Aenictus asantei
Campione et al., 1983:
873, 7, figs (w.q.)
GHANA.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Ghana: University of Ghana, Legon, 27.vi.1971, GC-047, on cultivated land (B.M Campione, et al.). Primary type depository: MCZC. Primary type specimen: MCZC-ENT33040.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated), 1 paratype queen. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC, MNHN, ROMT.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 58; Gómez, 2022: 17 (redescription).
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Campione, B. M.; Novak, J. A.; Gotwald, W. H., Jr. 1983. Taxonomy and morphology of the West African army ant, Aenictus asantei n. sp. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 76:873-883. 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