Leptanilla alexandri

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Leptanilla alexandri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Leptanillinae
Tribe: Leptanillini
Genus: Leptanilla
Species: L. alexandri
Binomial name
Leptanilla alexandri
Dlussky, 1969

Identification

  • Griebenow (2024), Figure 60. Dorsal outline of the penial sclerites (red) in the Leptanilla revelierii species group, diagrammatic, after Griebenow (2020: fig. 13G). A, Leptanilla alexandri. B, Leptanilla japonica.

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Uzbekistan (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

Known only from males.

Nomenclature

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

  • alexandri. Leptanilla alexandri Dlussky, 1969b: 1667, fig. 1 (m.) UZBEKISTAN.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Baroni Urbani C. 1977. Materiali per una revisione della sottofamiglia Leptanillinae Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomologica Basiliensia 2: 427-488.