Extant: 8 valid subspecies
Dorylus nigricans Illiger, 1802 PDF: 188 (m.) SIERRA LEONE. Afrotropic. AntCat AntWiki HOLTaxonomic history
Mayr, 1896 PDF: 225 (w.); Forel, 1912k PDF: 177 (q.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1984a PDF: 268 (l.).Combination in Dorylus (Anomma): Emery, 1895l PDF: 710.Combination in Anomma: Menozzi, 1942a PDF: 165.Status as species: Fabricius, 1804 PDF: 427; Latreille, 1809 PDF: 124; Latreille, 1817b: 556; Shuckard, 1840b PDF: 271; Westwood, 1842 PDF: 79; Guérin-Méneville, 1849: 353; Smith, F. 1859b: 2; Mayr, 1863a PDF: 408; Roger, 1863b PDF: 41; Gerstäcker, 1871: 355; Ritsema, 1874 PDF: 182; Emery, 1892e: liv; Emery, 1892f PDF: 555; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 12; André, 1895a PDF: 5; Emery, 1895l PDF: 710; Mayr, 1896 PDF: 225; Emery, 1901l PDF: 196 (in key); Forel, 1901m PDF: 47; Mayr, 1904b PDF: 1; Forel, 1907h PDF: 15; Mayr, 1907b PDF: 7; Forel, 1909b PDF: 51; Santschi, 1910c PDF: 352; Emery, 1910b PDF: 12; Stitz, 1910: 128; Forel, 1910c PDF: 248; Forel, 1911f PDF: 362; Forel, 1911h PDF: 275; Santschi, 1912b PDF: 156 (in key); Forel, 1912k PDF: 177; Forel, 1913b PDF: 311; Forel, 1913i PDF: 348; Santschi, 1914b PDF: 62; Santschi, 1914d PDF: 332; Forel, 1914d PDF: 216; Wheeler, 1922: 46, 737; Menozzi, 1927f PDF: 356; Santschi, 1930a PDF: 55; Karavaiev, 1931d PDF: 42; Santschi, 1937b PDF: 95; Weber, 1943d PDF: 288; Bernard, 1953b PDF: 218; Raignier & van Boven, 1955: 70, 86 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 179.
