Aenictus batesi

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

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Aenictus batesi Forel, 1911 junior synonym of current valid taxon Aenictus decolor (Mayr, 1879)

Aenictus batesi Forel, 1911g: 255 (w.) NIGERIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Nigeria: Old Calabar (H.W. Bates). Primary type depositories: MHNG, NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0907024. Type notes: 1) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 66, cites 2 worker syntypes in NHMB. 2) Gómez, 2022: 23, cites 4 worker syntypes in MHNG.

Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 751.
Junior synonym of Aenictus decolor: Gotwald & Leroux, 1980: 600; Bolton, 1995b: 58; Gómez, 2022: 23.

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1977e. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel (2. Teil). Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)27:61-102.
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Forel, A. 1911g. Die Ameisen des K. Zoologischen Museums in München. Sitzungsberichte der Mathematischen-Physikalischen Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 11:249-303. 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
Gotwald, W. H., Jr.; Leroux, J. M. 1980. Taxonomy of the African army ant, Aenictus decolor (Mayr), with a description of the queen (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 82:599-608. 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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