Dorylus attenuatus

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Dorylus attenuatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dorylinae
Genus: Dorylus
Species: D. attenuatus
Binomial name
Dorylus attenuatus
Shuckard, 1840

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Subspecies
Synonyms

Identification

A member of the Dorylus orientalis-group.

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -9.58333° to -17.76667°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: Botswana, Gambia (type locality), Namibia.

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

Images from AntWeb

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Type of Dorylus attenuatusMale (alate). Specimen code casent0901952. Photographer Ryan Perry, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by OUM, Oxford, UK.

Nomenclature

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

  • attenuatus. Dorylus attenuatus Shuckard, 1840c: 322 (m.) GAMBIA?
    • Type-material: holotype male.
    • Type-locality: Gambia? (no further data).
    • [Note: Shuckard says, “I am not sure of the locality of this species, but I believe it is from the Gambia”.]
    • Type-depository: BMNH.
    • [Misspelled as attenatus by Arnold, 1915: 133.]
    • Combination in D. (Alaopone): Emery, 1895j: 733.
    • Status as species: Westwood, 1842: 80; Smith, F. 1859b: 3; Mayr, 1863: 408; Roger, 1863b: 41; Radoszkowsky, 1876: 140; Dalla Torre, 1893: 10; Emery, 1895j: 733; Mayr, 1907b: 8; Emery, 1910b: 15; Forel, 1910f: 4; Forel, 1913b: 312; Arnold, 1915: 133; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 748; Santschi, 1939a: 152 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 177.
    • Senior synonym of umbratipennis: Santschi, 1939a: 148; Bolton, 1995b: 177.
    • Distribution: Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia?, Namibia, South Africa.
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus acuminatus, australis, bondroiti, latinodis.
  • umbratipennis. Dorylus (Alaopone) attenuatus var. umbratipennis Forel, 1909b: 52 (m.) (no state data).
    • Type-material: holotype male.
    • Type-locality: “Nini?”.
    • [Note: type-locality probably Democratic Republic of Congo: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 749.]
    • Type-depository: unknown (“Tosquinet collection”; possibly in MHNG).
    • Subspecies of attenuatus: Emery, 1910b: 15; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 749.
    • Junior synonym of attenuatus: Santschi, 1939a: 148; Bolton, 1995b: 180.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Arnold G. 1915. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14: 1-159.
  • Borowiec L., and S. Salata. 2018. Notes on ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Gambia (Western Africa). Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom Entomology 26: 1-13.
  • Forel A. 1910. Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika ausgeführt in den Jahren 1903-1905 von Dr. Leonhard Schultze. Vierter Band. Systematik und Tiergeographie. D) Formicidae. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 16: 1-30.
  • IZIKO South Africa Museum Collection
  • Radoszkowsky O. 1876. Comte-rendu des hyménoptères recueillis en Égypte et Abyssinie en 1873. Trudy Russkago Entomologicheskago Obshchestva 12: 111-150.
  • Santschi F. 1939. Contribution au sous-genre Alaopone Emery. Revue Suisse de Zoologie. 46: 143-154.
  • Wheeler W. M. 1922. 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. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 711-1004