Anochetus chirichinii Emery

Wilson EO, 1959, Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia V. The tribe Odontomachini., Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 120, pp. 483-510 : 505-506

Anochetus chirichinii Emery

Anochetus Chirichinii Emery, 1897, Természetr. Fiiz., 20:597, pi. 15, figs. 46, 47, worker. Type locality: Hansemann Mts., N-E. New Guinea. (Syntype examined - Emery Coll.)

Material examined. N-E. NEW GUINEA : Hansemann Mts., near Madang (syntype) ; Nadzab (Wilson, nos. 1088, 1101, 1107) ; lower Busu River (Wilson, nos. 999, 1051, 1112).

Ecological notes. The collections so far recorded indicate that A. chirichinii is relatively abundant in both rain forest and monsoon forest. At the Busu River and Nadzab, workers were encountered on several occasions foraging during the day on the forest floor. A male tentatively determined as chirichinii was collected at light on May 16, 1955, at the Busu River.