Leptanilla besucheti

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Leptanilla besucheti Baroni Urbani, 1977 valid

Leptanilla besucheti Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 448, figs. 10, 17 (w.) SRI LANKA. Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Sri Lanka: Pidurutalagala, 2200 m., 29.i.1970 (C. Besuchet & I. Löbl). Primary type depository: MHNG. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 12 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MHNG, NHMB. Type notes: Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 72, cites 5 worker paratypes in NHMB.

Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 229; Bharti & Kumar, 2012c: 624 (in key); Wong & Guénard, 2016a: 141 (in key); Leong et al., 2018: 12 (in key); Dias et al., 2020: 59; Griebenow, 2024: 129.

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1977c. Materiali per una revisione della sottofamiglia Leptanillinae Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomologica Basiliensia 2:427-488. PDF
Baroni Urbani, C. 1977e. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel (2. Teil). Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)27:61-102. PDF
Bharti, H.; Kumar, R. 2012c. A new species of Leptanilla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae) with a key to Oriental species. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 62:619-625. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dias, R. K. S.; Guénard, B.; Akbar, S. A.; Economo, E. P.; Udayakantha, W. S.; Wachkoo, A. A. 2020. The ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Sri Lanka: a taxonomic research summary and updated checklist. ZooKeys 967:1-142. 10.3897/zookeys.967.54432 PDF
Griebenow, Z. 2024. Systematic revision of the ant subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1189:83-184. [online early] 10.3897/zookeys.1189.107506 PDF
Leong, C.-M.; Yamane, S.; Guénard, B. 2018. Lost in the city: Discovery of the rare ant genus Leptanilla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Macau with description of Leptanilla macauensis sp. nov. Asian Myrmecology 10:16 pp. e010001. 10.20362/am.010001 PDF
Wong, M. K. L.; Guénard, B. 2016a. Leptanilla hypodracos sp. n., a new species of the cryptic ant genus Leptanilla (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Singapore, with new distribution data and an updated key to Oriental Leptanilla species. ZooKeys 551:129-144. 10.3897/zookeys.551.6686 PDF

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