Leptanilla revelierii

Leptanilla revelierii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Leptanillinae
Tribe:	Leptanillini
Genus:	Leptanilla
Species:	L. revelierii
Binomial name
	Leptanilla revelierii; Emery, 1870 Specimen Label
Synonyms
	Laptanilla revelierei chobauti Emery, 1899; Leptanilla revelierei bimaculata Emery, 1899; Leptanilla revelierei sardoa Emery, 1916;

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 42.9° to 31.018417°.


North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Oriental Region: Nepal.
Palaearctic Region: France (type locality), Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Spain.

Distribution based on AntMaps

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.

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.

Biology

Castes

Images from AntWeb


Worker. Specimen code casent0006788. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Qian et al. (2024), Fig. 23: Leptanilla revelierii 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 (2023), CASENT 0006788, photos by April Nobile.

Nomenclature

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

revelierii. Leptanilla revelierii Emery, 1870: 196, pl. 2, figs. 2, 7 (w.q.) FRANCE (Corsica). Senior synonym of bimaculata, chobauti, sardoa: Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 437.
bimaculata. Leptanilla revelierei var. bimaculata Emery, 1899b: 20, fig. (w.) FRANCE (Corsica). Junior synonym of revelierii: Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 437.
chobauti. Laptanilla revelierei subsp. chobauti Emery, 1899b: 20 (w.) MOROCCO. Junior synonym of revelierii: Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 437.
sardoa. Leptanilla revelierei subsp. sardoa Emery, 1916b: 97 (diagnosis in key), fig. 8 (w.) ITALY (Sardinia). Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1965: 27 (l.). Junior synonym of revelierii: Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 437.

Description

References

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Emery, C. 1870. Studi mirmecologici. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 2: 193-201 (page 196, pl.2, figs. 2, 7 worker, queen described)
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