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:
1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2)
Smith, 1858a: 111, says that the specimen(s) were in “sugar casks from South America”. If the comment is correct then
Dorylus thwaitsii can not be a
Dorylus species.