Dorylus spinolae

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Dorylus spinolae (Shuckard, 1840) junior synonym of current valid taxon Dorylus fulvus (Westwood, 1839)

Labidus (Typhlopone) spinolae Shuckard, 1840c: 327 (w.) NO LOCALITY GIVEN. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: none given. Primary type depository: unknown (“in the collection of Mr Thwaites”.) Type notes: Smith, 1858a: 111, says that the single specimen was in “sugar casks from South America”. If the comment is correct then Dorylus spinolae can not be a Dorylus species.

Combination in Labidus: Westwood, 1842: 77.
Combination in Typhlopone: Smith, 1858a: 111.
Combination in Dorylus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 13
Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 111; Roger, 1861a: 45; Roger, 1863b: 20; Mayr, 1863a: 457; Dalla Torre, 1893: 13.
Junior synonym of Dorylus fulvus: Emery, 1895l: 723; Emery, 1910b: 13; Wheeler, 1922: 743; Bolton, 1995b: 180.

Obsolete combinations

Labidus spinolae

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
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
Shuckard, W. E. 1840c. Monograph of the Dorylidae, a family of the Hymenoptera Heterogyna. (Concluded from p. 271.). Annals of Natural History 5:315-328. PDF
Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. PDF
Westwood, J. O. 1842. Monograph of the hymenopterous group, Dorylides. Pp. 73-80 in: Westwood, J. O. 1842. Arcana entomologica; or illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects. Volume 1, No. 5. London: W. Smith, pp. 65-80, pl. 17-20. 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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