The Ants of Africa
Genus Aenictus
Aenictus crucifer Santschi

Aenictus crucifer Santschi

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Kenya (Aenictus crucifer n. sp., Santschi, 1914b: 68, illustrated, male) Tiwi, xi.1911, Alluaud & Jeannel
subspecies tuberculatus (Aenictus tuberculatus n. sp., Arnold, 1915: 142, male; subspecies of crucifer, Santschi, 1924b: 204) from Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, G Arnold
male only described .


Aenictus crucifer male genitaliaSantschi's (1914b) illustrated description is at {original description}, he noted it as possibly a simple subspecies of Aenictus buttgenbachi. Santschi (1924b) gave a brief note, this is at {original description}. Arnold's (1915) description of tuberculatus is at {original description} and {original description}.


{Aenictus cruccifer male}The photomontage of the type male is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0911419

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