• Status as species: Westwood, 1842: 79; Smith, 1859c: 2; Mayr, 1863a: 408; Radoszkowsky, 1876: 140; Mayr, 1893b: 200; André, 1881c: 64; Dalla Torre, 1893: 11.
• Junior synonym of Dorylus fulvus dentifrons: Emery, 1915g: 6.
• Subspecies of Dorylus fulvus: Emery, 1895l: 724; Emery, 1910b: 13; Wheeler, 1922: 745; Santschi, 1931e: 407; Bolton, 1995b: 179.

Obsolete combinations

• Dorylus glabratus

Citations

• André, Ern. 1881c. Catalogue raisonné des Formicides provenant du voyage en Orient de M. Abeille de Perrin et description des espèces nouvelles. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6)1:53-78. 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. 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
• Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1893b. Formiciden von Herrn Dr. Fr. Stuhlmann in Ost-Afrika gesammelt. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 10:194-201. PDF
• Radoszkowsky, O. 1876. Comte-rendu des hyménoptères recueillis en Égypte et Abyssinie en 1873. Trudy Russkago Entomologicheskago Obshchestva 12:111-150. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1931e. La reine du Dorylus fulvus Westw. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 22:401-408. 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.