Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality (in error): Brazil: Pará, 1846 (Ghiliani). Type-depository: MRSN.
Type notes:Spinola, 1853: 71, says that he found three workers in M. Rambur’s collection that were exactly the same as the holotype, but from Algeria. Emery, 1893j: 1, confirms that Dorylus homalinus is from North Africa.