9 subspecies

affinis. Dorylus affinis Shuckard, 1840c: 316 (m.) GAMBIA. Emery, 1901c: 189 (w.l.). Senior synonym of brevinodosus: Emery, 1901c: 189; of planiceps: Emery, 1895j: 719. Current subspecies: nominal plus aegyptiacus, denudatus, exilis, hirsutus, loewyi, parapsidalis, pulliceps, sudanicus, ugandensis. See also: Arnold, 1915: 120; Santschi, 1917c: 18.