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
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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.