SUBFAMILY DORYLINAE - Genus Dorylus Subgenus Alaopone
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The Ants of Africa SUBFAMILY DORYLINAE - Genus Dorylus Subgenus Alaopone |
| Genus Dorylus and Key |
Diagnostic Feature - Antennae with 9 segments.
Emery's genus definition (1881a: 274) is at
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The example species is now regarded as a junior synonym of D. (Al.)
orientalis Westwood, type location India.
Named species
Dorylus
(Alaopone) acutus (Santschi) - male only - Zaïre
Dorylus
(Alaopone) aethiopicus (Emery) male & workers - Sudan,
Ethiopia & Tunis
Dorylus
(Alaopone) antinorii (Emery) - worker only - Ethiopia
Dorylus
(Alaopone) atratus (F Smith) - male only transferred here
from Anomma - West Africa & Congo Basin
Dorylus
(Alaopone) atriceps Shuckard - male & worker only - West
Africa & Congo Basin
Dorylus
(Alaopone) attenuatus Shuckard - male & worker only - Zaïre
& South Africa (possibly Gambia)
Dorylus
(Alaopone) brevis (Santschi) - male only - Zaïre
Dorylus
(Alaopone) buyssoni Santschi - male only - Kenya
Dorylus
(Alaopone) conradti Emery - queen & workers only - West
Africa & Congo Basin
Dorylus
(Alaopone) diadema Gerstäcker - male & workers only - southern East Africa
Dorylus
(Alaopone) distinctus Santschi - male only - Guinea
Dorylus
(Alaopone) ductor Santschi - male only - Congo
Dorylus
(Alaopone) katanensis (Stitz) - male only - eastern Congo Basin
Dorylus
(Alaopone) montanus Santschi - male & worker only - montane Tanzania
Santschi's (1939a) review, see 
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which has a key to the males known from Africa, noted that the worker
morph has been described for only aethiopicus (Emery, 1907); attenuatus
strain australis (Santschi, 1919b); conradti (Emery 1895j)
and its variety berlandi (Santschi, 1926b); and, montanus
(Santschi, 1914b). Arnold (1948) added a description of the worker of diadema.
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