Aenictus nganduensis

Identification
A member of the ceylonicus group.

Key to Aenictus species groups

Distribution
This taxon was described, and is only known, from New Guinea.

Nomenclature

 *  nganduensis. Aenictus nganduensis Wilson, 1964a: 470, figs. 47, 48 (w.) NEW GUINEA.

Worker
Holotype: HW 0.58 mm, HL 0.61 mm, SL 0.53 mm. Antenna 10-segmented. Mandibles narrow, 3-toothed; in closure a gap remains between their posterior border and the anterior clypeal border nearly as wide as the maximum mandibular width. Clypeus shallowly concave, unarmed. Parafrontal ridge absent. Occiput convex, lacking collar. Propodeal junction acutely angulate. Subpetiolar process large, consisting of an acutely angular, forward-directed flange. Pilosity moderately abundant; length of longest pronotal hairs about 0.20mm.

Head shining. Pronotum and mesonotum shining. Remainder of mesosoma microreticulate (reticular diameters about 0.01 mm) and opaque. Mesopleuron in addition bearing 3 coarse longitudinal rugae. Dorsum of postpetiole shining; remainder of pedicel microreticulate and opaque.

Paratype: HW 0.56 mm, HL 0.61 mm, SL 0.51 mm. Nearly identical to holotype.

Type Material
Type locality: Nguanduo, 1000 m, Mongi-Mape Watershed, Huon Peninsula, NE New Guinea, midmountain rain forest (Wilson, acc. No. 738).