Aenictus rotundatus

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Kenya, Lesotho, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

Castes
Known only from the worker caste.

Nomenclature

 * . Aenictus rotundatus Mayr, 1901b: 1 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: South Africa: Cape Colony, Port Elizabeth (H. Brauns).
 * Type-depositories: NHMB, NHMW.
 * Status as species: Emery, 1910b: 31; Forel, 1913a: 112; Arnold, 1915: 138 (redescription); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 754; Bolton, 1995b: 60.
 * Distribution: South Africa, Zimbabwe.
 * 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.
 * merwei. Aenictus rotundatus var. merwei Santschi, 1932a: 382 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA.
 * Type-material: 6 syntype workers.
 * Type-locality: South Africa: Cape Prov., Montagu, i.1920 (v.d. Merwe).
 * Type-depository: NHMB.
 * Subspecies of rotundatus: Weber, 1943c: 293; Bolton, 1995b: 60.
 * Junior synonym of mariae: Gomez, 2022: 73.
 * Distribution: South Africa.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Arnold G. 1915. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14: 1-159.
 * Borowiec M. L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608: 1–280.
 * Botes, A., M.A. McGeoch, H.G. Robertson, A. van Niekerk, H.P. Davids and S.L. Chown. 2006. Ants, altitude and change in the northern Cape Floristic Region. Journal of Biogeography 33:71-90
 * Emery C. 1910. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dorylinae. Genera Insectorum 102: 1-34.
 * Hita Garcia, F., G. Fischer, M.K. Peters, R.R. Snelling and H.W. Wagele. 2009. A preliminary checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Kakamega Forest (Kenya). Journal of East African Natural HIstory 98(2): 147-165.
 * IZIKO South Africa Museum Collection
 * Mauda E. V., G. S. Joseph, C. L. Seymour, T. C. Munyai, and S. H. Foord. 2018. Changes in landuse alter ant diversity, assemblage composition and dominant functional groups in African savannas. Biodivers Conserv 27: 947–965.
 * Medler J. T. 1980: Insects of Nigeria - Check list and bibliography. Mem. Amer. Ent. Inst. 30: i-vii, 1-919.
 * Taylor B. 1980. Ants of the Nigerian Forest Zone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). V. Dorylinae, Leptanillinae. Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria Research Bulletin 8: 1-33.