Aenictus villiersi

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Aenictus villiersi Bernard, 1953 valid

Aenictus villiersi Bernard, 1953b: 221, fig. 7Ev,Fv (w.) GUINEA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 4 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Guinea (“French Guinea”): NE slope Mt Nimba, 700 m., ix.1946 (A. Villiers). Primary type depository: MNHN. Primary type specimens: EY9136, EY20210, EY20211, EY20212.

Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 61; Gómez, 2022: 24 (redescription); Gómez et al., 2024: 5.

Citations

Bernard, F. 1953b ("1952"). La réserve naturelle intégrale du Mt Nimba. XI. Hyménoptères Formicidae. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 19:165-270. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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

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