The Ants of Africa
Genus Aenictus
Aenictus asperivalvus Santschi

Aenictus asperivalvus Santschi

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Ivory Coast (Aenictus asperivalvus n. sp., Santschi, 1919b: 233; male) from Dimbroko, collected by Le Moult; male only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Aenictus asperivalvus male genitaliaSantschi's (1919b) description is at {original description}. He (1920d: 373) gave a fuller, illustrated description at {original description}

Described as occasionally found on Ghana cocoa, probably as "chance migrants" from leaf litter, by Strickland (1951a).

Aenictus asperivalvusThe photomontage of the type male is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0911416.
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