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Driver Ants and Allies
Dorylus
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. The term siafu is a loanword from Swahili, and is one of numerous similar words from regional Bantu languages used by indigenous peoples to describe various species of these ants. Unlike the New World members of the former subfamily Ecitoninae (now...
8 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Typical Driver Ants
complexDorylus nigricans
Helvolus-group Driver Ants and Allies
complexDorylus helvolus
Dorylus orientalis
complexDorylus orientalis
Dorylus fulvus
complexDorylus fulvus
Dorylus fimbriatus
complexDorylus fimbriatus
Dorylus laevigatus
speciesDorylus laevigatus
Dorylus politus
complexDorylus politus
Dorylus sudanicus
speciesDorylus sudanicus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 135301.