Dorylus nigricans arcens

Dorylus nigricans arcens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dorylinae
Genus:	Dorylus
Species:	D. nigricans
Subspecies:	D. nigricans arcens
Trinomial name
Dorylus nigricans arcens (Westwood, 1847)
Synonyms
Anomma pubescens Roger, 1861

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 6.206111° to 0.34583°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia (type locality), Sierra Leone.

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.

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.

• arcens. Anomma arcens Westwood, 1847b: 17, pl. 1, fig. 3 (w.) (no state data).
  • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “sent in great numbers”).
  • Type-locality: none given (“Habitat in Africa occidentali tropicali”) (D. Savage).
  • [Note: type-locality Liberia, after Savage, 1849: 196.]
  • Type-depository: OXUM.
  • Combination in Dorylus (Anomma): Emery, 1895j: 710.
  • As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Santschi, 1910c: 352.
  • Status as species: Savage, 1849: 196 (redescription); Smith, F. 1858b: 114; Roger, 1861a: 46; Roger, 1863b: 20; Mayr, 1863: 394; Dalla Torre, 1893: 8.
  • Subspecies of burmeisteri: Emery, 1892d: 554; Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893: 9 (footnote).
  • Subspecies of nigricans: Emery, 1892c: liv; Emery, 1895j: 710; Emery, 1910b: 12; Santschi, 1912b: 157 (in key), 160; Santschi, 1914d: 332; Stitz, 1916: 373; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 46, 738; Santschi, 1930a: 56 (in list); Menozzi, 1942: 165; Eidmann, 1944: 425; Bernard, 1953b: 218; Bolton, 1995b: 177.
  • Senior synonym of pubescens: Emery, 1895j: 710; Emery, 1910b: 12; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 738; Bolton, 1995b: 177.
  • Distribution: Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, .
• pubescens. Anomma pubescens Roger, 1861a: 47 (w.) LIBERIA.
  • Type-material: holotype(?) worker.
  • [Note: no indication of number of specimens is given.]
  • Type-locality: Liberia: (no further data) (Guérin-Méneville).
  • Type-depository: MNHU? (perhaps MNHN).
  • Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 21; Mayr, 1863: 395.
  • Junior synonym of rubellus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 9.
  • Junior synonym of arcens: Emery, 1895j: 710; Emery, 1910b: 12; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 738; Bolton, 1995b: 180.

=Taxonomic Notes

Kronauer et al. (2007) treat this taxon as a full species rather than a subspecies.

References

• Emery, C. 1892f [1891]. Voyage de M. Ch. Alluaud dans le territoire d'Assinie (Afrique occidentale) en juillet et août 1886. Formicides. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 60: 553-574 (page 554, Subspecies of burmeisteri)
• Emery, C. 1895l. Die Gattung Dorylus Fab. und die systematische Eintheilung der Formiciden. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Geogr. Biol. Tiere 8: 685-778 (page 710, Combination in Dorylus (Anomma))
• Emery, C. 1895l. Die Gattung Dorylus Fab. und die systematische Eintheilung der Formiciden. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Geogr. Biol. Tiere 8: 685-778 (page 710, Subspecies of nigricans)
• Emery, C. 1895l. Die Gattung Dorylus Fab. und die systematische Eintheilung der Formiciden. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Geogr. Biol. Tiere 8: 685-778 (page 710, Senior synonym of pubescens)
• 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).
• Westwood, J. O. 1847b. Description of the "Driver" ants, described in the preceding article. Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 5: 16-18 (page 16, pl. 1, fig. 3 worker described)
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922j. 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. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 45: 711-1004 (page 738, Subspecies of nigricans)