Aenictus piercei

Identification
A member of the javanus species group.

Key to Aenictus species groups

Distribution
Known from India and Philippines.

This taxon was described from Philippines.

Castes




Nomenclature

 *  piercei. Aenictus (Aenictus) piercei Wheeler, W.M. & Chapman, in Wheeler, W.M. 1930g: 209, fig. 7 (w.) PHILIPPINES. See also: Wilson, 1964a: 474; Jaitrong & Yamane, 2012: 63.

Worker
Wilson (1964) - Dumaguete: HW 0.46 mm, HL 0.51 mm, SL 0.27 mm. (Syntype: HW 0.44 mm; only HW could be measured in this specimen). Antenna 10-segmented; scape exceptionally short and incrassate. Mandibles narrow, 3- or 4-toothed; on closure, not separated by a gap from the anterior clypeal border. Clypeus convex, entire, unarmed. Parafrontal ridge lacking. Occiput very feebly convex. Basal face of propodeum straight. Propodeal junction evenly rounded. Femora incrassate, a distinctive character. Subpetiolar process proportionately very large, consisting of a symmetrical, downward directed lobe surmounted by a flange whose major angle is about 80° and projects posteriorly. Pilosity moderately abundant; length of longest pronotal hairs about 0.10 mm.

Head shining. Pronotum shining; remainder of mesosoma microreticulate (reticular diameters about 0.008 mm), dorsum feebly shining and sides microreticulate and subopaque. Concolorous medium yellow.