Aenictus powersi

The type series was collected from beneath a piece of wood in a garden.

Identification
A member of the pachycerus group.

Key to Aenictus species groups

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Philippines.

Nomenclature

 *  powersi. Aenictus (Aenictus) powersi Wheeler, W.M. & Chapman, in Wheeler, W.M. 1930g: 210, fig. 6 (w.) PHILIPPINES. See also: Wilson, 1964a: 475.

Worker
Wilson (1964) - Syntypes: Worker selected at random: HW 0.78 mm, HL 0.74 mm, SL 0.45 mm. HW of 29 other syntypes 0.68-0.80mm. Antenna 10-segmented. Mandible typical in form; in closure leaving a small gap between its posterior border and anterior clypeal border. Clypeus convex, entire, unarmed. Parafrontal ridge weakly defined, only 0.12 mm long. Occiput straight, lacking collar. Basal face of propodeum straight. Propodeal junction smoothly rounded, with no trace of a ridge. Subpetiolar process very large, consisting of a subretangular lobe surmounted by a large, ventrally curving, acute flange. Pilosity sparse; only 10-25 hairs breaking the mesosomal profile. Length of longest pronotal hairs only about 0.25 mm.

Head shining, except for mandibles, which are microreticulate and opaque. Anterior face of pronotum, metanotum, mesopleuron, metapleuron, and sides of propodeum microreticulate and subopaque; remainder shining. Dorsum of pedicel shining; the rest microreticulate and opaque. Mostly clear medium yellow; parts of alitrunk with a brownish tinge.

Type Material
Described from several workers taken near Dumaguete at an altitude of 1,800 feet from a single colony under a piece of wood in a garden. This species is hypogaeic.

Type locality: Dumaguete, 540 m, Negros, P. I.