Aenictus bidentatus

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Aenictus bidentatus Donisthorpe, 1942 valid

Aenictus (Aenictus) bidentatus Donisthorpe, 1942f: 701 (w.) GHANA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 7 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Ghana (“Gold Coast”): E.P. Tafo, ix.1940, No. 1352, ex cocoa (G.S. Cotterell). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimens: BMNH(E)1015729 (CASENT0902685), NHMUK012849178, NHMUK012849179. Type notes: Type locality incorrectly recorded as New Guinea by Chapman & Capco, 1951: 10.

Junior synonym of Aenictus decolor: Gotwald & Leroux, 1980: 600; Bolton, 1995b: 59.
Status as species: Gómez, 2022: 19 (redescription).

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. 1942f. New species of ants (Hym., Formicidae) from the Gold Coast, Borneo, Celebes, New Guinea and New Hebrides. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)9:701-709. 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

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