• 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

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• 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.
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