Leptanilloides

Leptanilloides
Leptanilloides biconstricta worker from Bolivia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dorylinae
Genus: Leptanilloides
Mann, 1923
Type species
Leptanilloides biconstricta
Mann, 1923
Diversity[1]
19 species
Synonyms[2]
  • Amyrmex Kusnezov, 1953

Leptanilloides is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dorylinae.[3] Leptanilloides is an uncommonly collected genus with subterranean habits in the New World Andean and sub-Andean tropics.[4]

Taxonomy

With cryptic and eyeless worker ants, the genus was included in the ant subfamily Cerapachyinae[5][6] until the establishment of a separate subfamily, Leptanilloidinae,[7] hypothesized as the sister group to the Cerapachyinae and all other members of the dorylomorphs.[4] However, they were synonymized with the previous dorylomorph subfamilies (including the Leptanilloidinae) under Dorylinae.[8]

Species

  • Leptanilloides amazonus (Brandão, Diniz, Agosti & Delabie, 1999)
  • Leptanilloides anae (Brandão, Diniz, Agosti & Delabie, 1999)
  • Leptanilloides atlantica Silva, Feitosa, Brandão & Freitas, 2013
  • Leptanilloides biconstricta Mann, 1923
  • Leptanilloides caracola Donoso, Vieira & Wild, 2006
  • Leptanilloides chihuahuaensis MacGown, Schiefer & Branstetter, 2015
  • Leptanilloides copalinga Delsinne & Donoso, 2015
  • Leptanilloides erinys Borowiec & Longino, 201
  • Leptanilloides femoralis Borowiec & Longino, 2011
  • Leptanilloides golbachi (Kusnezov, 1953)
  • Leptanilloides gracilis Borowiec & Longino, 2011
  • Leptanilloides improvisa Brandão, Diniz, Agosti & Delabie, 1999
  • Leptanilloides legionaria Brandão, Diniz, Agosti & Delabie, 1999
  • Leptanilloides manauara (Brandão, Diniz, Agosti & Delabie, 1999)
  • Leptanilloides mckennae Longino, 2003
  • Leptanilloides nomada Donoso, Vieira & Wild, 2006
  • Leptanilloides nubecula Donoso, Vieira & Wild, 2006
  • Leptanilloides prometeus Delsinne & Donoso, 2015
  • Leptanilloides sculpturata Brandão, Diniz, Agosti & Delabie, 1999

References

  1. ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Leptanilloides". AntCat. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  2. ^ Borowiec, Marek (2016-08-04). "Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)". ZooKeys (608): 1–280. Bibcode:2016ZooK..608....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.608.9427. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 4982377. PMID 27559303.
  3. ^ "Genus: Leptanilloides". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
  4. ^ a b Donoso, Vieira & Wild (2006), p. 48.
  5. ^ Brown (1975).
  6. ^ Bolton (1990a, 1990b)
  7. ^ Baroni Urbani, Bolton & Ward (1992).
  8. ^ Brady et al. (2014).
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