• Subspecies of Dorylus affinis: Wheeler, 1922: 729; Bolton, 1995b: 180.
• Status as species: Taylor et al., 2016: 549.

Obsolete combinations

• Dorylus affinis sudanicus

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Santschi, F. 1917c. Note sur Dorylus affinis Shuckard mâle et ses variétés. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 8:18-21. PDF
• Taylor, B.; Yefremova, Z. A.; Kravchenko, V. D.; Müller, G. C. 2016. The ants of Mali (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) – A historical review and new records. Entomofauna 37:545‐563. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.