W. L. Brown, Jr.
The Army Ant Aenictus exiguus Clark a Synonym.
Psyche 64(1):5, 1957.

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19571 Kannowski - Leptothorax provancheri 5 CREIGHTON, W. S.
1950. The ants of North America. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll. 104: 1-585.
KANNOWSKI, P. B.
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The compound and mixed nests of American ants. I. Observa- tions on a new guest ant. Amer. Nat. 35: 431-448. 1903a. Ethological observations on an American ant (Leptothorax emersoni Wheeler). Arch. Psycol. Neurol. 2 : 1-31. 1903b. A revision of the North American ants of the genus Lepto- thorax Mayr. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 55: 215-260. THE ARMY ANT AENICTUS EXIGUUS CLARK A SYNONYM. The description and figure of Aenictus exiguus Clark, 1934, Mem. Nat. Mus. Vict., Melbourne, 8:21, pi. 2, fig. 1, worker (type loc. : Cairns district, northern Queensland) agree well enough with samples from Queensland, New South Wales, and New Guinea of Aenictus turner! Forel, 1900, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., 44: 75, worker (type loc.: Mackay, Queensland), except for the low measurement ("1.7 mm.") given by Clark for his types. This measure- ment, like others that have been checked from Clark's ant descriptions, appears to be excessively small, even for such a size-variable species as turneri. Particular similar- ities in the critical characters of head and mandible form, and shape of propodeurn and ventral process of petiole, all indicate that Ae. exiguus must be considered a new synonym of Ae. turneri. Brown, 1952, Psyche, 58: 123, had already placed Ae. deuqueti Crawley as a synonym of Ae. turner! after examining type material. - W. L. BROWN, JR., Museum of Comparative Zoology.
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