Leptanilla havilandi

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Leptanilla havilandi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Leptanillinae
Tribe: Leptanillini
Genus: Leptanilla
Species: L. havilandi
Binomial name
Leptanilla havilandi
Forel, 1901

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Specimen labels

Identification

  • Griebenow (2024), Figure 18. Metacoxal foramen of Leptanilla havilandi (CASENT0010809), ventral view, worker. Scale bar: 0.05 mm.
  • Griebenow (2024), Figure 27. Antennal torulus in Leptanilla thai (A) and Leptanilla havilandi (B), worker. Scale bars: 0.04 mm (A); 0.05 mm (B).

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Singapore (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.
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Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.
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Biology

Castes

  • Qian et al. (2024), Fig. 31: Leptanilla havilandi type worker. (A, D) head in full-face view; (B, E) body in lateral view; (C, F) body in dorsal view. (A - C) illustrations redrawn from Baroni Urbani (1977); (D - F) images from AntWeb (2022), CASENT 0101455, photos by April Nobile.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • havilandi. Leptanilla havilandi Forel, 1901e: 373 (w.) SINGAPORE. See also: Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 452.

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Zolessi, L.C. de and Y.P. de Abenante. 1973. Nidification y mesoetologia de Acromyrmex en el Uruguay III. Acromyrmex (A.) hispidus Santschi 1925 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Revista de Biologia del Uruguay 1(2):151-165