The Ants of Africa
Genus Aenictus
Aenictus raptor Forel

Aenictus raptor Forel

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Zaïre (Aenictus raptor n. sp., Forel, 1913b: 314, male) Lumbumbashi Valley (Buttgenbach)
male only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Forel's (1913b) description is at {original description}. Mandibles as Aenictus buttgenbachi, regularly attenuated from base to apex but without a basal tooth.

Aenictus raptor maleThe photomontage is of the holotype male collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=rmcaent000017714
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