Dorylus titan vinalli

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Dorylus titan vinalli Santschi, 1933 valid

Dorylus (Anomma) titan var. vinalli Santschi, 1933b: 97 (w.) Date of publication 30.iii.1933. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 4 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo (“Congo belge”): Haut Congo, Basankusu, Bongandanga, 9.i.1932 (G. Vinall) (received from Donisthorpe). Primary type depository: NHMB (perhaps also BMNH). Primary type specimen: CASENT0911322. Type notes: 1) 4 workers cited in original description. 2) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 62, cites 12 worker syntypes in NHMB; these probably include specimens from a second sending by Vinall, 24.vii.1932, reported by Poulton, 1933: 58.

[Also described as new by Santschi, in Poulton, 1933: 58 (footnote) (date of publication 21.iv.1933).]
Subspecies of Dorylus titan: Raignier & Boven, 1955: 33; Bolton, 1995b: 180.

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.
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Poulton, E. B. 1933. The gentle Driver ant "Baongo", discovered by Miss Vinall at Bongandanga, Belgian Congo. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 7:58. PDF
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. 1933b. Contribution à l'étude des fourmis de l'Afrique tropicale. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 73:95-108. PDF

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