Aenictus exiguus

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

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Aenictus exiguus Clark, 1934 junior synonym of current valid taxon Aenictus turneri Forel, 1900

Aenictus exiguus Clark, 1934b: 21, pl. 2, fig. 1 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland). Australasia.

Primary type information: Type-material: neotype worker (by designation of Shattuck, 2008c: 14). Type-locality: neotype Australia: Queensland, Lake Eacham Nat. Park, 17°18’S, 145°37’E, 25-27.ix.1972, (R.W. Taylor). Type-depository: ANIC. Type notes: Other non-type specimens from neotype nest series are present in ANIC. Data of original holotype worker: Australia: N Queensland, Cairns Dist. (A.M. Lea), deposited in SAMA, now lost (Shattuck, 2008c: 16).

Neotype designation: Shattuck, 2008c: 14.
Junior synonym of Aenictus ceylonicus: Wilson, 1964a: 452; Bolton, 1995b: 59; Zhou, 2001a: 59.
Junior synonym of Aenictus turneri: Brown, 1958a: 5; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 53; Shattuck, 2008c: 14.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958a ("1957"). The army ant Aenictus exiguus Clark a synonym. Psyche (Cambridge) 64:5. PDF
Clark, J. 1934b. New Australian ants. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 8:21-47. 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
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
Wilson, E. O. 1964a. The true army ants of the Indo-Australian area (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae). Pacific Insects 6:427-483. PDF
Zhou, S. 2001a. Ants of Guangxi. [In Chinese.]. Guilin, China: Guangxi Normal University Press, 255 pp. PDF

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