Dorylus homalinus

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Dorylus homalinus (Spinola, 1851) junior synonym of current valid taxon Dorylus fulvus (Westwood, 1839)

Cosmaecetes homalinus Spinola, 1851b: 55 (w.) NORTH AFRICA. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: Pará, Belém, 1846 (V. Ghiliani) (locality in error). Primary type depository: MRSN. Type notes: 1) Spinola, 1853: 71, says that he found three workers in M. Rambur’s collection that were exactly the same as the holotype, but from Algeria. 2) Emery, 1893j: 1, says that the type specimen is missing, but its label still remains; he confirms that Dorylus homalinus is from North Africa.

[Also described as new by Spinola, 1853: 71.]
[Misspelled as omalinus by Emery, 1893j: 1; Wheeler, 1911g: 160.]
Combination in Typhlopone: Smith, 1858a: 111.
Combination in Dorylus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 11.
Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 111; Roger, 1861a: 45; Roger, 1863b: 20; Mayr, 1863a: 457; Dalla Torre, 1893: 11.
Junior synonym of Dorylus fulvus juvenculus: Emery, 1893j: 1; Bolton, 1995b: 179 (error).
Junior synonym of Dorylus fulvus: Emery, 1895l: 723; Emery, 1910b: 13; Wheeler, 1911g: 160; Wheeler, 1922: 743.

Obsolete combinations

Cosmaecetes homalinus

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. 1893j. Intorno ad alcune formiche della collezione Spinola. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Università di Torino 8(163):1-3. 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
Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
Roger, J. 1861a. Die Ponera-artigen Ameisen (Schluss). Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 5:1-54. PDF
Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. PDF
Spinola, M. 1851b. Compte rendu des Hyménoptères inédits provenants du voyage entomologique de M. Ghiliani dans le Para en 1846. Extrait des Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de Turin (2)13:3-78.
Spinola, M. 1853. Compte rendu des Hyménoptères inédits provenants du voyage entomologique de M. Ghiliani dans le Para en 1846. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino (2)13:19-94.
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
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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