Leptanilloides

Leptanilloides
Leptanilloides biconstricta worker from Bolivia
Scientific 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. 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.

External links

• Media related to Leptanilloides at Wikimedia Commons