Dorylus (Dorylus) moestus Emery

Type locality Zaïre (Dorylus (Dorylus) affinis var moestus, Emery, 1895j: 720, male; raised to species but erroneously described by Santschi, 1910g: 741); subspecies claripennis (Santschi, 1919c: 234, male; 1930b: 60, worker) from Zaïre (Santschi, 1919c: 234, male) from Congo, collected at Lower Kasai, by Vanderyst; and, schereri (Forel, 1911e: 254, male) from Liberia, by Scherer; male only known (see Bolton, 1995) .

With the availability of photographs of a cotype and a fresh specimen, I have removed Dorylus (D.) morio to new status as a full species.

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

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.

The photomontage is of a specimen from the Central African Republic, 17.x.2008; 18h-2h; Camp 1; 03°03'58.3" N 16°08'59.6" E 528 m; Sur plate-forme à 54 m du sol dans un Ayous (Triplochiton scleroxylon, Sterculiaceae) à 50 m du camp; collector Philippe Annoyer. Other images, including a second male, can be seen in the folder at - .