Aenictus steindachneri

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Aenictus steindachneri Mayr, 1901 valid

Aenictus steindachneri Mayr, 1901b: 2 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: South Africa: Orange Free State, Reddersburg (H. Brauns). Primary type depository: NHMB, NHMW. Primary type specimens: CASENT0911440, CASENT0919642, Type notes: Gómez, 2022: 57, records 5 worker syntypes (4 in NHMB, 1 in NHMW), plus another 6 in MHNG, but the latter were collected by Arnold and are therefore not type material.

Gómez, 2022: 57 (s.)
Status as species: Emery, 1904a: 111; Emery, 1910b: 31; Santschi, 1914b: 69; Arnold, 1915: 139; Wheeler, 1922: 754; Bolton, 1995b: 60; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 201; Gómez, 2022: 57 (redescription); Gómez et al., 2024: 5.

Citations

Arnold, G. 1915. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:1-159. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1904a. Le affinità del genere Leptanilla e i limiti delle Dorylinae. Archivio Zoologico Italiano 2:107-116. PDF
Emery, C. 1910b. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dorylinae. Genera Insectorum 102:1-34. PDF
Gómez, K. 2022. A revision of the Afrotropical species of the Dorylinae ant genus Aenictus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) based on the worker caste. Belgian Journal of Entomology 124:1-86. PDF
Gómez, K.; Csősz, S.; Jégh, T.; Keller, R. A. 2024. Aenictus brutus sp. nov., a new species of the army ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae) from Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve Forest (Liberia). Belgian Journal of Entomology 148:1-9. PDF
Hita Garcia, F.; Wiesel, E.; Fischer, G. 2013. The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History 101 (2):127-222. PDF
Mayr, G. 1901b. Südafrikanische Formiciden, gesammelt von Dr. Hans Brauns. Annalen des Kaiserlich-Königlichen Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 16:1-30. PDF
Santschi, F. 1914b. Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale, 1911-1912. Résultats scientifiques. Insectes Hyménoptères. II. Formicidae. Paris: Libr. A. Schulz, pp. 41-148. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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