Dorylus (Dorylus) aegyptiacus Mayr - revived
status
Type location Egypt (Dorylus
aegyptiacus nov. sp., Mayr, 1865: 76, male; Emery, 1915g: 3,
worker, no description but reported as collected with males in Eritrea;
as variety of affinis, Emery 1895j: 704) male, Natt, 1858 - see
below.
junior synonyms
abyssinicus (Dorylus
brevinodosus Mayr var. abyssinicus
n. var., Emery, 1895j:
717, worker) from Ethiopia. Keren, Beccari - see below
hirsutus (Dorylus affinis
Shuck. st. aegyptiaca Mayr var. hirsuta n, var.,
Santschi, 1917c: 20, male) from Ethiopia, Reichensperger - see
http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0911326
.
Revived from status of variety of Dorylus affinis,
used by various authors since Emery (1892c: lv).
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Mayr's (1865) description of the male aegyptiacus
is at  . Emery's (1877b: 318)
description of "brevinodosus" workers is at  . Emery (1895j: 717) gave a further
description, with reattribution of the specimens reported as brevinodosus
in 1877, this is at  .
Santschi's (1917c)
description of "hirsutus" is at  .
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 The photomontage is of
a male from Sudan, Dinder
(Aldinder) National Park Centre 11°21' N and 35°02' E along
Sudan-Ethiopian Boundary; collector Awatif Omer (S 2-13).
From the Santschi (1917c) key to "Dorylus affinis"
males, one can extrapolate more on the male as - TL 20-21 mm, HW <
4.0; upper border of head more or less convex (oblique from the ocelli
to the compound eyes); from above the line from the neck to the
compound eyes is weakly concave; second segment of funiculus not longer
than the first; reddish-yellow; gaster without erect pilosity on
segments 3,4 & 5; pubescence thinner than affinis.
The specimen shown here clearly matches those criteria
and the type shown above.
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The
photomontage is of the type male collated
from 
The
photomontage is of a syntype worker of 