Aenictus luzoni

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Aenictus luzoni Wheeler & Chapman, 1925 valid

Aenictus luzoni Wheeler & Chapman, 1925: 48, pl. 1, figs. 1, 2 (w.) PHILIPPINES (Luzon). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Jaitrong & Yamane, 2011a: 40). Primary type locality: lectotype Philippines: Luzon, Ilocos Norte Prov., Bangui (C.S. Banks). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype worker. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Type notes: Original description mentions 8 worker syntypes.

Lectotype designation: Jaitrong & Yamane, 2011a: 40.
[Misspelled as luzonensis by Chapman & Capco, 1951: 13.]
Combination in Aenictus (Typhlatta): Wheeler, 1930j: 199.
Status as species: Wheeler, 1930j: 206; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 13; Chapman, 1963: 263; Wilson, 1964a: 470; Baltazar, 1966: 231; Bolton, 1995b: 60; Jaitrong & Yamane, 2011a: 40 (redescription).

Citations

Baltazar, C. R. 1966. A catalogue of Philippine Hymenoptera (with a bibliography, 1758-1963). Pacific Insects Monograph 8:1-488. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Chapman, J. W. 1963. Some new and interesting Philippine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Philippine Journal of Science 92:247-263. PDF
Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
Jaitrong, W.; Yamane, S. 2011a. Synopsis of Aenictus species groups and revision of the A. currax and A. laeviceps groups in the eastern Oriental, Indo-Australian, and Australasian regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Aenictinae). Zootaxa 3128:1-46. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1930j. Philippine ants of the genus Aenictus with descriptions of the females of two species. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 38:193-212. PDF
Wheeler, W. M.; Chapman, J. W. 1925. The ants of the Philippine Islands. Part I, Dorylinae and Ponerinae. Philippine Journal of Science 28:47-73. PDF
Wilson, E. O. 1964a. The true army ants of the Indo-Australian area (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae). Pacific Insects 6:427-483. PDF

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