Leptanilloides | |
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Leptanilloides biconstricta worker from Bolivia | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
Genus: |
Leptanilloides Mann, 1923 |
Type species | |
Leptanilloides biconstricta Mann, 1923
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Diversity [1] | |
12 species |
Leptanilloides is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dorylinae. [2] Leptanilloides is an uncommonly collected genus with subterranean habits in the New World Andean and sub-Andean tropics. [3]
With cryptic and eyeless worker ants, the genus was included in the ant subfamily Cerapachyinae [4] [5] until the establishment of a separate subfamily, Leptanilloidinae, [6] hypothesized as the sister group to the Cerapachyinae and all other members of the dorylomorphs. [3] However, they were synonymized with the previous dorylomorph subfamilies (including the Leptanilloidinae) under Dorylinae. [7]
Leptanilloides | |
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Leptanilloides biconstricta worker from Bolivia | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
Genus: |
Leptanilloides Mann, 1923 |
Type species | |
Leptanilloides biconstricta Mann, 1923
| |
Diversity [1] | |
12 species |
Leptanilloides is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dorylinae. [2] Leptanilloides is an uncommonly collected genus with subterranean habits in the New World Andean and sub-Andean tropics. [3]
With cryptic and eyeless worker ants, the genus was included in the ant subfamily Cerapachyinae [4] [5] until the establishment of a separate subfamily, Leptanilloidinae, [6] hypothesized as the sister group to the Cerapachyinae and all other members of the dorylomorphs. [3] However, they were synonymized with the previous dorylomorph subfamilies (including the Leptanilloidinae) under Dorylinae. [7]