Dorylus planiceps

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Dorylus planiceps Haldeman, 1849 junior synonym of current valid taxon Dorylus affinis Shuckard, 1840

Dorylus plancipes Haldeman, 1849b: 204 (m.) LIBERIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype male. Primary type locality: Liberia (“West Africa”): Cape Palmas (T.S. Savage). Primary type depository: ANSP.

[Justified emendation of spelling to Dorylus planiceps: Dalla Torre, 1893: 13.]
Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 13.
Junior synonym of Dorylus affinis: Emery, 1895l: 719; Emery, 1910b: 9; Wheeler, 1922: 728; Bolton, 1995b: 180.

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. 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
Haldeman, S. S. 1849b. On several new Hymenoptera of the genera Ampulex, Sigalphus, Chelonus and Dorylus. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 4:203-204. 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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