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Extant: 3 valid subspecies
Taxonomic history
Scientific Name | Status | Publication | Pages | ModsID | GoogleMaps |
Dorylus moestus | Santschi, F., 1923, Descriptions de nouveaux formicides Ethiopiens et notes diverses. - I., Revue de Zoologie Africaine 11, pp. 259-295: 270, (download) | 270 | 3603 | ||
Dorylus moestus | Forel, A., 1909, Fourmis du Musée de Bruxelles. Fourmis de Benguela récoltées par M. Creighton Wellman, et fourmis du Congo récoltées par MM. Luja, Kohl et Laurent., Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 53, pp. 51-73: 71, (download) | 71 | 4018 | ||
Dorylus moestus | Wheeler, W. M., 1922, The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45, pp. 39-269: 43, (download) | 43 | 20597 |
Type specimens: syntype of Dorylus affinis moestus: casent0903705
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