A New Army Ant of the Genus Aenictus from Thailand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Weeyawat Jaitrong; Katsuyuki Eguchi

Authors

Weeyawat Jaitrong Natural History Museum, National Science Museum, Thailand, Technopolis, Khlong 5, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand; Department of Natural Science, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima-shi 890-0065, Japan
Katsuyuki Eguchi Department of International Health, the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki City 852-8523, Japan

Keywords:

Ant, Aenictus, new species, taxonomy, Thailand

Abstract

A new species of the ant genus Aenictus is described from northern Thailand under the name A. leptotyphlatta Jaitrong and Eguchi, sp. nov. based on the worker caste. This ant is black to dark brown and smallest among the species from the Oriental, Indo-Australian, and Australasian regions which have typhlatta spots on the head.

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