Dorylus brevipennis marshalli
Dorylus brevipennis marshalli | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
Genus: | Dorylus |
Species: | D. brevipennis |
Subspecies: | D. brevipennis marshalli |
Trinomial name | |
Dorylus brevipennis marshalli Emery, 1901 |
Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 2.4167° to -33.304216°.
North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Zimbabwe (type locality), Zimbabwe (type locality).
Distribution based on AntMaps
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. |
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. |
Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- marshalli. Dorylus brevipennis var. marshalli Emery, 1901c: 193, pl. 1, fig. 13 (w.m.) ZIMBABWE.
- Type-material: syntype workers, syntype males (numbers not stated).
- Type-locality: Zimbabwe (“Mashonaland”): Salisbury (= Harare) (H. Brauns).
- Type-depository: MSNG.
- [Misspelled as marschalli by Forel, 1916: 402.]
- Subspecies of brevipennis: Emery, 1910b: 10; Santschi, 1910g: 741; Arnold, 1915: 122; Forel, 1916: 402; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 43, 730; Santschi, 1933b: 97; Bolton, 1995b: 179.
- Distribution: Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.
Description
References
- Emery, C. 1901l. Studi sul polimorfismo e la metamorfosi nel genere Dorylus. Mem. R. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna (5)9:183-201 (page 193, pl. 1, fig. 13 worker, male described)