Dorylus nigricans arcens

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone.

Nomenclature

 * . 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.