Aenictus dlusskyi

Aenictus dlusskyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dorylinae
Genus:	Aenictus
Species:	A. dlusskyi
Binomial name
Aenictus dlusskyi Arnol'di, 1968 Specimen Labels

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Armenia (type locality), Iran, Turkmenistan.

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.

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.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• dlusskyi. Aenictus dlusskyi Arnol'di, 1968: 1800, fig. 1 (w.q.) ARMENIA.
  • Type-material: holotype worker, 19 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen.
  • Type-locality: holotype Armenia: Dzhrvezh, nr Erevan, 3.vi.1960, no. 1040 (G.M. Dlussky); paratypes with same data.
  • Type-depository: ZMUM.
  • Status as species: Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 180 (in key); Arakelian, 1994: 14; Bolton, 1995b: 59; Aktaç, Radchenko & Kiran, 2004: 362; Paknia, et al. 2008: 153; Borowiec, L. 2014: 7.
  • Distribution: Armenia, Iran.

Type Material

• Paratype, 2 workers, near Yerevan, Armenia, <collector unknown>, ANIC32-023722, Australian National Insect Collection.

References

• Aktaç, Nihat; Radchenko, Alexander G; Kiran, Kadri 2004. On the taxonomy of the West Palaearctic Aenictinae ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 54(2): 361-364 (page 362, diagnostic characters, see also)
• Arnol'di, K. V. 1968b. Important additions to the myrmecofauna (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the USSR, and descriptions of new forms. Zool. Zh. 4 47: 1800-1822 (page 1800, fig. 1 worker, queen described)
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
• Gomez, 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 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.5898821).
• Radchenko, A.G.; Alipanah, H. 2004. The first record of the subfamily Aenictinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Iran. Vestnik Zoologii 38(4): 75-78, 96 (page 75, record in Iran)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
• Paknia O., A. Radchenko, H. Alipanah, and M. Pfeiffer. 2008. A preliminary checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Iran. Myrmecological News 11: 151-159.
• Radchenko A.G.; H. Alipanah. 2004. The first record of the subfamily Aenictinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Iran. Vestnik Zoologii 38(4):75-78.