The Ants of Africa
Genus Aenictus
Aenictus rixator Forel

Aenictus rixator Forel

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location South Africa (Aenictus rixator Forel, n. sp., Forel in Emery, 1901d: 48, worker) collected in Natal, by Wroughton
worker only described .

Very small, TL < 2mm; narrow mandibles.

Forel's (1901, in Emery 1901d) description is at {original description}. Arnold's translation (1915) of Forel's (1901) description is at {original description}.

Aenictus rixatorThe photomontage is of the holotype worker collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0907030
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