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Aenictus furibundus
| Aenictus furibundus | |
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| Scientific classification (junior synonym of Aenictus rotundatus) | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
| Genus: | Aenictus |
| Species: | Aenictus furibundus Arnold, 1959
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This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Aenictus rotundatus.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- furibundus. Aenictus furibundus Arnold, 1959: 335, figs. 20, 20a,b (w.) ZIMBABWE.
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “a large colony of some thousands of individuals”).
- Type-locality: Zimbabwe (“Southern Rhodesia”): Cashel (G. Arnold).
- Type-depositories: BMNH, SAMC.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 59.
- Junior synonym of rotundatus: Gomez, 2022: 73.
- Distribution: Zimbabwe.
References
- Arnold, G. 1959. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 14. Occas. Pap. Natl. Mus. South. Rhod. B. Nat. Sci. 3: 316-339. (page 335, fig. 20 worker described)
- 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).