Aenictus similis

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Aenictus similis Donisthorpe, 1948 junior synonym of current valid taxon Aenictus orientalis (Karavaiev, 1926)

Aenictus similis Donisthorpe, 1948g: 131 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 14 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”), Maffin Bay, 8.viii.1944 (E.S. Ross). Primary type depositories: CASC, MCZC.

Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 12.
Junior synonym of Aenictus ceylonicus: Wilson, 1964a: 452; Bolton, 1995b: 60; Zhou, 2001a: 59.
Junior synonym of Aenictus orientalis: Shattuck, 2008c: 18.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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
Donisthorpe, H. 1948g. A fourth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)1:131-143. 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
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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