Aenictus aitkenii Forel

Image from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala state, in Western Ghats of India. The ants were busy attacking Pheidole sps.

Aenictus aitkenii Forel, 1901a PDF: 475 (w.) INDIA (Karnataka). Indomalaya. Primary type information: Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated). Type-localities: India: Kanara (Aitken), Kanara (Wroughton), Thana (Gleadow), Travancore (Ferguson), and Travancore (Ingleby). Type-depository: MHNG. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Junior synonym of Aenictus aratus: Wilson, 1964a PDF: 446; Bolton, 1995b: 58; Tiwari, 1999 PDF: 17.Status as species: Bingham, 1903 PDF: 19; Emery, 1910b PDF: 29; Wheeler, 1919f PDF: 62; Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 10; Shattuck, 2008c PDF: 16; Bharti et al., 2012 PDF: 294 (in key); Bharti et al., 2016 PDF: 20.Senior synonym of Aenictus aratus asiatica: Shattuck, 2008c PDF: 16.