Aenictus maneerati Jaitrong & Yamane, 2013

Liu, Cong, Guenard, Benoit, Garcia, Francisco Hita, Yamane, Seiki, Blanchard, Benjamin, Yang, Da-Rong & Economo, Evan, 2015, New records of ant species from Yunnan, China, ZooKeys 477, pp. 17-78 : 20-21

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Formicidae

Aenictus maneerati Jaitrong & Yamane, 2013 Figure 3

Material examined.

CHINA, Yunnan, Xishuangbanna: XTBG (21.916°N, 101.274°E), Secondary forest, 08.vi.2013, 1 worker, 615m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu .

Distribution.

Yunnan (new record), Vietnam and Thailand (Figure 3 C). Our material represents the northern-most record of Aenictus hodgsoni .

Taxonomic note.

Aenictus hodgsoni belongs to the Aenictus ceylonicus species group and can be easily identified with the identification key provided by Jaitrong and Yamane (2013).

Natural history.

Little is known about the bionomics of Aenictus hodgsoni . Before our survey, it has been only collected from primary forest ( Jaitrong and Yamane 2013). We collected it from leaf litter in secondary forest.