• Status as species: Onoyama, 1980a: 199; Morisita et al., 1989: 36; Bolton, 1995b: 229; Imai et al., 2003: 184; Hosoishi et al., 2014: 25; Leong et al., 2018: 10 (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
• 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
• Hosoishi, S.; Kanao, T.; Ogata, K. 2014. Rediscovery and DNA sequencing of Leptanilla tanakai Baroni Urbani (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Yakushima Island, Japan. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 20:25-26. 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