Dorylus mayri

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Dorylus mayri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dorylinae
Genus: Dorylus
Species: D. mayri
Binomial name
Dorylus mayri
Santschi, 1912

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Specimen labels

Identification

A member of the Dorylus nigricans-group.

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 3.8° to 3.383333333°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: Cameroun (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

Worker

Images from AntWeb

Dorylus mayri casent0172640 head 1.jpgDorylus mayri casent0172640 profile 1.jpgDorylus mayri casent0172640 dorsal 1.jpgDorylus mayri casent0172640 label 1.jpg
Worker. Specimen code casent0172640. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Phylogeny

Relationships among selected Dorylus species based on Kronauer et al. (2007).

Dorylus

Dorylus laevigatus

Dorylus conradti

Dorylus orientalis

Dorylus fimbriatus laevipodex

Dorylus fulvus

Dorylus spininodis

Dorylus mayri

Dorylus nigricans rubellus

Dorylus nigricans molestus

Dorylus nigricans terrificus

Dorylus wilverthi

Dorylus nigricans burmeisteri

Dorylus nigricans sjostedti

Dorylus nigricans arcens

Dorylus nigricans

Dorylus emeryi

Dorylus gerstaeckeri

Dorylus gribodoi

Dorylus kohli

Dorylus emeryi opacus

Dorylus braunsi

Dorylus affinis

Dorylus helvolus

Nomenclature

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

  • mayri. Dorylus (Anomma) mayri Santschi, 1912b: 159, fig. 13 (w.) CAMEROON.
    • Type-material: 3 syntype workers.
    • Type-locality: Cameroon: (no further data).
    • Type-depositories: MSNG, NHMB.
    • Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 737; Raignier & van Boven, 1955: 86 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 179.
    • Distribution: Cameroon.

Description

References