Aenictogiton attentuatus Santschi
Type location Zaïre (Aenictus elongatus Sants.
var attenuatus n. var., Santschi 1919c: 247, illustrated, male; raised
to species, Santschi, 1924b: 199) 300 km south of Kindu, by Burgeon .
Santschi (1924b, my translation) noted he raised it to species
status as it was much more slender than elongatus, of which he
formerly regarded it as a variety.
Further specimens from Congo (Belgian) - Lumbumbashi
(Elizabethville), Pweto (Dr Gerard); Sankisia, 4.vi.1918 (Dr Rodhain)
- both single male specimens..
His original description (Santschi, 1919c) is at
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MALE - TL 5.5 mm; colour clear rust; head and gaster rust brown,
lower thorax rust. Pilosity and sculpture as the type (elongatus);
petiole a little narrower and more deeply convex below, with the
inferior lobe only occupying a little more than one third of the
median part of the node, it is higher in front and attenuated
posteriorly. Wings brownish. Otherwise as elongatus.
Congo (Belgian), 300 km from Kindu, 22.iv.1914 (L. Burgeon),
one specimen. |