Dorylus mediatus

This species has been transferred to the family Mutillidae.

Nomenclature

 * . Dorylus mediatus Fabricius, 1804: 428 (m.) (no state data).
 * Type-material: holotype(?) male.
 * [Note: no indication of number of specimens is given.]
 * Type-locality: “America meridionali”.
 * Type-depository: ZMUC.
 * Combination in Labidus: Leach, 1815: 147; Latreille, 1817b: 556; Latreille, 1817f: 141; Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 230 (footnote).
 * [Note: Shuckard, 1840b: 262, says “that it (mediatus) cannot belong to either of these genera” (Dorylus or Labidus). Westwood, 1842: 78, says that the holotype of mediatus was a male Mutilla, having been examined by Dr Erichson in the Royal Museum of Copenhagen.]
 * Status as species: Leach, 1815: 147; Latreille, 1817b: 556; Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 230 (footnote), Shuckard, 1840b: 261; Westwood, 1842: 78.
 * Excluded from Formicidae; transferred to family Mutillidae: Westwood, 1842: 78.
 * [Note: mediatus was subsequently incorrectly retained under Dorylus by Roger, 1863b: 41, and Mayr, 1863: 408.]