.
1815.
Entomology.
Pp. 57-172 in:
Brewster, D.
(ed.) 1815.
The Edinburgh encyclopedia.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 9.
Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, A.
1835 ("1836").
Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hyménoptères. Tome I.
Paris: Roret, 547 pp.
PDF
Mayr, G.
1863a.
Formicidarum index synonymicus.
Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460.
PDF
Roger, J.
1863b.
Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten.
Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65.
PDF
Shuckard, W. E.
1840b.
Monograph of the Dorylidae, a family of the Hymenoptera Heterogyna. (Continued from p. 201.).
Annals of Natural History 5:258-271.
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Westwood, J. O.
1842.
Monograph of the hymenopterous group, Dorylides.
Pp. 73-80 in:
Westwood, J. O.
1842.
Arcana entomologica; or illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects. Volume 1, No. 5.
London: W. Smith, pp. 65-80, pl. 17-20.
PDF
Zimsen, E.
1964.
The type material of I. C. Fabricius.
Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 656 pp.
PDF
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