Aenictus furibundus

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

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Aenictus furibundus Arnold, 1959 junior synonym of current valid taxon Aenictus rotundatus Mayr, 1901

Aenictus furibundus Arnold, 1959: 335, figs. 20, 20a,b (w.) ZIMBABWE. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “a large colony of some thousands of individuals”). Primary type locality: Zimbabwe (“Southern Rhodesia”): Cashel, 16.xi.1916 (G. Arnold). Primary type depositories: BMNH, MSNG, SAMC. Primary type specimens: BMNH(E)1015732, CASENT0902688, CASENT0905850. Type notes: Gómez, 2022: 73, cites 6 worker syntypes in BMNH.

Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 59.
Junior synonym of Aenictus rotundatus: Gómez, 2022: 73; Gómez et al., 2024: 5.

Citations

Arnold, G. 1959. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 14. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia. B. Natural Sciences 3:316-339. 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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