Aenictus brazzai

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

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Aenictus brazzai Santschi, 1910 junior synonym of current valid taxon Aenictus eugenii Emery, 1895

Aenictus eugenii var. brazzai Santschi, 1910c: 355 (w.) CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 11 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Congo (“Congo français”): Brazzaville, 1.xii.1906 (A. Weiss). Primary type depositories: HNHM, MHNG, MRAC, NHMB, OUM. Primary type specimens: CASENT0901482, CASENT0911418, CASENT0916749, MRACFOR000016, MRACFOR000017. Type notes: Gómez, 2022: 26, reports 3 workers in MNHN from type series, but not labelled as types.

Subspecies of Aenictus eugenii: Wheeler, 1922: 752.
Status as species: Santschi, 1924b: 204; Bolton, 1995b: 59.
Junior synonym of Aenictus eugenii: Gómez, 2022: 26.

Obsolete combinations

Aenictus eugenii brazzai

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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
Santschi, F. 1910c ("1909"). Formicides nouveaux ou peu connus du Congo français. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 78:349-400. PDF
Santschi, F. 1924b. Descriptions de nouveaux Formicides africains et notes diverses. II. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 12:195-224. 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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