Review of the ant genus Aenictus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia with notes on A. ceylonicus (Mayr) Author Shattuck, Steven O. text Zootaxa 2008 1926 1 19 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.184817 e5c56f88-2105-49a1-99e0-39eb486f9c64 1175-5326 184817 Aenictus philiporum Wilson ( Figs 15–17 , 28 ) Aenictus philiporum Wilson, 1964 : 473 , fig. 74. Types . Holotype worker and 5 paratype workers from Iron Range, Queensland (MCZC, examined). Diagnosis. Head capsule smooth posteriorly and weakly punctate between the frontal carinae and above the mandibular insertions; pronotum with large smooth areas dorsally and laterally, other areas micro-reticulate. Worker Description. Mandible broad, triangular, with 6–9 widely spaced short teeth; anterior clypeal border broadly convex, even with or slightly posterior to anterior margin of frontal lobes; parafrontal ridges present; subpetiolar process weakly developed, broadly rounded anteriorly, flat posteriorly; head smooth laterally, remainder weakly to moderately punctate; posterior section of pronotum and entire mesonotum completely smooth to very weakly reticulate; anterior of pronotum, mesopleuron and entire propodeum weakly punctuate; body red-brown, head, antennae and legs lighter yellow-red. Measurements. Worker ( n = 10) - CI 88–94; HL 0.66–0.71; HW 0.59–0.67; MTL 0.47–0.57; ML 0.96– 1.06; SI 83–89; SL 0.52–0.59. Material examined. Australia : Queensland : Claudie River, Iron Range (Monteith,G.) ( ANIC ). Papua New Guinea : Morobe : Bulolo (Lowery,B.B.) ( ANIC ). Comments. This rare species has been collected only a limited number of times on Cape York Peninsula, Queensland and in eastern Papua New Guinea . Nothing is known concerning its biology.