Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Extant: 11 valid subspecies
Typhlopone fulva Westwood, 1839a PDF: 218 (in text), fig. 86.17-20 (w.). Primary type information: Type-material: 3 syntype workers. Type-locality: none given, “found dead in sugar” (
C.C. Babington). Type-depository: OXUM. Type notes: Number of specimens is given by
Westwood, 1840b PDF: 81.
AntCat AntWiki HOL Taxonomic history
Status as species:
Westwood, 1840b PDF: 87 (redescription);
Smith, 1858a PDF: 110;
Roger, 1861a PDF: 45;
Roger, 1863b PDF: 20;
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 457;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 10;
Emery, 1895l PDF: 723;
Emery, 1897f PDF: 595;
Emery, 1899a PDF: 499;
Emery, 1901l PDF: 196 (in key);
Forel, 1904c PDF: 369;
Forel, 1904d PDF: 5;
Mayr, 1907a PDF: 387;
Mayr, 1907b PDF: 8;
Emery, 1910b PDF: 13;
Forel, 1910a PDF: 6;
Stitz, 1910: 128;
Forel, 1910e PDF: 4;
Karavaiev, 1912a PDF: 2;
Forel, 1913d PDF: 427;
Santschi, 1914d PDF: 333;
Arnold, 1915: 125;
Emery, 1915e PDF: 6;
Stitz, 1917 PDF: 335;
Bondroit, 1918 PDF: 15;
Donisthorpe, 1918c PDF: 166;
Emery, 1919c PDF: 102;
Crawley, 1920a PDF: 163;
Wheeler, 1922: 742;
Müller, 1923b PDF: 30;
Santschi, 1926e PDF: 235;
Kutter, 1928: 66; Crawley, in
Santschi, 1928d PDF: 55 (redescription);
Santschi, 1931e PDF: 407;
Finzi, 1936 PDF: 156;
Finzi, 1940 PDF: 155;
Weber, 1952c PDF: 6;
Ceballos, 1956: 295;
Cagniant, 1964 PDF: 86;
Cagniant, 1968a PDF: 142;
Cagniant, 1970a PDF: 413;
Collingwood, 1985 PDF: 233;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a PDF: 52;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 264;
Kugler, 1988 PDF: 256;
Bolton, 1995b: 178;
Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 PDF: 307;
Espadaler, 1997g PDF: 27;
Cagniant, 2006 PDF: 195;
Petrov, 2006 PDF: 82 (in key);
Kiran & Karaman, 2012 PDF: 5;
Hita Garcia et al., 2013 PDF: 203;
Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 71 (see note in bibliography);
Bharti et al., 2016 PDF: 22;
Rasheed et al., 2019 10.13102/sociobiology.v66i3.4330 PDF: 428.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Africa: Algeria,
Cameroon,
Central African Republic,
Gabon,
Gambia,
Guinea,
Ivory Coast,
Kenya,
Morocco,
Mozambique,
Namibia,
Senegal,
Sierra Leone,
South Africa,
Tanzania,
Zimbabwe Asia: India,
Oman,
Pakistan,
Saudi Arabia,
Turkey Europe: Balearic Islands,
Italy,
Slovenia Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Afrotropical,
Indomalaya,
Palearctic
Distribution Notes:
Reference for Kenya if not type: Santschi 1914b
Notes:
Caste of types: (w)
Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)
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Dorylus fulvus |
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Forel, A., 1904, Note sur les fourmis du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences à St. Pétersbourg., Yezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk 8, pp. 368-388: 2, (download) |
2 |
3994
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Dorylus fulvus |
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Forel, A., 1910, Glanures myrmecologiques., Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 54, pp. 6-32: 1, (download) |
1 |
4022
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Dorylus fulvus |
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Santschi, F., 1928, Descriptions de nouvelles fourmis éthiopiennes (quatrième note)., Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 16, pp. 54-69: 54-69 |
54-69 |
3628
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Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 5 times found in rainforest, 1 times found in littoral rainforest, 2 times found in secondary forest habitat, 1 times found in rainforest edge.
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 5 times sifted litter (leaf mold, rotten wood), 2 times colony in office store, nighttime, 2 times ground forager(s), 1 times Mr. Raddon's many specimens in casks of sugar from Bengal, dead., 1 times Grotta.
Collected most commonly using these methods: 5 times MW 50 sample transect, 5m, 2 times hand collected.
Elevations: collected from 10 - 1650 meters, 588 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1905-07-01 00:00:00.0 and 2014-07-18 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: Holotype of Dorylus fulvus: casent0901953; Holotype of Typhlopone shuckardi: casent0901954; type of Typhlopone clausii: focol0349, focol0350-1, focol0350-2; type of Typhlopone dahlbomii: casent0901955
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