Leptanillinae
Emery, 1910
valid
- Leptanillinae as family: Bernard, 1951c: 1053 [Leptanillidae].
- Leptanillinae as subfamily of Formicidae: Wheeler, 1923g: 335; Wheeler, 1928: 89 (in text); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1930: 199; Clark, 1951: 16; Brown, 1954e: 28; Petersen, 1968: 577; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1972a: 37; Brown, 1973b: 166; all subsequent authors.
- Leptanillinae as leptanillomorph subfamily of Formicidae: Bolton, 2003: 39, 151.
- Leptanillinae as subfamily incertae sedis in Formicidae: Ward, 2007c: 555.
Subfamily and tribes references
Emery, 1904a: 107 (anatomy, affinities); Wheeler, 1910a: 138 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1928: 85 (larva); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1930: 199 (diagnosis); Morley, 1939: 114 (phylogeny); Kutter, 1948: 293 (diagnosis); Brown, 1954e: 28 (phylogeny); Bernard, 1967a: 90 (diagnosis); Petersen, 1968: 577 (tribe, males); Gotwald, 1969b: 97 (mouthparts morphology); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1972a: 37 (diagnosis); Brown, 1973b: 166 (genera, distribution); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1976b: 46 (larvae, review & synthesis); Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 430 (diagnosis, revision); Snelling, 1981: 392 (synoptic classification); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 257 (synoptic classification); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79 (synoptic classification); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 9 onward (synoptic classification, genera keys); Bolton, 1990b: 269 (diagnosis, revision of tribes, synoptic classification, key); Kugler, 1992: 103 (sting structure); Baroni Urbani et al., 1992: 316, 317 (phylogeny); Bolton, 1994: 69 (diagnosis, synoptic classification, genera key); Bolton, 1995a: 1040 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 9, 12 (catalogue); Ogata et al., 1995: 32 (genera, classification); Shattuck, 1999: 117 (Australia, synopsis); Bolton, 2003: 39, 151 (diagnosis, synopsis); Ouellette et al., 2006: 359 (phylogeny) ; Terayama, 2009: 125 (Taiwan genera key); Borowiec et al., 2011: 13 (genera key); Keller, 2011: 1 (morphology, phylogeny); General & Alpert, 2012: 73 (Philippines genera key); Xu, 2012c: 479 (genera key); Boudinot, 2015: 29 (male diagnosis, classification); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 49 (worker diagnosis); Griebenow, 2020: 235 (phylogeny, diagnosis, tribal revision, key to known males)
Citations
- Baroni Urbani, C. 1977c. Materiali per una revisione della sottofamiglia Leptanillinae Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomologica Basiliensia 2:427-488. PDF
- Baroni Urbani, C.; Bolton, B.; Ward, P. S. 1992. The internal phylogeny of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 17:301-329. PDF
- Bernard, F. 1951c. Hyménoptères, super-famille des Formicoidea Ashmead 1905. Pp. 997-1104 in: Grassé, P. P. (ed.) 1951. Traité de Zoologie. Tome X. Fasc. II. Paris: Masson et Cie, pp. 976-1948.
- Bernard, F. 1967a ("1968"). Faune de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen. 3. Les fourmis (Hymenoptera Formicidae) d'Europe occidentale et septentrionale. Paris: Masson, 411 pp. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1990b. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 15:267-282. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp.
- Bolton, B. 1995a. A taxonomic and zoogeographical census of the extant ant taxa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 29:1037-1056. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
- Borowiec, M. L.; Schulz, A.; Alpert, G. D.; Baňař, P. 2011. Discovery of the worker caste and descriptions of two new species of Anomalomyrma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae) with unique abdominal morphology. Zootaxa 2810:1-14. PDF
- Boudinot, B. E. 2015. Contributions to the knowledge of Formicidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata): a new diagnosis of the family, the first global male-based key to subfamilies, and a treatment of early branching lineages. European Journal of Taxonomy 120:1-62. PDF
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1954e. Remarks on the internal phylogeny and subfamily classification of the family Formicidae. Insectes Sociaux 1:21-31. PDF
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1973b. A comparison of the Hylean and Congo-West African rain forest ant faunas. Pp. 161-185 in: Meggers, B. J.; Ayensu, E. S.; Duckworth, W. D. (eds.) 1973. Tropical forest ecosystems in Africa and South America: a comparative review. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, viii + 350 pp. PDF
- Clark, J. 1951. The Formicidae of Australia. Vol. 1. Subfamily Myrmeciinae. Melbourne: CSIRO, 230 pp. PDF
- Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. [In Russian.]. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) 1988. Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp.
