Dorylus brevipennis

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, United Republic of Tanzania, Zimbabwe.

Nomenclature

 * . Dorylus (Dorylus) brevipennis Emery, 1895j: 721, figs. K, L (m.) TANZANIA.
 * Type-material: syntype males (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: Tanzania: Tabora, Ornyaniembe (R. Oberthür).
 * [Note: Emery incorrectly places Tabora in “Westafrika”.]
 * Type-depository: MSNG.
 * [Misspelled as brenipennis by Forel, 1916: 402; misspelled as brevispinus by Santschi, 1933b: 97.]
 * Emery, 1901c: 192 (w.); van Boven, 1975: 193 (q.).
 * Status as species: Emery, 1901c: 192; Mayr, 1907a: 387; Emery, 1910b: 10; Santschi, 1910g: 741; Santschi, 1914b: 61; Santschi, 1914e: 14; Arnold, 1915: 122; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 43, 730; Santschi, 1935b: 263; Bernard, 1953b: 217; van Boven & Lévieux, 1970: 353; van Boven, 1975: 193; Bolton, 1995b: 178; Hita Garcia, et al. 2013: 203.
 * Distribution: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus marshalli, zimmermanni.

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.
 * Borowiec M. L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608: 1–280.
 * 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.
 * Boven J. K. A. van. 1975. Deux nouvelles reines du genre Dorylus Fabricius (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Ann. Zool. (Warsaw) 33: 189-199.
 * Hita Garcia F., E. Wiesel, G. Fischer. 2013. The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History 101: 127-222.
 * IZIKO South Africa Museum Collection
 * Santschi F. 1935. Hymenoptera. I. Formicidae. Mission Scientifique de l'Omo 2: 255-277.
 * Weber N. A. 1943. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93: 263-389.