Aenictus nesiotis

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Aenictus nesiotis Wheeler & Chapman, 1930 valid

Aenictus (Aenictus) aratus subsp. nesiotis Wheeler & Chapman, 1930: 208, fig. 7a-d (w.) PHILIPPINES (Negros). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous specimens from three colonies”). Primary type locality: Philippines: Negros, Dumaguete, 12.iv.1927, and 29.xi.1925 (J.W. Chapman). Primary type depository: MCZC. Type notes: Shattuck, 2008c: 11, cites 39 syntype workers from the type locality, and also one “syntype” from Los Banos (Luzon), a locality not mentioned in the original description and therefore not type material.

[Misspelled as nesiotus by Chapman & Capco, 1951: 10.]
Subspecies of Aenictus aratus: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 10; Chapman, 1963: 262; Baltazar, 1966: 230.
Junior synonym of Aenictus aratus: Wilson, 1964a: 446; Bolton, 1995b: 60.
Status as species: Shattuck, 2008c: 11 (redescription); Jaitrong & Wiwatwitaya, 2013: 99 (in key).

Obsolete combinations

Aenictus aratus nesiotis

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.; Wiwatwitaya, D. 2013. Two new new species of the Aenictus pachycerus species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Aenictinae) from Southeast Asia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 61:97-102. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 2008c. Review of the ant genus Aenictus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia with notes on A. ceylonicus (Mayr). Zootaxa 1926:1-19. PDF
Wheeler, W. M.; Chapman, J. W. 1930. Aenictus (Aenictus) aratus Forel subsp. nesiotis Wheeler and Chapman subsp. nov. Pp. 208-209 in: 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
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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