The Ants of Africa
Genus Dorylus Subgenus Dorylus
Dorylus (Dorylus) moestus Emery

Dorylus (Dorylus) moestus Emery

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type locality Zaïre (Dorylus (Dorylus) affinis var moestus, Emery, 1895j: 720, male; raised to species, Santschi, 1910g: 741); subspecies claripennis (Santschi, 1919c: 234, male; 1930b: 60, worker) from Zaïre, collected at Lower Kasai, by Vanderyst, morio (Santschi, 1919c: 234, male) from Congo, collected at Mandingu, by Zimmermann, and schereri (Forel, 1911e: 254, male) from Liberia, by Scherer; male only known (see Bolton, 1995) .

Emery's (1895j) description of the male is at {original description}. Reported, as a subspecies of affinis, collector Lemarinel, by Forel (1909b). Forel's (1911) description of schereri is at {original description}. Santschi's (1919c) descriptions of morio and claripennis are at {original description}. Santschi (1910g) is at {original description}.

Also Ivory Coast at Dimbroko (?Le Moult), in Wheeler (1922). Bernard (1952) reported a single male of the type form was collected at N'Zo, Mount Nimba, Guinea.
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