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Aenictus certus
| Aenictus certus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
| Genus: | Aenictus |
| Species: | A. certus |
| Binomial name | |
| Aenictus certus Westwood, 1842
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Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
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Countries Occupied
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Estimated Abundance
| Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species. |
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Biology
Castes
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| Specimen code casent0902691. . | |
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- certus. Aenictus certus Westwood, 1842: 79 (m.) (no state data).
- Type-material: holotype (?) male.
- [Note: no indication of number of specimens is given.]
- Type-locality: none stated “Habitat ?”: (no further data) (“In Mus. Soc. Linn. Lond.”).
- [Notes (i): type-locality perhaps India (Bingham, 1903: 10); (ii) Bingham comments that the “type….is in very bad condition”.]
- Type-depository: LSLC.
- Status as species: Smith, F. 1859b: 9; Roger, 1863b: 41; Mayr, 1863: 394; Smith, F. 1871a: 336; Dalla Torre, 1893: 7; Bingham, 1903: 10 (redescription); Emery, 1910b: 30; Bolton, 1995b: 59; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 20.
- Distribution: India.
Description
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from (Bingham 1903)
Another doubtful species is Aenictus certus, described by Westwood without locality (Arcan. Entom. i, 2 (1842), p. 79). The type is in the British Museum, but is in very bad condition. Dalla Torre, in his Catalogue of the Formicida, gives the habitat of this species as India; but on what authority I do not know. I give a brief description
Male
Closely resembles A. ambiguus. Shuck., but is smaller and lighter in colour. Head black; thorax, legs and abdomen honey yellow: head transverse, but longer than in A. ambiguus; scutellum not so prominent, narrower and compressed; metanotum with a very distinct basal portion. Pedicel flat above, a little concave at the extreme base; pygidium strongly convex, entire, with no longitudinally impressed medial line.
References
- Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. (page 10, see also)
- Westwood, J. O. 1842. Monograph of the hymenopterous group, Dorylides. Pp. 73-80 in: Westwood, J. O. Arcana entomologica; or illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects. Volume 1, No. 5. London: W. Smith, pp. 65-80, pl. 17-20. (page 79, male described)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Bharti H. 2011. List of Indian ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Halteres 3: 79-87.