Species Aenictus turneri Forel, 1900

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aenictus turneri Forel, A. 1900. Ponerinae et Dorylinae d'Australie récoltées par MM. Turner, Froggatt, Nugent, Chase, Rothney, J.J. Walker, etc. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 44: 54-77 [75].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) GMNH W, Mackay, QLD; ANIC W, Mackay, QLD.
• Aenictus deuqueti Crawley, W.C. 1923. Myrmecological notes - new Australian Formicidae. Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 35: 177-179 [177].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM *W, Lismore, NSW.
• Aenictus exiguus Clark, J. 1934. New Australian ants. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 8: 21-47 [21 pls 2-3].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA *W, Cairns district, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brown, W.L. jr 1952. New synonymy in the army ant genus Aenictus Shuckard. Psyche (Cambridge) 58: 123 [123]
• Brown, W.L.,Jr 1958. The army ant Aenictus exiguus Clark a synonym. Psyche (Cambridge) 64: 5 [5]
• Shattuck, S.O. 2008. Review of the ant genus Aenictus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia with notes on A. ceylonicus (Mayr). Zootaxa 1926: 1-19 [14]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Barrow Island

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
23-Mar-2015	FORMICIDAE	27-Mar-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
07-Aug-2012		25-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		11-May-2010	ADDED