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Subfamily: Leptanillinae

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Subfamily: Leptanillinae

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

2 tribes, 6 genera, 59 species

Leptanillini Emery, 1910b PDF: 32 Type-genus: Leptanilla. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Leptanillinae as family: Bernard, 1951c: 1053 [Leptanillidae].
Leptanillinae as subfamily of Formicidae: Wheeler, 1923g: 335; Wheeler, 1928 PDF: 89 (in text); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1930 PDF: 199; Clark, 1951 PDF: 16; Brown, 1954e: 28; Petersen, 1968 PDF: 577; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1972a PDF: 37; Brown, 1973b: 166; all subsequent authors.
Leptanillinae as leptanillomorph subfamily of Formicidae: Bolton, 2003 PDF: 39, 151.
Leptanillinae as subfamily incertae sedis in Formicidae: Ward, 2007C PDF: 555.
Tribes of Leptanillinae: Anomalomyrmini, Leptanillini.
Subfamily and tribes references
Emery, 1904a PDF: 107 (anatomy, affinities); Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 138 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1928 PDF: 85 (larva); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1930 PDF: 199 (diagnosis); Morley, 1939 PDF: 114 (phylogeny); Kutter, 1948 PDF: 293 (diagnosis); Brown, 1954e: 28 (phylogeny); Bernard, 1967a PDF: 90 (diagnosis); Petersen, 1968 PDF: 577 (tribe, males); Gotwald, 1969: 97 (mouthparts morphology); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1972a PDF: 37 (diagnosis); Brown, 1973b: 166 (genera, distribution); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1976b PDF: 46 (larvae, review & synthesis); Baroni Urbani, 1977c PDF: 430 (diagnosis, revision); Snelling, 1981: 392 (synoptic classification); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b PDF: 257 (synoptic classification); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79 (synoptic classification); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 9 onward (synoptic classification, genera keys); Bolton, 1990b PDF: 269 (diagnosis, revision of tribes, synoptic classification, key); Kugler, 1992 PDF: 103 (sting structure); Baroni Urbani, Bolton & Ward, 1992 PDF: 316, 317 (phylogeny); Bolton, 1994: 69 (diagnosis, synoptic classification, genera key); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1040 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 9, 12 (catalogue); Ogata, Terayama & Masuko, 1995 PDF: 32 (genera, classification); Shattuck, 1999: 117 (Australia, synopsis); Bolton, 2003 PDF: 39, 151 (diagnosis, synopsis); Ouellette, Fisher, et al. 2006: 359 (phylogeny) ; Terayama, 2009 PDF: 125 (Taiwan genera key); Borowiec, et al. 2011: 13 (genera key); Keller, 2011 PDF: 1 (morphology, phylogeny); General & Alpert, 2012 PDF: 73 (Philippines genera key).
Subfamily and tribes references
Emery, 1904a PDF: 107 (anatomy, affinities); Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 138 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1928 PDF: 85 (larva); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1930 PDF: 199 (diagnosis); Morley, 1939 PDF: 114 (phylogeny); Kutter, 1948 PDF: 293 (diagnosis); Brown, 1954e: 28 (phylogeny); Bernard, 1967a PDF: 90 (diagnosis); Petersen, 1968 PDF: 577 (tribe, males); Gotwald, 1969: 97 (mouthparts morphology); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1972a PDF: 37 (diagnosis); Brown, 1973b: 166 (genera, distribution); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1976b PDF: 46 (larvae, review & synthesis); Baroni Urbani, 1977c PDF: 430 (diagnosis, revision); Snelling, 1981: 392 (synoptic classification); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b PDF: 257 (synoptic classification); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79 (synoptic classification); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 9 onward (synoptic classification, genera keys); Bolton, 1990b PDF: 269 (diagnosis, revision of tribes, synoptic classification, key); Kugler, 1992 PDF: 103 (sting structure); Baroni Urbani, Bolton & Ward, 1992 PDF: 316, 317 (phylogeny); Bolton, 1994: 69 (diagnosis, synoptic classification, genera key); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1040 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 9, 12 (catalogue); Ogata, Terayama & Masuko, 1995 PDF: 32 (genera, classification); Shattuck, 1999: 117 (Australia, synopsis); Bolton, 2003 PDF: 39, 151 (diagnosis, synopsis); Ouellette, Fisher, et al. 2006: 359 (phylogeny) ; Terayama, 2009 PDF: 125 (Taiwan genera key); Borowiec, et al. 2011: 13 (genera key); Keller, 2011 PDF: 1 (morphology, phylogeny); General & Alpert, 2012 PDF: 73 (Philippines genera key); Xu, 2012c: 479 (genera key).

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