The Ants of Africa
SUBFAMILY DORYLINAE - Subgenus Typhlopone
Genus Dorylus and Key

Subgenus Typhlopone Westwood (1839: 219)

Diagnostic Features - Antennae 11-jointed; subapical tooth of mandible simple; impressed area of pygidium without sharp margins.

Shuckard (1840b: 262) noting that Westwood had not given a generic or specific description of what he called Typhlopone fulvus gave a genus definition (with a short description of D. (T.) fulvus kirbii); this is at {original description}.

One other species, Dorylus (T.) labiatus Shuckard (1840c: 319) is known from the Indian sub-Continent; an illustrated description of the male and workers by Bingham (1903: 2) is on {original description}. Apparently separable by the major worker having a posteriorly narrowed head, with no median longitudinal line or impression; also alitrunk narrower with straighter sides, petiole narrower and also less pubescent (Forel, 1901a: 464). See also the modern review of the South East Asian Dorylus, including labiatus by Stefanie M Berghoff, this can be found at - http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=967765773&dok_var=d1&dok_ext=pdf&filename=967765773.pdf.

Leroux (1979) thought that members of the subgenus (naming fulvus and badius) feed mainly on other Dorylines, especially Dorylus nigricans.

Species known from Africa - Dorylus (Typhlopone) fulvus (Westwood)

Contents Genus Dorylus and Key
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