Dorylus (Dorylus) striatidens Santschi
  Type location Senegal
(Dorylus striatidens n. sp.,
Santschi, 1910g: 745, illustrated, worker) collected at Casamance, by
Claveau
worker only known (see Bolton, 1995).  .
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 Santschi's (1910g)
description is at  .
As Santschi suspected, this appears to embody two
species, with the larger Dakar form being separated from the true
Casamance form. The latter appears to be matched by the specimens I
drew from CRIN, Nigeria, and the Cameroun and Central African Republic
workers (bottom). What Santschi denoted as a media would appear to be
the major worker of the true striatidens.
With fresh specimens from Senegal, I believe the Dakar
form specimens were examples of Dorylus aegyptiacus, i.e. a
savannah or desert species.
D. striatidens
appears to be a woodland or forest species.
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Nigeria specimen (as Dorylus (Dorylus)
species A, Taylor, 1980b: 17). WORKER. TL 5.57-2.83 mm. At least four
morphs; largest HL 1.49, HW 1.37, SL 0.59, PW 0.78
Colour yellow-brown, apices darker. Sculpturation of scattered small
hair-pits on dorsal surfaces; lateral alitrunk very finely
reticulostriate, lateral petiole finely reticulate. Erect hairs sparse,
on clypeal margin and posterior margins of gastral segments; relatively
abundant pilosity. Head with slightly convex sides, widest at
midlength. Mandibles with three moderate, blunt teeth. Clypeal margin
slightly produced medially, frontal carinae highly raised with curious
posterior processes. Promesonotum slightly convex. Subpetiolar process
flattened with triangular forward pointing apex.
I collected it from leaf litter, dead wood on ground, and a possible
nest on a cocoa tree crevice at the Cocoa Research Institute of
Nigeria, Idi Ayunre.
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 The photomontage
is
of a type Casamance major worker collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0911344.
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 The photomontage
is
of a type minor worker of collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0911345.
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Oxford University Museum
specimens
Dorylus (Dorylus) striatidens
B Taylor det.
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Central African
Republic
P Annoyer
PO
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30.xi.2010
Dzanga-Sangha
2°28'49.5"N
16°12'55.9"E
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392 m; jour, à vue,
camp de base lac 1
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Dorylus (Dorylus) striatidens
B Taylor det.
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Cameroon
Francis Feugang
13B1
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13.x.2009
Yaoundé
03°52' N
11°31" E
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sur le cadavre de
rat, capture par le fillet
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1
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 The photomontage is of a major worker from Central
African Republic, Dzanga-Sangha National Park; collector Philippe
Annoyer (CAR PO).
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 The photomontage is of a
media worker from Cameroun, Yaoundé; collector Francis Feugang
(13B1).
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