• Combination in Dorylus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 9.
• Combination in Dorylus (Shuckardia): Emery, 1895l: 740.
• Combination in Aenictus: Emery, 1901d: 43.
• Junior synonym of Dorylus atriceps Shuckard, 1840c: Emery, 1891c: 2; Wheeler, 1911g: 172.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 9; Emery, 1895l: 740; Emery, 1901d: 43; Emery, 1904a: 111; Emery, 1910b: 31; Bolton, 1995b: 58.

Obsolete combinations

• Alaopone abeillei
• Dorylus abeillei

Citations

• André, Ern. 1886a. Appendice aux fourmis. Pp. 854-859 in: André, Edm. 1886. 1881-1886. Species des Hyménoptères d'Europe et d'Algérie. Tome Deuxième. Beaune: Edmond André, 919 + 48 pp. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1891c. Exploration scientifique de la Tunisie. Zoologie. - Hyménoptères. Révision critique des fourmis de la Tunisie. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, iii + 21 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1895l. Die Gattung Dorylus Fab. und die systematische Eintheilung der Formiciden. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 8:685-778. PDF
• Emery, C. 1901d. Note sulle Doriline. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 33:43-56. PDF
• Emery, C. 1904a. Le affinità del genere Leptanilla e i limiti delle Dorylinae. Archivio Zoologico Italiano 2:107-116. PDF
• Emery, C. 1910b. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dorylinae. Genera Insectorum 102:1-34. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1911g. A list of the type species of the genera and subgenera of Formicidae. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 21:157-175. PDF