Leptanilla nana

Leptanilla nana Santschi, 1915 valid

Leptanilla nana Santschi, 1915a: 55, fig. 2 (w.) TUNISIA. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Tunisia: Kairouan, ii.,iii.1915 (F. Santschi). Primary type depositories: MCZC, MHNG, MSNG, NHMB. Type notes: 1) Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 467, cites 16 worker syntypes (1 MCZC, 3 MHNG, 3 MSNG, 9 NHMB). 2) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 71, cites 9 worker syntypes in NHMB.

Status as species: Yasumatsu, 1960: 19; Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 466 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 229; Borowiec, 2014: 97; 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.
Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. 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
Santschi, F. 1915a. Nouvelles fourmis d'Algérie, Tunisie et Syrie. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 6:54-63. PDF
Yasumatsu, K. 1960. The occurrence of the subfamily Leptanillinae in Japan (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Esakia 1:17-20. PDF