| Aenictus aitkenii | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Genus: | Aenictus |
| Species: | A. aitkenii |
| Binomial name | |
| Aenictus aitkenii Forel, 1901 | |
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Aenictus aitkenii is a species of reddish brown army ant found in India, and Sri Lanka.
Dorylinae is an ant subfamily, with distributions in both the Old World and New World. Brady et al. (2014) synonymized the previous dorylomorph subfamilies under Dorylinae., while Borowiec (2016) reviewed and revised the genera, resurrecting many genera which had previously been merged. Dorylinae genera are suggested to have evolved sometime between 102 to 74 million years ago, subsequently undergoing rapid adaptive radiation events during their early history.
Aenictus is a large army ant genus distributed in the Old World tropics and subtropics. It contains about 181 species, making it one of the larger ant genera of the world.
Aenictus ceylonicus is a species of reddish brown army ant found in Southern India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia and Australia. They are completely blind and around 3 mm in length. These ants are seen foraging underneath leaf litter in forests and well-vegetated areas, travelling in a trail of in three or more columns alongside each other, in parts of India. Their antennae, as in most species of Aenictus, have ten segments. The scape is long and extends above the head. The head is smooth and shiny. The mesosoma and the head region are dark brown, while the gaster is oval and lighter in colour, nearly translucent. The mesosoma is broad anteriorly and strongly compressed posteriorly. The petiole and the post petiole are large, conical and shining. They occur in rainforests and moist deciduous forests building temporary nests on the ground and in rotting logs.
A. silvestrii may refer to:
Aenictus gutianshanensis is a Chinese species of army ant in the genus Aenictus. The species is known only from a single colony. Little is known about its biology, but it is probably most closely related to A. vieti.
Aenictus biroi is a species of reddish brown army ant found in Sri Lanka.
Aenictus fergusoni is a species of reddish brown army ant found in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Vietnam, and China.
Aenictus gracilis is a species of reddish brown army ant found in Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka.
Aenictus pachycerus is a species of reddish brown army ant found in India, and Sri Lanka.
Aenictus porizonoides is a species of reddish brown army ant found in Sri Lanka.
Aenictus longi is a species of tannish beige army ant found in Bangladesh, and India. The species has two subspecies, "Aenictus longi longi", and "Aenictus longi taivanae".
Aenictus aratus is a species of beige and dark brown army ant found in Northern Australia. Parasitic depredation has been observed from Phoridae flies.
Aenictus fuscipennis is a species of light brown army ant found in Indonesia.
Aenictus idoneus is a species of brown army ant found in Indonesia.
Aenictus currax is a species of dark brown army ant found on New Guinea. A colony of 100,000+ was chronicled on New Guinea in Karema, PNG. The ants form new colonies through fission.
Aenictus feae is a species of brown army ant found in Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Yunnan.
Aenictus asperivalvus is a species of light brown army ant found in Cote D'Ivoire.
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