Dorylus aethiopicus

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Dorylus aethiopicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dorylinae
Genus: Dorylus
Species: D. aethiopicus
Binomial name
Dorylus aethiopicus
Emery, 1895

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Specimen Labels

Identification

A member of the Dorylus orientalis-group

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 35.674444° to 3.73333°.

     
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: Eritrea, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Sudan (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.
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Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.
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Biology

Castes

Images from AntWeb

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Syntype of Dorylus atriceps aethiopicusMale (alate). Specimen code casent0903715. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • aethiopicus. Dorylus (Shuckardia) atriceps subsp. aethiopicus Emery, 1895j: 741, figs. JJ, KK (m.) SUDAN, ERITREA, TUNISIA.
    • Type-material: syntype males (number not stated).
    • Type-localities: Eritrea (“Abyssinia”), Sudan, and Tunisia (no further data).
    • [Note: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 748, indicates that the Eritrea locality is Anseba (O. Beccari), and the Tunisia locality is Kairouan (F. Santschi).]
    • Type-depository: MSNG.
    • Forel, 1907b: 201 (w.).
    • Combination in D. (Alaopone): Forel, 1907b: 201.
    • Subspecies of atriceps: Forel, 1905b: 171; Forel, 1907b: 201; Santschi, 1907: 327; Emery, 1910b: 15; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 748; Menozzi, 1940: 267.
    • Status as species: Santschi, 1923e: 277; Santschi, 1939a: 153 (in key); Finzi, 1940: 155; Bolton, 1995b: 177; Borowiec, L. 2014: 71; Madl, 2019: 13.
    • Distribution: Eritrea, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Libya, Mali, Sudan, Tunisia.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Baroni Urbani C. 1977. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel (2. Teil). Mitt. Entomol. Ges. Basel (n.s.) 27: 61-102.
  • Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
  • Emery C. 1895. Die Gattung Dorylus Fab. und die systematische Eintheilung der Formiciden. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 8: 685-778.
  • Emery C. 1910. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dorylinae. Genera Insectorum 102: 1-34.
  • Finzi B. 1940. Formiche della Libia. Memorie della Societa Entomologica Italiana 18: 155-166.
  • Forel A. 1905. Miscellanea myrmécologiques II (1905). Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 49: 155-185.
  • Forel A. 1907. Fourmis nouvelles de Kairouan et d'Orient. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 51: 201-208.
  • Forel, A.. "Miscellanea myrmécologiques II (1905)." Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 49 (1905): 155-185.
  • IZIKO South Africa Museum Collection
  • Madl M. 2019. Notes on the ant fauna of Eritrea (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae): type specimens deposited in the Natural History Museum Vienna (Austria) and a preliminary checklist. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 9-18.
  • Santschi F. 1923. Descriptions de nouveaux Formicides éthiopiens et notes diverses. I. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 11: 259-295.
  • Santschi F. 1935. Hymenoptera. I. Formicidae. Mission Scientifique de l'Omo 2: 255-277.
  • Santschi, F. 1907. Fourmis de Tunisie capturées en 1906. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 15: 305-334.
  • Wheeler W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VIII. A synonymic list of the ants of the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 711-1004