Genus Dorylus Subgenus Dorylus
Dorylus (Dorylus) aegyptiacus Mayr morphs
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The Ants of Africa Genus Dorylus Subgenus Dorylus Dorylus (Dorylus) aegyptiacus Mayr morphs |
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The pygidium seen from above matches the Emery (1877b) illustrations of the "Typhlopone brevinodosa" specimen from Keren (see species page for Emery's correction to aegyptiacus).
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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. 
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The photomontage is of a
worker from Sudan, 10 km south west
of Thar Jath, South Sudan Province, collector Awatif Omer, 2006.