Species Leptanilla swani Wheeler, 1932

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• Leptanilla swani Wheeler, W.M. 1932. An Australian Leptanilla. Psyche (Cambridge) 39: 53-58 [54].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) WAM 32–1252 to 32–1254 *W, Goyamin Pool, Chittering, WA; MCZ *W,Q, Goyamin Pool, Chittering, WA.

 

Introduction

Placed in the Leptanilla revelierii species group by Griebenow (2024) who suggested there may be additional undescribed species of Leptanilla in Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Most common in northern Australia with scattered records from southwest WA, western NSW and eastern SA, and the ACT - these may represent more than one species, also Barrow Island, WA

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Nomadic, open forest, predator, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in ground layer.

 

General References

Griebenow, Z. 2024. Systematic revision of the ant subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1189: 83-184 [144]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-May-2023	FORMICIDAE Latreille, 1809	14-May-2024	MODIFIED
23-Mar-2015	FORMICIDAE	27-Mar-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
07-Aug-2012		25-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		18-Oct-2011	MODIFIED
		25-May-2010	MODIFIED