Dorylus antinorii

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Dorylus antinorii (Emery, 1881) junior synonym of current valid taxon Dorylus nigricans molestus (Gerstäcker, 1859)

Alaopone antinorii Emery, 1881a: 275, figs. (w.) ETHIOPIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Ethiopia (“Abyssinia”): Scioa, Let-Marefia (Antinori). Primary type depository: MSNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0905735.

Combination in Dorylus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 10.
Combination in Dorylus (Alaopone): Emery, 1895l: 736.
Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 10; Emery, 1895l: 736.
Junior synonym of Dorylus nigricans molestus: Emery, 1910b: 12; Wheeler, 1922: 739; Bolton, 1995b: 177.

Obsolete combinations

Alaopone antinorii

Citations

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. 1881a. Spedizione italiana nell'Africa equatoriale. Risultati zoologici. Formiche. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 16:270-276. 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
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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