The Ants of Africa
Genus Dorylus Subgenus Dorylus
Dorylus (Dorylus) politus Emery
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Dorylus (Dorylus) politus Emery

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Cameroun (Emery, 1901c: 194, illustrated, worker) collected at Johann-Albrechtshöhe, by Conradt; worker only known (see Bolton, 1995) .

Emery's (1901c) description is at {original description} .

Wheeler (1922) also has it from Zaïre - Kunungu, 8.iv.1921, by H Schouteden (Santschi, 1933b).

{Dorylus braunsi}The photomontage is of a media (?) specimen from the Central African Republic, Dzanga-Sangha National Park; site DN; 02°48’20.5" N 16°06’14.0" E 350m; Camp 1; U.V : 18h30-8h sur bute en forêt; 25.01.2005; collected by Philippe Annoyer.

Other images can be seen in the folder at - {original description}

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