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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Dorylinae
›
Dorylus
›
Dorylus fulvus
Dorylus
fulvus
(Westwood, 1839)
valid
Typhlopone fulva
Westwood, 1839a
: 218 (in text), fig. 86.17-20 (w.)
Primary type information:
Type-material: 3 syntype workers. Type-locality: none given, “found dead in sugar” (
C.C. Babington
). Type-depository:
OXUM
.
Type notes:
Number of specimens is given by
Westwood, 1840b
: 81.
[Misspelled as
fulvis
by
Prins, 1963
: 97, in the combination
Dorylus fulvus badius
.]
Emery, 1895l
: 723 (m.)
Combination in
Dorylus
:
Dalla Torre, 1893
: 10.
Combination in
Dorylus (Typhlopone)
:
Emery, 1895l
: 723.
Status as species:
Westwood, 1840b
: 87 (redescription);
Smith, 1858a
: 110;
Roger, 1861a
: 45;
Roger, 1863b
: 20;
Mayr, 1863a
: 457;
Dalla Torre, 1893
: 10;
Emery, 1895l
: 723;
Emery, 1897f
: 595;
Emery, 1899a
: 499;
Emery, 1901l
: 196 (in key);
Forel, 1904c
: 369;
Forel, 1904d
: 5;
Mayr, 1907a
: 387;
Mayr, 1907b
: 8;
Emery, 1910b
: 13;
Forel, 1910a
: 6;
Stitz, 1910
: 128;
Forel, 1910e
: 4;
Karavaiev, 1912a
: 2;
Forel, 1913d
: 427;
Santschi, 1914d
: 333;
Arnold, 1915
: 125;
Emery, 1915e
: 6;
Stitz, 1917
: 335;
Bondroit, 1918
: 15;
Donisthorpe, 1918c
: 166;
Emery, 1919c
: 102;
Crawley, 1920a
: 163;
Wheeler, 1922
: 742;
Müller, 1923b
: 30;
Santschi, 1926e
: 235;
Kutter, 1928
: 66; Crawley, in
Santschi, 1928d
: 55 (redescription);
Santschi, 1931e
: 407;
Finzi, 1936
: 156;
Finzi, 1940
: 155;
Weber, 1952c
: 6;
Ceballos, 1956
: 295;
Cagniant, 1964
: 86;
Cagniant, 1968a
: 142;
Cagniant, 1970a
: 413;
Collingwood, 1985
: 233;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a
: 52;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b
: 264;
Kugler, 1988
: 256;
Bolton, 1995b
: 178;
Collingwood & Agosti, 1996
: 307;
Espadaler, 1997g
: 27;
Cagniant, 2006
: 195;
Petrov, 2006
: 82 (in key);
Kiran & Karaman, 2012
: 5;
Hita Garcia
et al.
, 2013
: 203;
Borowiec, 2014
: 71 (see note in bibliography);
Bharti
et al.
, 2016
: 22;
Rasheed
et al.
, 2019
: 428.
Senior synonym of
Dorylus juvenculus clausii
:
Emery, 1895l
: 723;
Emery, 1910b
: 13;
Wheeler, 1922
: 744;
Müller, 1923b
: 30;
Bolton, 1995b
: 178.
Senior synonym of
Dorylus dahlbomii
:
Emery, 1895l
: 723;
Emery, 1910b
: 13;
Wheeler, 1922
: 743;
Bolton, 1995b
: 178.
Senior synonym of
Dorylus homalinus
:
Emery, 1895l
: 723;
Emery, 1910b
: 13;
Wheeler, 1911g
: 160;
Wheeler, 1922
: 743.
Senior synonym of
Dorylus kirbii
:
Smith, 1858a
: 110;
Mayr, 1863a
: 457;
Roger, 1863b
: 20;
Dalla Torre, 1893
: 10;
Emery, 1895l
: 723;
Emery, 1910b
: 13;
Wheeler, 1922
: 743;
Bolton, 1995b
: 178.
Senior synonym of
Dorylus shuckardi
:
Emery, 1895l
: 723;
Emery, 1910b
: 13;
Wheeler, 1922
: 743;
Bolton, 1995b
: 178.
Senior synonym of
Dorylus spinolae
:
Emery, 1895l
: 723;
Emery, 1910b
: 13;
Wheeler, 1922
: 743;
Bolton, 1995b
: 178.
Senior synonym of
Dorylus thwaitsii
:
Emery, 1895l
: 723;
Emery, 1910b
: 13;
Wheeler, 1922
: 743;
Bolton, 1995b
: 178.
Junior synonyms
Dorylus dahlbomii
(Westwood, 1840)
Obsolete combination(s):
Typhlopone dahlbomii
Dorylus homalinus
(Spinola, 1851)
Obsolete combination(s):
Cosmaecetes homalinus
Dorylus juvenculus clausii
(Joseph, 1882)
Obsolete combination(s):
Typhlopone clausii
Dorylus kirbii
(Shuckard, 1840)
Obsolete combination(s):
Labidus kirbii
Dorylus shuckardi
(Westwood, 1840)
Obsolete combination(s):
Typhlopone shuckardi
Dorylus spinolae
(Shuckard, 1840)
Obsolete combination(s):
Labidus spinolae
Dorylus thwaitsii
(Shuckard, 1840)
Obsolete combination(s):
Labidus thwaitsii
Obsolete combinations
Typhlopone fulva
Current subspecies (nominal plus)
D. f. badius
Gerstäcker, 1859
D. f. crosi
Santschi, 1926
D. f. dentifrons
Wasmann, 1904
D. f. eurous
Emery, 1915
D. f. glabratus
Shuckard, 1840
D. f. juvenculus
Shuckard, 1840
D. f. mordax
Santschi, 1931
D. f. obscurior
Wheeler, 1925
D. f. punicus
Santschi, 1926
D. f. ruficeps
Santschi, 1926
D. f. saharensis
Santschi, 1926
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