- Emery, C. 1904a. Le affinità del genere Leptanilla e i limiti delle Dorylinae. Archivio Zoologico Italiano 2:107-116. PDF
- Emery, C. 1910b. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dorylinae. Genera Insectorum 102:1-34. PDF
- Fisher, B. L.; Bolton, B. 2016. Ants of Africa and Madagascar A Guide to the Genera. Berkeley: University of California Press, i-ix, 1-503.
- General, D. E. M.; Alpert, G. D. 2012. A synoptic review of the ant genera (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Philippines. ZooKeys 200:1-111. PDF
- Gotwald, W. H., Jr. 1969b. Comparative morphological studies of the ants, with particular reference to the mouthparts (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Memoirs of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station 408:1-150. PDF
- Griebenow, Z. 2020. Delimitation of tribes in the subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a description of the male of Protanilla lini Terayama, 2009. Myrmecological News 30:229-250. 10.25849/myrmecol.news_030:229 PDF
- Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp.
- Keller, R. A. 2011. A phylogenetic analysis of ant morphology (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with special reference to the poneromorph subfamilies. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 355:1-90. PDF
- Kugler, C. 1992. Stings of ants of the Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 99:103-115. PDF
- Kutter, H. 1948. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Leptanillinae (Hym. Formicidae). Eine neue Ameisengattung aus Süd-Indien. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 21:286-295. PDF
- Morley, B. D. W. 1939. The phylogeny of the Cerapachyinae, Dorylinae, and Leptanillinae (Hym. Formicidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 44:114-118. PDF
- Ogata, K.; Terayama, M.; Masuko, K. 1995. The ant genus Leptanilla: discovery of the worker-associated male of L. japonica, and a description of a new species from Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae). Systematic Entomology 20:27-34. PDF
- Ouellette, G. D.; Fisher, B. L.; Girman, D. J. 2006. Molecular systematics of basal subfamilies of ants using 28S rRNA (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 40:359-369. PDF
- Petersen, B. 1968. Some novelties in presumed males of Leptanillinae (Hym., Formicidae). Entomologiske Meddelelser 36:577-598. PDF
- Shattuck, S. O. 1999. Australian ants. Their biology and identification. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, xi + 226 pp.
- Snelling, R. R. 1981. Systematics of social Hymenoptera. Pp. 369-453 in: Hermann, H. R. (ed.) 1981. Social insects. Volume 2. New York: Academic Press, xiii + 491 pp.
- Terayama, M. 2009. A synopsis of the family Formicidae of Taiwan (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Research Bulletin of Kanto Gakuen University. Liberal Arts 17:81-266. PDF
- Ward, P. S. 2007c. Phylogeny, classification, and species-level taxonomy of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1668:549-563. PDF
- Wheeler, G. C. 1928. The larva of Leptanilla (Hym.: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 35:85-91. PDF
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, E. W. 1930. Two new ants from Java. Psyche (Cambridge) 37:193-201. PDF
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1972a. The subfamilies of Formicidae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 74:35-45. PDF
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1976b. Ant larvae: review and synthesis. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington 7:1-108. PDF
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1985b. A simplified conspectus of the Formicidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 111:255-264. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1923g. Social life among the insects. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., vii + 375 pp.
- Xu, Z.-H. 2012c. Furcotanilla, a new genus of the ant subfamily Leptanillinae from China with descriptions of two new species of Protanilla and P. rafflesi Taylor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 59:477-491. PDF
Extant: 2 valid tribes, 7 valid genera (3 synonyms), 68 valid species (1 synonym, 2 unavailable, 4 obsolete combinations)