Leptanilloides
Leptanilloides biconstricta worker from Bolivia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dorylinae
Genus: Leptanilloides
Mann, 1923
Type species
Leptanilloides biconstricta
Mann, 1923
Diversity[1]
12 species

Leptanilloides is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dorylinae.[2] Leptanilloides is an uncommonly collected genus with subterranean habits in the New World Andean and sub-Andean tropics.[3]

Taxonomy

With cryptic and eyeless worker ants, the genus was included in the ant subfamily Cerapachyinae[4][5] until the establishment of a separate subfamily, Leptanilloidinae,[6] hypothesized as the sister group to the Cerapachyinae and all other members of the dorylomorphs.[3] However, they were synonymized with the previous dorylomorph subfamilies (including the Leptanilloidinae) under Dorylinae.[7]

Species

  • Leptanilloides atlantica Silva, Feitosa, Brandão & Freitas, 2013
  • Leptanilloides biconstricta Mann, 1923
  • Leptanilloides caracola Donoso, Vieira & Wild, 2006
  • Leptanilloides erinys Borowiec & Longino, 201
  • Leptanilloides femoralis Borowiec & Longino, 2011
  • Leptanilloides gracilis Borowiec & Longino, 2011
  • Leptanilloides improvisa Brandão, Diniz, Agosti & Delabie, 1999
  • Leptanilloides legionaria Brandão, Diniz, Agosti & Delabie, 1999
  • Leptanilloides mckennae Longino, 2003
  • Leptanilloides nomada Donoso, Vieira & Wild, 2006
  • Leptanilloides nubecula Donoso, Vieira & Wild, 2006
  • Leptanilloides sculpturata Brandão, Diniz, Agosti & Delabie, 1999

See also

  • Amyrmex, sister genus of Leptanilloides

References

  1. Bolton, B. (2014). "Leptanilloides". AntCat. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  2. "Genus: Leptanilloides". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
  3. 1 2 Donoso, Vieira & Wild (2006), p. 48.
  4. Brown (1975).
  5. Bolton (1990a, 1990b)
  6. Baroni Urbani, Bolton & Ward (1992).
  7. Brady et al. (2014).


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