Aenictus certus

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India.

Castes
Known only from the male caste.

Nomenclature

 * . Aenictus certus Westwood, 1842: 79 (m.) (no state data, “Habitat ?”).
 * Type-material: holotype(?) male.
 * [Note: no indication of number of specimens is given.]
 * Type-locality: none stated.
 * [Note: type-locality perhaps India, after Bingham, 1903: 10.]
 * Type-depository: LSLC.
 * Status as species: Smith, F. 1859b: 9; Roger, 1863b: 41; Mayr, 1863: 394; Smith, F. 1871a: 336; Dalla Torre, 1893: 7; Bingham, 1903: 10; Emery, 1910b: 30; Bolton, 1995b: 59; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 20.
 * Distribution: India.

Description
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from (Bingham 1903)

Another doubtful species is Aenictus certus, described by Westwood without locality (Arcan. Entom. i, 2 (1842), p. 79). The type is in the British Museum, but is in very bad condition. Dalla Torre, in his Catalogue of the Formicida, gives the habitat of this species as India; but on what authority I do not know. I give a brief description

Male

Closely resembles A. ambiguus. Shuck., but is smaller and lighter in colour. Head black; thorax, legs and abdomen honey yellow: head transverse, but longer than in A. ambiguus; scutellum not so prominent, narrower and compressed; metanotum with a very distinct basal portion. Pedicel flat above, a little concave at the extreme base; pygidium strongly convex, entire, with no longitudinally impressed medial line.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Bharti H. 2011. List of Indian ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Halteres 3: 79-87.