Type locality Zaïre (Dorylus gaudens n. sp., Santschi, 1919c: 244) collected at Boga, by A. Pilette; male only (see Bolton, 1995) .
Santschi's (1919c) description is at .
The photomontage of the type male is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=rmcaent0000177.
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