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Dorylus, also known as driver ants, safari ants, or siafu, is a large genus of army ants found primarily in central and east Africa, although the range also extends to southern Africa and tropical Asia.
African Dorylus raid. The name army ant (or legionary ant or marabunta [1]) is applied to over 200 ant species in different lineages. Because of their aggressive predatory foraging groups, known as "raids", a huge number of ants forage simultaneously over a limited area.
Dorylus laevigatus is a member of the army ant genus Dorylus, or Old World army ants. More specifically known as "driver ants", the genus Dorylus is abundant throughout Africa and stretches into tropical Asia , where D. laevigatus is primarily found.
This article incorporates text from a scholarly publication published under a copyright license that allows anyone to reuse, revise, remix and redistribute the materials in any form for any purpose: Schöning, Caspar; Gottwald, William H.; Kronauer, Daniel J.C.; Vilhelmsen, Lars (2008), "Taxonomy of the African army ant Dorylus gribodoi Emery ...
Males or drones of all dorylus species are so called "sausage flies" and are among the largest ant morphs. Some Dorylus molestus queen are the largest known extant ants. . Queens typically grow to 5.2 centimetres (2.0 in) but can reach 8 centimetres (3.1
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Dorylus orientalis is an Asian species of army ants in the genus Dorylus. It can be found in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, China, and Borneo. [1] [2] Dorylus orientalis have two morphologically distinct series of workers that has not been known previously among army ants. [3]
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