Leptanilloides

Genus of ants

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. ^ a b Donoso, Vieira & Wild (2006), p. 48.
  4. ^ Brown (1975).
  5. ^ Bolton (1990a, 1990b)
  6. ^ Baroni Urbani, Bolton & Ward (1992).
  7. ^ Brady et al. (2014).
  • Baroni Urbani, C.; Bolton, B.; Ward, P.S. (1992). "The internal phylogeny of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Systematic Entomology. 17 (4): 301–329. Bibcode:1992SysEn..17..301U. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1992.tb00553.x. S2CID 85367289.
  • Bolton, B. (1990a). "Abdominal characters and status of the cerapachyine ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)". Journal of Natural History. 24 (1): 53–68. Bibcode:1990JNatH..24...53B. doi:10.1080/00222939000770051.
  • Bolton, B. (1990b). "Army ants reassessed: the phylogeny and classification of the doryline section (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)". Journal of Natural History. 24 (6): 1339–1364. Bibcode:1990JNatH..24.1339B. doi:10.1080/00222939000770811.
  • Brady, Seán G.; Fisher, Brian L.; Schultz, Ted R.; Ward, Philip S. (2014). "The rise of army ants and their relatives: diversification of specialized predatory doryline ants". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14 (1). 93. Bibcode:2014BMCEE..14...93B. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-14-93. PMC 4021219. PMID 24886136.
  • Brown, W.L. (1975). "Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini". Agriculture. 5. Ithaca, New York: 1–115.
  • This article incorporates text from a scholarly publication published under a copyright license that allows anyone to reuse, revise, remix and redistribute the materials in any form for any purpose: Donoso, David A.; Vieira, Juan M.; Wild, Alexander L. (2006), "Three new species of Leptanilloides Mann from Andean Ecuador (Formicidae: Leptanilloidinae)" (PDF), Zootaxa, 1201: 47–62, doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1201.1.2, S2CID 14031121 Please check the source for the exact licensing terms.
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