Leptanilloides
Genus of ants
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Leptanilloides is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dorylinae.[3] Leptanilloides is an uncommonly collected genus with subterranean habits in the New World Andean and sub-Andean tropics.[4]
| Leptanilloides | |
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| Leptanilloides biconstricta worker from Bolivia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
| Genus: | Leptanilloides Mann, 1923 |
| Type species | |
| Leptanilloides biconstricta Mann, 1923 | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 19 species | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Taxonomy
With cryptic and eyeless worker ants, the genus was included in the ant subfamily Cerapachyinae[5][6] until the establishment of a separate subfamily, Leptanilloidinae,[7] hypothesized as the sister group to the Cerapachyinae and all other members of the dorylomorphs.[4] However, they were synonymized with the previous dorylomorph subfamilies (including the Leptanilloidinae) under Dorylinae.[8]
Species
- Leptanilloides amazonus (Brandão et al., 1999)
- Leptanilloides anae (Brandão et al., 1999)
- Leptanilloides atlanticus Silva et al., 2013
- Leptanilloides biconstrictus Mann, 1923
- Leptanilloides caracola Donoso et al., 2006
- Leptanilloides chihuahuaensis MacGown et al., 2015
- Leptanilloides copalinga Delsinne & Donoso, 2015
- Leptanilloides erinys Borowiec & Longino, 201
- Leptanilloides femoralis Borowiec & Longino, 2011
- Leptanilloides golbachi (Kusnezov, 1953)
- Leptanilloides gracilis Borowiec & Longino, 2011
- Leptanilloides improvisus Brandão et al., 1999
- Leptanilloides legionarius Brandão et al., 1999
- Leptanilloides manauara (Brandão et al., 1999)
- Leptanilloides mckennae Longino, 2003
- Leptanilloides nomadus Donoso et al., 2006
- Leptanilloides nubecula Donoso et al., 2006
- Leptanilloides prometeus Delsinne & Donoso, 2015
- Leptanilloides sculpturatus Brandão et al., 1999
