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A multitude of worker forms has been described under the name\n                    <jats:italic>Dorylus nigricans<\/jats:italic>\n                    Illiger, 1802, even though the link between the name-bearing type specimens, two males from Sierra Leone, and the respective conspecific workers has never been established. Extensive surveys of driver ants were first conducted at numerous West African sites from Senegal to Ghana. These yielded a total of only three species recognisable by morphological differences. We then examined the two\n                    <jats:italic>D. nigricans<\/jats:italic>\n                    syntypes and found that they belong to different species. By analysing mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences of males and workers from Ta\u00ef National Park (Ivory Coast), males with a phenotype similar to that of the larger syntype specimen were matched to workers originally described under the name\n                    <jats:italic>Anomma<\/jats:italic>\n                    arcens by Westwood (1847). This larger syntype male is designated as the lectotype of\n                    <jats:italic>D. nigricans<\/jats:italic>\n                    Illiger, 1802, so that\n                    <jats:italic>Anomma arcens<\/jats:italic>\n                    Westwood, 1847 is synonymised under\n                    <jats:italic>D. nigricans<\/jats:italic>\n                    . A worker neotype for the species originally described as\n                    <jats:italic>Anomma burmeisteri<\/jats:italic>\n                    Shuckard, 1840, whose type specimen was lost, is designated. A key to the large workers of the three driver ant species occurring in this region,\n                    <jats:italic>D. burmeisteri<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>D. nigricans<\/jats:italic>\n                    , and\n                    <jats:italic>D. mayri<\/jats:italic>\n                    , is provided. 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