Dorylus aethiopicus

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Dorylus aethiopicus Emery, 1895 valid

Dorylus (Shuckardia) atriceps subsp. aethiopicus Emery, 1895l: 741, figs. JJ, KK (m.) SUDAN, ERITREA, TUNISIA. Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype males (number not stated). Primary type localities: Sudan: (no further data) (invalid restriction of type-locality by Wheeler, 1922: 748; no lectotype designated), Eritrea (“Abyssinia”): (no further data), Tunisia: (no further data). Primary type depository: MSNG. Type notes: Wheeler, 1922: 748, indicates that the Eritrea locality is Anseba (O. Beccari), and the Tunisia locality is Kairouan (F. Santschi).

Forel, 1907e: 201 (w.)
Combination in Dorylus (Alaopone): Forel, 1907e: 201
Subspecies of Dorylus atriceps: Forel, 1905e: 171; Forel, 1907e: 201; Santschi, 1907: 327; Emery, 1910b: 15; Wheeler, 1922: 748; Menozzi, 1940a: 267.
Status as species: Santschi, 1923e: 277; Santschi, 1939a: 153 (in key); Finzi, 1940: 155; Bolton, 1995b: 177; Borowiec, 2014: 71; Madl, 2019: 13.

Obsolete combinations

Dorylus atriceps aethiopicus

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. 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. 1910b. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dorylinae. Genera Insectorum 102:1-34. PDF
Finzi, B. 1940 ("1939"). Formiche della Libia. Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 18:155-166. PDF
Forel, A. 1905e. Miscellanea myrmécologiques II (1905). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 49:155-185. PDF
Forel, A. 1907e. Fourmis nouvelles de Kairouan et d'Orient. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 51:201-208. PDF
Madl, M. 2019. Notes on the ant fauna of Eritrea (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Type specimens deposited in the Natural History Museum Vienna (Austria) and a preliminary checklist. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie B Für Botanik Und Zoologie 121:9-18. PDF
Menozzi, C. 1940a. Contributo alla fauna della Tripolitania. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Facoltà Agraria in Portici 31:244-273. PDF
Santschi, F. 1907. Fourmis de Tunisie capturées en 1906. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 15:305-334. PDF
Santschi, F. 1923e. Descriptions de nouveaux Formicides éthiopiens et notes diverses. I. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 11:259-295. PDF
Santschi, F. 1939a. Contribution au sous-genre Alaopone Emery. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 46:143-154. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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