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Aenictus
Sign in to saveAenictus is a large army ant genus distributed in the Old World tropics and subtropics. It contains about 181 species, making it one of the larger ant genera of the world.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHymenoptera
- FamilyFormicidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 438
- With media
- 50
- Family
- Formicidae
- Collections
- USNM, CAS
- Recorded in
- Gabon, Myanmar, South Africa, Ghana, China
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Encyclopedic overview
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Aenictus is a large army ant genus distributed in the Old World tropics and subtropics. It contains about 181 species, making it one of the larger ant genera of the world.
==Biology and distribution== The genus presently has 181 species, distributed through the East Mediterranean, Afrotropical, Oriental, Indo-Australian, and Australian regions. Most of the species are tropical, with terrestrial habitats, foraging in soil, leaf litter, most of the Southeast Asian species forage on the ground, and some on trees and hunting other ant species and termites.
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