Extant: 1 valid subspecies
Dorylus (Dorylus) braunsi Emery, 1895l PDF: 718, fig. G (w.) LIBERIA. Afrotropic. Primary type information: Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated). Type-localities: Liberia: (no further data) (H. Brauns), and Congo: Boma Sunda (no collector’s name). Type-depositories: MRHN, MSNG, NHMB. AntCat AntWiki HOLTaxonomic history
Status as species: Emery, 1901l PDF: 196 (in key); Emery, 1910b PDF: 10; Santschi, 1910c PDF: 352; Arnold, 1915: 120 (redescription); Wheeler, 1922: 730; Santschi, 1924b PDF: 198; Arnold, 1926 PDF: 220; Van Boven & Lévieux, 1970 PDF: 353; Bolton, 1995b: 178; Hita Garcia et al., 2013 PDF: 203.Senior synonym of Dorylus helvolus impressus: Santschi, 1924b PDF: 198; Bolton, 1995b: 178.(= D. helvolus v. impressus Stitz , 1910, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, V, p. 127).
Mr. Stitz m'a communique 2 exemplaires cotypes de cette forme (Alen, Guinee, espagnole, Tessmann). Ils ne different pas du type de D. braunsi dont je possede un type recu de Mr. Emmery.