The Ants of Africa
Genus Dorylus Subgenus Dorylus
Dorylus (Dorylus) aegyptiacus Mayr morphs

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{Dorylus aegyptiacus major}Israel major - from Israel, Hod Hasharon, Tel Aviv, 23.x.1972, collector J Kugler, sent to BT by Armin Ionescu, Tel Aviv University. With the shorter head, more convex posterior angles, finer sculpture, etc, which appear to characterise brevinodosus and aegyptiacus/abyssinicus - i.e. the northern forms.

The pygidium seen from above matches the Emery (1877b) illustrations of the "Typhlopone brevinodosa" specimen from Keren (see above for Emery's correction to aegyptiacus.

{Dorylus aegyptiacus worker pygidium}.

{Dorylus aegyptiacus media}Israel media

{Dorylus striatidens}The photomontage is of a worker from Sudan, 10 km south west of Thar Jath, South Sudan Province, collector Awatif Omer, 2006.
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