Aenictus

Aenictus
Aenictus ceylonicus worker from Indonesia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dorylinae
Genus: Aenictus
Shuckard, 1840
Type species
Aenictus ambiguus[1]
Diversity[2]
181 species
Synonyms

Paraenictus Wheeler, 1929
Typhlatta Smith, 1857

Aenictus is a large army ant genus distributed in the Old World tropics and subtropics.[3] It contains about 181 species,[2] making it one of the larger ant genera of the world.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference AWAenictinae was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Bolton, B. (2014). "Aenictus". AntCat. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Jaitrong&Yamane_2013 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Jaitrong, W. J.; Yamane, S. (2012). "Review of the Southeast Asian species of the Aenictus javanus and Aenictus philippinensis species groups (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Aenictinae)". ZooKeys (193): 49–78. Bibcode:2012ZooK..193...49J. doi:10.3897/zookeys.193.2768. PMC 3361139. PMID 22679379.