Dorylus (Typhlopone) juvenculus Shuckard - revived status (here)

Iran list

Type location Morocco ("Sp. 5. Dor. juvenculus, Shuck.", Shuckard, 1840c: 318, male; junior synonym of Dorylus fulvus by Emery 1895j: 723) from Barvary, collector Capt. Lyon - see below
junior synonyms
punicus (Dorylus (Typhlopone) fulvus v. punicus n. var., Santschi, 1926e: 231, illustrated, worker & male; Santschi, 1931d: 401, illustrated, queen) from Tunisia, Kairouan - workers see below
ruficeps (Dorylus (Typhlopone) fulvus West. var. ruficeps n. var., Santschi, 1926e: 232, male; junior synonym of punicus, Menozzi, 1933b: 50; revived from that synonymy as a race of fulvus, Santschi, 1938e: 29; present synonymy added here) from Lebanon, Jounich - see images below.

Shuckard's (1840c) description of the male is at .

Santschi's (1931d) description of the queen, or gyne, male and workers of D. fulvus Westw. stirps juvenculus (Shuck.) variety punicus is on . Wasmann (1904b: 676) listed myrmecophiles found with Dorylus juvenculus Shuck. (Typhlopone oraniensis Luc.).

The photomontage is of the holotype male collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0901949.

The photomontage is of the ruficeps type male collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent09113674. Appears indentical to the juvenculus type.

Oxford University Museum specimens

Dorylus (Typhlopone) juvenculus B Taylor det. Male	Tanzania G C McGavin OUMNH-2005-030	1.viii.1994 Mkomazi Hunters Camp 03°58'S 037°48'E	Tilley Lamp	1
Dorylus (Typhlopone) juvenculus B Taylor det. Male	Israel J Kugler	23.x.1972 Had-Hagaren		1
Dorylus (Typhlopone) juvenculus B Taylor det.	Israel J Wahrmann	2.ii.1952 Jaffa 32.0333333 N 34.75 E		6

Male

Santschi's description of the punicus male has TL ca 30 mm.

The photomontage of a male is a specimen from Israel, Had Hagaren, Tel Aviv, 23.x.1972, collector J Kugler, sent to BT by Armin Ionescu, Tel Aviv University.

The photomontage is of a male from Tanzania, Mkomazi Game Reserve; collector G C McGavin (OUMNH2005-030).

Queen or gyne

Santschi gave the gyne TL as 42 mm, HL (without mandibles) 4.1 mm; reddish yellow, gaster lighter; funiculi, small tarsi and hypopygium red brown; glabrous; mostly smooth and shiny, with some finely shagreened areas.

Armin Ionescu, of Tel Aviv University has kindly sent me photographs of a gyne from Israel, Kefar-Saba, 10.xi.1967, Z. Zuck-Rimon. From those I have compiled the photomontage. The original photos are on

Workers

Santschi (1926e) showed small drawing of the workers (see above) and the heads (right). He described punicus as TL major 11 mm, minors down to 2 mm; uniformly light reddish-yellow, gaster paler, overall paler than the type fulvus; mandibles, antennae, anterior clypeus and frontal carinae brownish-red; major head more elongated than oraniensis with sides more nearly parallel; smoother and more finely punctate than the fulvus type.

For saharensis see D. oraniensis.

The photomontage of the punicus type major worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0901949.

The polymorphism photomontage is of specimens from Israel, Jaffa, 2.ii.1952, collector J Wahrmann (?), sent to BT by Armin Ionescu, Tel Aviv University. Photomontages of the different morphs are on the linked page - Dorylus juvenculus Israel morphs.