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Genus: Aenictus   Shuckard, 1840 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

185 species, 30 subspecies

Aenictus Shuckard, 1840b PDF: 266. Type-species: Aenictus ambiguus, by original designation. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

References:
[Note: Year lettering of references up to 2001 may not match AntCat lettering] Roger, 1863b: 36,41 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863: 394,457 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 17 (Aenictus, Typhlatta diagnoses); Mayr, 1879 PDF: 668 (Typhlatta species key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 7 (catalogue); Forel, 1901a PDF: 464 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903: 6 (diagnosis, India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Ashmead, 1906: 24 (genera key); Emery, 1910b: 28 (diagnosis, catalogue); Arnold, 1915: 136, 137 (diagnosis, South Africa species key); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 751 (Afrotropical catalogue); Wheeler, 1930j PDF: 198, 207 (A. (Typhlatta) & Philippines A. (Aenictus) species keys); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 10 (Asia checklist); Wilson, 1964a PDF: 436 (Indo-Australian species, revision, key); Taylor & Brown, D.R. 1985: 52 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a: 6 (Australia, New Caledonia & New Zealand checklists); Billen & Gotwald, 1988: 293 (Dufour's gland); Terayama & Yamane, 1989 PDF: 602 (Indonesia, Sumatra species key); Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990 PDF: 179 (Turkmenistan species key); Bolton, 1990c: 1358 (diagnosis,morphology, phylogeny); Baroni Urbani, Bolton & Ward, 1992: 315 (phylogeny); Bolton, 1994: 12 (diagnosis, synoptic classification); Xu, 1994a: 118 (China species key); Bolton, 1995a: 1047 (census);Bolton, 1995b: 58 (catalogue); Wu, J. & Wang, 1995: 50 (China species key); Holldobler, Obermayer &Peeters, 1996: 158 (metatibial gland); Shattuck, 1999: 58 (Australia synopsis); Billen, Gobin & Ito, 1999: 307 (postpygidial gland); Zhou, 2001: 58 (China, Guangxi species key); Jaitrong & Yamane, 2010A PDF:329 (Southeast Asia silvestrii-assemblage species revision, key); Jaitrong & Yamane, 2013 PDF (Southeast Asia Aenictus ceylonicus species group revision, key); Jaitrong & Wiwatwitaya, 2013 PDF (pachycerus-group diagnosis, Southeast Asia species key); Yamane & Wang, 2015 PDF: 53 (pachycerus-group, Borneo); Staab, 2015 PDF: 137 (ceylonicus-group, key to Chinese members); Borowiec, 2016 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427 PDF: 78 (worker, male diagnosis)

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Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Palearctic bioregions.

Afrotropical Region: Africa, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Central, Central, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eastern Africa, Eastern Cape, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Gabon, Gauteng, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haut-Katanga, Ivory Coast, Kakamega, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Limpopo, Mali, Middle Africa, Mozambique, Mpumalanga, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Southern Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Western, Western Africa, Western Cape, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Australasia Region: Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Gulf, Morobe, New South Wales, Oceania, Papua, Papua New Guinea, Queensland, Western Australia
Indomalaya Region: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Asia, Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Brunei, Cambodia, Chachoengsao, Chaiyaphum, Chiang Mai, Goa, Gorontalo, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Jawa Tengah, Jiangxi, Laos, Mae Hong Son, Malaysia, Melaka, Misamis Occidental, Myanmar, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Negros Oriental, Nepal, Nicobar Island, Ninh Bình, Philippines, Sabah, Sarawak, Selangor, Singapore, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi Selatan, Sulawesi Utara, Sumatera Barat, Sumatera Selatan, Taiwan, Tamil Nadu, Thailand, Trang, Vietnam, West Bengal, Yunnan, Zhejiang
Oceania Region: Melanesia
Palearctic Region: Afghanistan, Al Bahah, Algeria, Armenia, China, Eastern Asia, Egypt, Greece, Himachal Pradesh, Iran, Japan, Morocco, Northern Africa, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Western Asia

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Aenictus   Shattuck, S. O., 2008, Review of the ant genus Aenictus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia with notes on A. ceylonicus (Mayr)., Zootaxa 1926, pp. 1-19: 3-4, (download) 3-4 22170
Aenictus   Shattuck, S. O., 2008, Review of the ant genus Aenictus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia with notes on A. ceylonicus (Mayr)., Zootaxa 1926, pp. 1-19: 3-4, (download) 3-4 22170


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