Aenictus longi

Aenictus longi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dorylinae
Genus:	Aenictus
Species:	A. longi
Binomial name
Aenictus longi Forel, 1901 Specimen Labels
Subspecies
Aenictus longi taivanae Forel, 1913

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 17.333333° to 17.333333°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Oriental Region: Bangladesh, India (type locality).

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.

Castes

Known only from males.

Images from AntWeb

Syntype of Aenictus longi. Male (alate). Specimen code casent0907012. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.

Nomenclature

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

• longi. Aenictus longi Forel, 1901a: 470 (m.) INDIA (Meghalaya).
  • Type-material: holotype (?) male.
  • [Note: no indication of number of specimens is given.]
  • Type-locality: India: Garo Hills (Long).
  • Type-depository: MHNG.
  • Status as species: Bingham, 1903: 13; Emery, 1910b: 31; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 16; Wilson, 1964a: 483; Bolton, 1995b: 60; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 266; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 21.
  • Distribution: India, Myanmar.
  • Current subspecies: nominal plus taivanae.

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

Forel 1901. Page 470.

References

• Cantone S. 2018. Winged Ants, The queen. Dichotomous key to genera of winged female ants in the World. The Wings of Ants: morphological and systematic relationships (self-published).
• Dhadwal, T., Bharti, H. 2023. Aenictus dirangensis sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a new species of Aenictus ceylonicus group from India. Journal of the Entomological Research Society 25(2): 387-403 (doi:10.51963/jers.v25i2.2367).
• Forel, A. 1901a. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part VIII. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 13:462-477. (page 470, male d*Heterick, B.E. 2022. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part II: Distribution and biology. Records of the Western Australian Museum, supplement 86: 247-510 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2022.247-510).
• Khachonpisitsak, S., Yamane, S., Sriwichai, P., Jaitrong, W. 2020. An updated checklist of the ants of Thailand (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 998, 1–182 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.998.54902).

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