Leptanillini
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| Leptanillini | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Leptanillinae |
| Tribe: | Leptanillini Emery, 1910 |
| Type genus | |
| Leptanilla | |
| Diversity | |
| 4 genera 52 species | |
Contents
Identification
List of Genera
Extant Genera
Fossil Genera
No fossil genera within tribe.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- LEPTANILLINI [tribe of Leptanillinae]
- Leptanillini Emery, 1910b: 32. Type-genus: Leptanilla Emery, 1870: 196.
Taxonomic History
- Leptanillini as tribe of Dorylinae: Emery, 1910b: 32; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 138 [Leptanillii]; Arnold, 1915: 113; Emery, 1916b: 94; Forel, 1917: 240; Bondroit, 1918: 16; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 633.
- Leptanillini as tribe of Leptanillinae: Wheeler, W.M. 1923f: 335; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 17; Bolton, 1990b: 276; Bolton, 1994: 70; Bolton, 2003: 40, 152.
