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Genus: Leptanilla   Emery, 1870 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

46 species

Leptanilla Emery, 1870 PDF: 196. Type-species: Leptanilla revelierii, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Leptanilla in Dorylinae: Emery, 1870 PDF: 196 [Dorylidae]; Emery, 1904a PDF: 116.
Leptanilla in Myrmicinae: Emery, 1877b PDF: 81 [Myrmicidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879a: 456 [Myrmicidae]; Emery, 1882a: 268 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 72.
Leptanilla in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini: Emery, 1895l PDF: 769.
Leptanilla in Myrmicinae, Stenammini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 383.
Leptanilla in Dorylinae, Leptanillini: Emery, 1910b PDF: 32; Wheeler, 1910a: 138; Forel, 1917 PDF: 240; Wheeler, 1922: 636.
Leptanilla in Leptanillinae, Leptanillini: Wheeler, 1923g: 335; Wheeler, 1928 PDF: 89; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 656; Baroni Urbani, 1977c PDF: 433; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b PDF: 256; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Bolton, 1990b PDF: 276; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 12; Bolton, 1994: 70; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 152.
Genus Leptanilla references
Emery, 1882a: 268 (Europe & Algeria species); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 72 (catalogue); Emery, 1904a PDF: 107 (anatomy, affinities); Emery, 1910b PDF: 32 (diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1916a PDF: 94 (Italy species); Bondroit, 1918 (France & Belgium species key); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1930 PDF: 200 (catalogue); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 17 (Asia checklist); Baroni Urbani, 1977c PDF: 434 (diagnosis, all species revision, key); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 53 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 34 (Australia checklist); Morisita, Kubota, Onoyama, et al. 1989: 35 (Japan species key); Ogata, Terayama & Masuko, 1995 PDF: 32 (diagnosis, males); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1050 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 229 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 117 (Australia synopsis); Xu & Zhang, 2002 PDF: 142 and Xu, 2002A PDF: 116 (China species key); Bharti & Kumar, 2012 PDF: 624 (Oriental species key);. Wong & Guénard, 2016 10.3897/zookeys.551.6686 PDF: 129 (Oriental species key).

Taxon Page Images:


Leptanilla sp. Kibale forest, Uganda. This genus contains some of the smallest ants in the world.
Image © Alex Wild.

Leptanilla sp.Queen,Workers and brood. Western Ghats Kerala, India. Image Dr Kalesh Sadasivan 2016

Leptanilla sp.Queen, Western Ghats Kerala, India. Image Dr Kalesh Sadasivan 2016

Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Oceania, Palearctic bioregions.

Afrotropical Region: Africa, Eastern, Eastern Cape, Ghana, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa, Southern Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Western Africa
Australasia Region: Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Australian Capital Territory, Central, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia
Indomalaya Region: Asia, Borneo, Central, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Selangor, Singapore, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tamil Nadu, Thailand, Yunnan
Oceania Region: Melanesia, Palau
Palearctic Region: Algeria, China, Corsica, Eastern Asia, Europe, France, Himachal Pradesh, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kairouan, Kanagawa, Kochi, Malta, Morocco, Northern Africa, Portugal, Sardegna, Southern Europe, Spain, Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceïma, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Western Asia, Western Europe, Yemen


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