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SUBFAMILY AENICTINAE, Genus Aenictus - Aenictus hamifer Emery

Aenictus hamifer Emery

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Somalia (Aenictus hamifer n. sp., Emery, 1896i: 153, illustrated, male) Uebi-Ganana = see below
subspecies spinosior (Aenictus hamifer Em. r. spinosior n. stirps, Stitz, 1917: 335, illustrated, male) from Algeria, Raris, 15-17.x.1914, von Geyr - no images on Antweb (October 2015)
males only described (see Bolton, 1995, has type location as Kenya) .


{Aenictus hamifer male genitalia}Emery's (1896i) illustrated description is at {original description}. Stitz's (1917) illustrated description of spinosior is at {original description}.

Egypt Records - Gebel Elba (Sharaf list, 2006).


{Aenictus hamifer}.


Aenictus hamifer maleThe photomontage is of the holotype male collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0903756

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