Dorylus Fabricius 1793 (driver ant)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Synonyms: Anomma Shuckard 1840, Dissimulodorylus Sosiak et al. 2022

Full reference: J. C. Fabricius. 1793. Entomologia Systematica Emendata et Aucta. Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species Adjectis Synonimis, Locis, Observationibus, Descriptionibus, Tomus II 1-519

Parent taxon: Dorylinae according to C. E. Sosiak et al. 2022

See also Borowiec 2016, DuBois 1998 and Sosiak et al. 2023

Sister taxa: Acanthostichini, Acanthostichus, Aenictus, Cerapachyini, Curticorna, Cylindromyrmecini, Cylindromyrmex, Lioponera, Neivamyrmex, Parasyscia, Procerapachys, Yunodorylus, Eoaenictites

Subtaxa: Dissimulodorylus perseus Dorylus molestus

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Tanzania (1 collection)

• Pliocene to Holocene of Tanzania (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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