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Title	A new species of the army ant genus Aenictus from Taiwan (Insecta; Hymenoptera; Formicidae).

Book/Journal	Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan

Author	Mamoru Terayama

Edition		Volume	39	Number	(2)	Page	13-16

Publisher	The Biogeographical Society of Japan
Publisher	The Biogeographical Society of Japan

Year	1984	Month	12

ISBN		ISSN	0067-8716

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Remarks	A new species of the genus Aenictus from Taiwan, Aenictus lifuiae sp. nov., is described and illustrated based on the worker and male. The diagnosis of this species of worker caste is shown as follows: Size small (head length 0.55-0.58 mm, head width 0.48-0.50 mm), antennae 10-segmented, mandibles subtriangular with 7-teeth, scapes short (scape length 0.35-0.38 mm), promesonotum and propodeum in profile convex, anteriormost of propodeum dipping and posterior corner angulate, and subpetiolar process low and rounded.

Remarks

A new species of the genus Aenictus from Taiwan, Aenictus lifuiae sp. nov., is described and illustrated based on the worker and male. The diagnosis of this species of worker caste is shown as follows: Size small (head length 0.55-0.58 mm, head width 0.48-0.50 mm), antennae 10-segmented, mandibles subtriangular with 7-teeth, scapes short (scape length 0.35-0.38 mm), promesonotum and propodeum in profile convex, anteriormost of propodeum dipping and posterior corner angulate, and subpetiolar process low and rounded.

Taxon	Aenictus lifuiae Terayama, 1984

Voucher specimen(s)	HYM-014