Leptanilla kubotai

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Leptanilla kubotai Baroni Urbani, 1977 valid

Leptanilla kubotai Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 444, figs. 6, 8 (w.) JAPAN. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Japan: Shikoku, Kochi Pref., Kochi, Hiro-okakami, 29.iii.1967 (M. Kubota). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps KUPC). Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 30 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, KUPC, NHMB. Type notes: 1) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 71, cites 8 worker paratypes in NHMB. 2) Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 444, says that the holotype + 20 paratypes were returned to Kubota (KUPC) for deposition in Japanese institutions.

Terayama & Kinomura, 2015: 17 (eq.)
Status as species: Onoyama, 1980a: 199; Morisita et al., 1989: 36; Bolton, 1995b: 229; Imai et al., 2003: 184; Leong et al., 2018: 12 (in key); 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
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Griebenow, Z. 2024. Systematic revision of the ant subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1189:83-184. [online early] 10.3897/zookeys.1189.107506 PDF
Imai, H. T.; Kihara, A.; Kondoh, M.; Kubota, M.; Kuribayashi, S.; Ogata, K.; Onoyama, K.; Taylor, R. W.; Terayama, M.; Tsukii, Y.; Yoshimura, M.; Ugawa, Y. 2003. Ants of Japan. Tokyo: Gakken, 224 pp. 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
Morisita, M.; Kubota, M.; Onoyama, K.; Ogata, K.; Terayama, M.; Kondoh, M.; Imai, H. T. 1989. A guide for the identification of Japanese ants. I. Ponerinae, Cerapachyinae, Pseudomyrmecinae, Dorylinae, and Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). [In Japanese.]. Tokyo: Myrmecological Society of Japan, 42 pp.
Onoyama, K. 1980a. An introduction to the ant fauna of Japan, with a check list (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Kontyû 48:193-212. PDF
Terayama, M.; Kinomura, K. 2015. Rediscovery of Leptanilla kubotai Baroni Urbani (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Kochi Prefecture, Japan, with a description of queen. Ari 37:17-22. PDF

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