Labidus thwaitsii Shuckard, 1840 an obsolete combination of Dorylus thwaitsii (Shuckard, 1840)
Labidus (Typhlopone) thwaitsii Shuckard, 1840c: 326 (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: 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.
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