Dorylus (Alaopone) attenuatus Shuckard

Type locality Gambia? (Shuckard, 1840c: 322, male); subspecies acuminatus (Emery, 1899e: 462, male), australis (Santschi, 1919b: 231, worker, as a strain of montanus, placed under attenuatus by Santschi, 1939a: 147) and bondroiti (Santschi, 1912b: 162, male) from South Africa, also latinodis (Forel, 1920: 479, male) from Zaïre; junior synonym umbratipennis (Forel, 1909b: 52, male) from Zaïre; male only known (see Bolton, 1995) .

Shuckard's (1840c) description is at - he noted "I am not sure of the locality of this species, but I believe it is from the Gambia". Arnold (1915) provided a transcript of Shuckard's description, plus acuminata - this is at . Emery (1895j) provided a translation into German of Shuckard (1840c), and added illustrations of the genitalia - this is at , and Emery's (1899e) description of the acuminata male is at . Santschi's (1912b) description of the male of bondroiti is at . Santschi's (1919b) description of the worker of Dorylus attenuatus (as montanus) ssp australis is at . Forel (1909b) noted that the male umbratipennis, a single specimen collected by Tosquinet, from "Nini?" [probably actually Vivi]; differed from the type in having brown wings; in the type they are subhyaline and slightly yellowish.