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Dorylus conradti
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
| Genus: | Dorylus |
| Species: | D. conradti |
| Binomial name | |
| Dorylus conradti Emery, 1895
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Identification
A member of the Dorylus orientalis-group
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 3.692196° to -0.317°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Ivory Coast, Kenya, Togo (type locality), Uganda.
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. |
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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
   
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| Worker. Specimen code casent0217464. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA. |
   
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| Syntype of Dorylus conradti. Worker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0903713. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy. |
   
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| Syntype of Dorylus conradti. Worker. Specimen code casent0903714. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy. |
Queen
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| Syntype of Dorylus conradti. Queen (ergatoid). Specimen code casent0903712. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy. |
Phylogeny
Relationships among selected Dorylus species based on Kronauer et al. (2007).
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Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- conradti. Dorylus (Alaopone) conradti Emery, 1895j: 734, pl. 16, figs. 1-4; pl. 17, figs. 7-10 (w.q.) TOGO.
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated), 1 syntype queen.
- Type-locality: Togo: Bismarckburg (L. Conradt).
- Type-depositories: MNHU, MSNG.
- Status as species: Emery, 1901c: 196 (in key); Emery, 1910b: 15; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 51, 749; Santschi, 1939a: 147; Bolton, 1995b: 178; Hita Garcia, et al. 2013: 203.
- Distribution: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Togo.
- Current subspecies: nominal plus berlandi.
Description
References
- Borowiec, M.L. 2019. Convergent evolution of the army ant syndrome and congruence in big-data phylogenetics. Systematic Biology 68, 642–656 (doi:10.1093/sysbio/syy088).
- Emery, C. 1895l. Die Gattung Dorylus Fab. und die systematische Eintheilung der Formiciden. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Geogr. Biol. Tiere 8: 685-778 (page 734, pl. 16, figs. 1-4; pl. 17, figs. 7-10 worker, queen described)
- Kronauer, D. J. C.; Schöning, C.; Vilhelmsen, L. B.; Boomsma, J. J. 2007. A molecular phylogeny of Dorylus army ants provides evidence for multiple evolutionary transitions in foraging niche. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: Article 56 (doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-56).
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Borowiec M. L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608: 1–280.
- Emery C. 1910. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dorylinae. Genera Insectorum 102: 1-34.
- Wheeler W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. II. The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 39-269.