Dorylus attenuatus

Identification
A member of the Dorylus orientalis-group.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Botswana, Gambia, Namibia.

Nomenclature

 * . Dorylus attenuatus Shuckard, 1840c: 322 (m.) GAMBIA?
 * Type-material: holotype male.
 * Type-locality: Gambia? (no further data).
 * [Note: Shuckard says, “I am not sure of the locality of this species, but I believe it is from the Gambia”.]
 * Type-depository: BMNH.
 * [Misspelled as attenatus by Arnold, 1915: 133.]
 * Combination in D. (Alaopone): Emery, 1895j: 733.
 * Status as species: Westwood, 1842: 80; Smith, F. 1859b: 3; Mayr, 1863: 408; Roger, 1863b: 41; Radoszkowsky, 1876: 140; Dalla Torre, 1893: 10; Emery, 1895j: 733; Mayr, 1907b: 8; Emery, 1910b: 15; Forel, 1910f: 4; Forel, 1913b: 312; Arnold, 1915: 133; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 748; Santschi, 1939a: 152 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 177.
 * Senior synonym of umbratipennis: Santschi, 1939a: 148; Bolton, 1995b: 177.
 * Distribution: Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia?, Namibia, South Africa.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus acuminatus, australis, bondroiti, latinodis.
 * umbratipennis. Dorylus (Alaopone) attenuatus var. umbratipennis Forel, 1909b: 52 (m.) (no state data).
 * Type-material: holotype male.
 * Type-locality: “Nini?”.
 * [Note: type-locality probably Democratic Republic of Congo: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 749.]
 * Type-depository: unknown (“Tosquinet collection”; possibly in MHNG).
 * Subspecies of attenuatus: Emery, 1910b: 15; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 749.
 * Junior synonym of attenuatus: Santschi, 1939a: 148; Bolton, 1995b: 180.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Arnold G. 1915. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14: 1-159.
 * Borowiec L., and S. Salata. 2018. Notes on ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Gambia (Western Africa). Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom Entomology 26: 1-13.
 * Forel A. 1910. Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika ausgeführt in den Jahren 1903-1905 von Dr. Leonhard Schultze. Vierter Band. Systematik und Tiergeographie. D) Formicidae. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 16: 1-30.
 * IZIKO South Africa Museum Collection
 * Radoszkowsky O. 1876. Comte-rendu des hyménoptères recueillis en Égypte et Abyssinie en 1873. Trudy Russkago Entomologicheskago Obshchestva 12: 111-150.
 * Santschi F. 1939. Contribution au sous-genre Alaopone Emery. Revue Suisse de Zoologie. 46: 143-154.
 * 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