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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
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Formicidae
›
Dorylinae
›
Dorylus
›
Dorylus atriceps
Dorylus
atriceps
Shuckard, 1840
valid
Dorylus atriceps
Shuckard, 1840c
: 323 (m.) GAMBIA. Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype male. Primary type locality: Gambia: (no further data). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps
BMNH
or
OXUM
). Primary type specimen:
CASENT0902697
.
Combination in
Dorylus (Shuckardia)
:
Emery, 1895l
: 740.
Combination in
Dorylus (Alaopone)
:
Emery, 1910b
: 15.
Status as species:
Westwood, 1842
: 80;
Smith, 1859c
: 4;
Mayr, 1863a
: 408;
Roger, 1863b
: 41;
Emery, 1877
: 381;
Radoszkowsky, 1881
: 198;
Emery, 1884
: 386;
André, 1885d
: 840;
Emery, 1891c
: 2;
Dalla Torre, 1893
: 10;
André, 1895a
: 5;
Emery, 1895l
: 740;
Forel, 1909b
: 53;
Emery, 1910b
: 15;
Santschi, 1920d
: 362;
Wheeler, 1922
: 51, 748;
Santschi, 1923e
: 276;
Santschi, 1935b
: 265;
Santschi, 1939a
: 153 (in key);
Bolton, 1995b
: 177;
Hita Garcia
et al.
, 2013
: 203.
Senior synonym of
Dorylus ritsemae
:
Emery, 1895l
: 740;
Emery, 1910b
: 15;
Wheeler, 1922
: 748;
Bolton, 1995b
: 177.
Junior synonyms
Dorylus ritsemae
Dalla Torre, 1892
Citations
André, Ern.
1885d.
Supplément aux fourmis.
Pp. 833-854 in:
André, Edm.
1885.
1881-1886. Species des Hyménoptères d'Europe et d'Algérie. Tome Deuxième.
Beaune: Edmond André, 919 + 48 pp.
PDF
André, Ern.
1895a.
Formicides de l'Ogooué (Congo français).
Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 14:1-5.
PDF
Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dalla Torre, K. W.
1893.
Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna).
Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp.
PDF
Emery, C.
1877.
Catalogo delle formiche esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Genova. Parte prima. Formiche provenienti dal Viaggio dei signori Antinori, Beccari e Issel nel Mar Rosso e nel paese dei Bogos. [Combined reference].
Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 9:363-381.
Emery, C.
1884.
Materiali per lo studio della fauna Tunisina raccolti da G. e L. Doria. III. Rassegna delle formiche della Tunisia. Dummy reference.
Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 21[=(2)1]:373-386.
Emery, C.
1891c.
Exploration scientifique de la Tunisie. Zoologie. - Hyménoptères. Révision critique des fourmis de la Tunisie.
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, iii + 21 pp.
PDF
Emery, C.
1895l.
Die Gattung
Dorylus
Fab. und die systematische Eintheilung der Formiciden.
Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 8:685-778.
PDF
Emery, C.
1910b.
Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dorylinae.
Genera Insectorum 102:1-34.
PDF
Forel, A.
1909b.
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.
PDF
Hita Garcia, F.
;
Wiesel, E.
;
Fischer, G.
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 (2):127-222.
PDF
Mayr, G.
1863a.
Formicidarum index synonymicus.
Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460.
PDF
Radoszkowsky, O.
1881.
Hymenoptères d'Angola.
Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes 8(31):197-221.
PDF
Roger, J.
1863b.
Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten.
Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65.
PDF
Santschi, F.
1920d.
Formicides africains et américains nouveaux.
Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 88:361-390.
PDF
Santschi, F.
1923e.
Descriptions de nouveaux Formicides éthiopiens et notes diverses. I.
Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 11:259-295.
PDF
Santschi, F.
1935b.
Hymenoptera. I. Formicidae.
Mission Scientifique de l'Omo 2:255-277.
Santschi, F.
1939a.
Contribution au sous-genre
Alaopone
Emery.
Revue Suisse de Zoologie 46:143-154.
PDF
Shuckard, W. E.
1840c.
Monograph of the Dorylidae, a family of the Hymenoptera Heterogyna. (Concluded from p. 271.).
Annals of Natural History 5:315-328.
PDF
Smith, F.
1859c.
Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VII. Dorylidae and Thynnidae.
London: British Museum, 76 pp.
PDF
Westwood, J. O.
1842.
Monograph of the hymenopterous group, Dorylides.
Pp. 73-80 in:
Westwood, J. O.
1842.
Arcana entomologica; or illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects. Volume 1, No. 5.
London: W. Smith, pp. 65-80, pl. 17-20.
PDF
Wheeler, W. M.
1922.
Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition.
New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
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