Dorylus affinis exilis

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Dorylus affinis exilis Santschi, 1914 valid

Dorylus affinis var. exilis Santschi, 1914b: 59 (m.) TANZANIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype males. Primary type localities: Tanzania (“Afrique orientale allemande”): Kilimanjaro, Kibocho (Ch. Alluaud) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 729; no lectotype designated), Kenya (“Afrique orientale anglaise”): Nairobi (Ch. Alluaud). Primary type depositories: MNHN, NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0911324. Type notes: Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 61, cites 1 male syntype in NHMB (“only genital apparatus and hypopygium”).

[First available use of Dorylus affinis loewyi exilis Santschi, 1910g; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Santschi, 1935a: 254; Santschi, 1935b: 264.
Subspecies of Dorylus affinis: Santschi, 1917c: 18 (in key); Wheeler, 1922: 729; Santschi, 1939b: 237; Bolton, 1995b: 178; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 203.

Infrasubspecies

D. a. e. badior Santschi, 1939

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1977e. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel (2. Teil). Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)27:61-102. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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
Santschi, F. 1914b. Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale, 1911-1912. Résultats scientifiques. Insectes Hyménoptères. II. Formicidae. Paris: Libr. A. Schulz, pp. 41-148. PDF
Santschi, F. 1917c. Note sur Dorylus affinis Shuckard mâle et ses variétés. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 8:18-21. PDF
Santschi, F. 1935a. Fourmis du Musée du Congo Belge. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 27:254-285. PDF
Santschi, F. 1935b. Hymenoptera. I. Formicidae. Mission Scientifique de l'Omo 2:255-277.
Santschi, F. 1939b. Fourmis de Rhodesia et du Congo. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 79:237-246. 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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