Dorylus gerstaeckeri quadratus

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Dorylus gerstaeckeri quadratus Santschi, 1914 junior synonym of current valid taxon Dorylus kohli Wasmann, 1904

Dorylus (Anomma) gerstaeckeri st. quadratus Santschi, 1914a: 430 (s.) TANZANIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype major worker. Primary type locality: Tanzania (“Afrique orientale allemande”): Manou (no collector’s name) (received from Viehmeyer). Primary type depository: NHMB. Primary type specimens: CASENT0911289 (s.), CASENT0911290 (w.). Type notes: Original description specifies 1 major worker, but Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 63, cites 5 syntype workers in NHMB.

Subspecies of Dorylus gerstaeckeri: Wheeler, 1922: 736; Raignier & Boven, 1955: 30; Bolton, 1995b: 180.
Junior synonym of Dorylus kohli: Schöning et al., 2008: 49

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.
Raignier, A.; Boven, J. K. A. 1955. Étude taxonomique, biologique et biométrique des Dorylus du sous-genre Anomma (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge. Nouvelle Série in Quarto. Sciences Zoologiques 2:1-359.
Santschi, F. 1914a ("1913"). Mélanges myrmecologiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:429-437. PDF
Schöning, C.; Gotwald, W. H., Jr.; Kronauer, D. J. C.; Vilhelmsen, L. 2008. Taxonomy of the African army ant Dorylus gribodoi Emery, 1892 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) - new insights from DNA sequence data and morphology. Zootaxa 1749:39-52. 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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