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Dorylus moestus
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
| Genus: | Dorylus |
| Species: | D. moestus |
| Binomial name | |
| Dorylus moestus Emery, 1895
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Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 0.516667° to 0.516667°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Democratic Republic of Congo (type locality), Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia.
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
Images from AntWeb
 
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| Syntype of Dorylus affinis moestus. Male (alate). Specimen code casent0903705. 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.
- moestus. Dorylus (Dorylus) affinis var. moestus Emery, 1895j: 720 (m.) CONGO.
- Type-material: 2 syntype males.
- Type-locality: Congo (no further data) (Staudinger & Bang-Haas).
- Type-depository: MSNG.
- Subspecies of affinis: Forel, 1909b: 53.
- Status as species: Forel, 1909b: 71; Emery, 1910b: 10; Santschi, 1910g: 741; Emery, 1910b: 10; Forel, 1913h: 348; Stitz, 1916: 374; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 43, 734; Santschi, 1923e: 270; Bernard, 1953b: 217; Bolton, 1995b: 179.
- Distribution: Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea.
- Current subspecies: nominal plus claripennis, morio, schereri.
Description
References
- Cantone S. 2017. Winged Ants, The Male, Dichotomous key to genera of winged male ants in the World, Behavioral ecology of mating flight (self-published).
- Emery, C. 1895l. Die Gattung Dorylus Fab. und die systematische Eintheilung der Formiciden. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Geogr. Biol. Tiere 8: 685-778 (page 720, male described)
- Emery, C. 1910b. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dorylinae. Genera Insectorum 102: 1-34 (page 10, Raised to species)
- Forel, A. 1909b. Fourmis du Musée de Bruxelles. Fourmis de Benguela récoltées par M. Creighton Wellman, et fourmis du Congo récoltées par MM. Luja, Kohl et Laurent. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 53: 51-73 (page 71, Raised to species)
- Santschi, F. 1910g. Nouveaux dorylines africains. Rev. Suisse Zool. 18: 737-759 (page 741, Raised to species)
- Stitz, H. 1916. Formiciden. Ergeb. Zweiten Dtsch. Zent.-Afr. Exped. 1: 369-405 (page 374, Raised to species)
- Trible, W., Kronauer, D.J.C. 2021. Hourglass model for developmental evolution of ant castes. Trends in Ecology, Evolution 36, 100–103 (doi:10.1016/j.tree.2020.11.010).
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Bernard F. 1953. La réserve naturelle intégrale du Mt Nimba. XI. Hyménoptères Formicidae. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 19: 165-270.
- 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.
- Forel A. 1913. Quelques fourmis du Musée du Congo Belge (1). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57: 347-359.
- 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.