• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1964c: 131 (l.)
• Junior synonym of Aenictus ceylonicus: Wilson, 1964a: 452; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 52; Taylor, 1987a: 6; Bolton, 1995b: 61; Zhou, 2001a: 59.
• Status as species: Emery, 1910b: 30; Brown, 1952b: 123; Brown, 1958a: 5; Shattuck, 2008c: 14 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Aenictus deuqueti: Brown, 1952b: 123; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 53; Shattuck, 2008c: 14.
• Senior synonym of Aenictus exiguus: Brown, 1958a: 5; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 53; Shattuck, 2008c: 14.

Junior synonyms

• Aenictus deuqueti Crawley, 1923
• Aenictus exiguus Clark, 1934

Citations

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• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1952b ("1951"). New synonymy in the army ant genus Aenictus Schuckard. Psyche (Cambridge) 58:123. PDF
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