Dorylus funereus

Identification
A member of the Dorylus nigricans-group.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Ghana, Guinea-Bissau.

Nomenclature

 * . Dorylus (Anomma) nigricans var. funereus Emery, 1895j: 712 (m.) GHANA.
 * Type-material: holotype male.
 * Type-locality: Ghana (no further data).
 * Type-depository: MSNG.
 * Subspecies of nigricans: Forel, 1909b: 70; Forel, 1913b: 311; Forel, 1913e: 667; Forel, 1913h: 348.
 * Status as species: Emery, 1910b: 11; Forel, 1916: 402; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 44, 736; Wheeler, W.M. 1925b: 1; Santschi, 1935a: 256; Santschi, 1937b: 96; Bernard, 1953b: 218; Bolton, 1995b: 178.
 * Distribution: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Guinea.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus acherontus, pardus, stygis, zumpti.

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.
 * Emery C. 1910. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dorylinae. Genera Insectorum 102: 1-34.
 * Forel A. 1909. Fourmis du Musée de Bruxelles. Fourmis de Benguela récoltées par M. Creighton Wellman, et fourmis du Congo récoltées par MM. Luja, Kohl et Laurent. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 53: 51-73.
 * Forel A. 1913. Formicides du Congo Belge récoltés par MM. Bequaert, Luja, etc. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels). 2: 306-351.
 * 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.
 * 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
 * Wheeler W. M. 1925. Zoological results of the Swedish Expedition to Central Africa 1921. Insecta. 10. Formicidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 17A(25): 1-3.