Dorylus planifrons

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Dorylus planifrons Mayr, 1865 junior synonym of current valid taxon Dorylus helvolus (Linnaeus, 1764)

Dorylus planifrons Mayr, 1865: 74, pl. 3, fig. 21 (m.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) male. Primary type locality: South Africa: Cape Prov., Cape of Good Hope (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: NHMW. Type notes: No indication of number of specimens is given.

Junior synonym of Dorylus helvolus: Emery, 1888b: 350; Dalla Torre, 1893: 11; Emery, 1895l: 714; Emery, 1910b: 10; Wheeler, 1922: 733; 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. 1888b ("1887"). Le tre forme sessuali del Dorylus helvolus L. e degli altri Dorilidi. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 19:344-351. 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. 1865. Formicidae. In: Novara Expedition 1865. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte "Novara" um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. Zoologischer Theil. Bd. II. Abt. 1. Wien: K. Gerold's Sohn, 119 pp. 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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