Dorylus spininodis

Identification
A member of the Dorylus politus-group.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Cameroun, Guinea, Rwanda.

Nomenclature

 * . Dorylus (Dorylus) spininodis Emery, 1901c: 194, pl. 1, figs. 18-20 (w.) CAMEROON.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “a few”).
 * Type-locality: Cameroon: (no further data) (L. Conradt).
 * Type-depository: MSNG.
 * Status as species: Emery, 1910b: 10; Santschi, 1910c: 352; Santschi, 1910g: 747; Santschi, 1914b: 60; Santschi, 1914d: 332; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 734; van Boven & Lévieux, 1970: 353; Bolton, 1995b: 180.
 * Distribution: Cameroon, Congo, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Uganda.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus longiceps.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Boven J. K. A. van, and J. Levieux. 1970. Les Dorylinae de la savane de Lamto (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Ann. Univ. Abidjan Sér. E (Écol.) 1(2): 351-358.
 * Emery C. 1910. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dorylinae. Genera Insectorum 102: 1-34.
 * Medler J. T. 1980: Insects of Nigeria - Check list and bibliography. Mem. Amer. Ent. Inst. 30: i-vii, 1-919.
 * Santschi F. 1910. Formicides nouveaux ou peu connus du Congo français. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 78: 349-400.
 * Santschi F. 1914. Formicides de l'Afrique occidentale et australe du voyage de Mr. le Professeur F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 8: 309-385.
 * 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